A review by elissapoletti
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

4.0

Despite this being a book set for us to read in English class for year 12 (which generally means I hate them automatically out of principle) I thoroughly enjoyed A Christmas Carol and I have a few reasons why. Firstly, it was a classic novel, you know, a novel written before the 20th century, I'm not sure what it's like in other schools but in mine we generally had to read books written in the last 30 years and they usually had awful content which left you traumatised and thinking about it months after finishing the book, which leads me onto my next point. This was a novel that left me feeling uplifted and fulfilled. It didn't make me feel like my existence on this planet was non-beneficial or worthless, it gave me hope and the chance to travel to a time I will never get to experience. And lastly, we got to see a mean old miserly character go through a dramatic change, a redemption and a return to innocence, rather then a loss of. And for that I will always thank Charles Dickens for being able to still squeeze himself into the school curriculum and give students like me the chance to read something magical instead of dull and dreary.