
A Christmas Carol
In Our Time: Culture
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Is There Anything Left to Say That John Wants of Saying?
Dickens is brilliant at making us experience the story through our emotional responses. He takes us with him, taking us to places and then putting his foot down a little bit more on the pe and the pedal. Dinah and uliet both pointed out that it may not have novelistic psychology, but it has scene changes thatare dramatic. It gives us the sort of like a pantomime audience, when you gasp with surprise at a reveal at a scens f. That's the sort of thing you're getting in dickens. And i would say the power of its sentimentality. I don't thinkt that is a negative thing in the story. But the final point that
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