I like the ending - 读《A Christmas Carol》

I like fancy stories. I also like fiction. Charles Dickens is one of my favorite authors in the world. His fictions are always happy endings, praising virtue and punishing vice. 'A Christmas Carol' is one of his writings I like best.

The protagonist Scrooge was a miser, who was very rich. He was very unkind to himself, not to mention to other people. Marley had been his partner, who was as rich as him, had died seven years ago. On this year's Christmas Eve, Marley's ghost came to vist him, telling him about his misery experience and that some three other ghosts would come to visit him. And Scrooge met them, who respectively represented the past, the present and the future. With the impacts of the scene he saw got stronger and stronger, he felt more and more afraid. Especially he saw his future that he died lonely on his bed, he began to make confession. It was fortunate that God forgave him, letting him to gain the redemption in one day.

Everything is nothing in front of the death. He didn't stint his money. He gave it to poor people, to philanthropic organizations. He made his only clerk Bob Cratchit's youngest son Tim live and get healthy. He spent the Christmas with his only nephew's family happily, and so did every Christmas after. People no longer hated him, but greeted to him with smile. He began to help everyone around him with his fortune and actions.

Mr. Scrooge was definately fortunate as he could live 'once again'. In fact, we also have many opportunities to do it 'once again'. There are many things we can predict the endings, but sometimes we have fluke mind so that it leads to serious mistakes.

I like endings like that, even though it is untrue, as they can touch the softest part within my heart.