Who is one of the most famous heroes of Dickens? For me it is Scrooge. I love Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” most of all, because it has a really good meaning. At first Scrooge was a selfish and greedy person. He thought only about money, he thought money was everything and Christmas, love, were nonsense for him. “He thought Christmas was just a time for paying bills without money, a time for finding himself a year older, but not an hour richer.” (Dickens) He never gave the poor money, he didn’t care about anyone. And he was isolated from everyone, the people and even his relatives.

Oh, Scrooge, Scrooge,
How can you be
So selfish and mean,
When everyone around you
Is good and sweet.

But then he saw how people lived, what poorness was, he understood that the most important thing in the world was not money. People get blind when they see it. It’s really a shame that nowadays there are people like Scrooge. When I started reading that book I felt myself in that story with him. First I watched the cartoon and then started reading the book, because I really liked it. And that was the time when I discovered the magic diary of the Dickens’ hero…

My name is Lucy. I’m 13 years old. I’d like to tell about my story which changed my life and me…
My brother Max and I were coming home from school when Max asked permission to read Dickens' book. I gave the book and asked to be careful.

I was in my bedroom the whole day, doing my homework. It was 6:00 pm, when I went to the living room and saw Max drawing on that book. I took it from him and said:

-Why have you drawn on it?

And then something happened, as if it was an earthquake and after a second Max and I were not in the living room anymore.

We were in a big room. It was really pretty. We rotated all the house and it was like a palace. We didn’t know whose house we were in and what we should do. Max was terrified. There was a door near the shelves in the living room. There we found money, a lot of money…

Several days passed and as if we were in heaven. After a week the money was gone. After spending the money we realized we were all alone here and we missed our parents.

When people see money they forget about everything and that happened to us. Then I remembered Scrooge. But we were worse than him. We hadn’t wasted our own money. Even Scrooge worked hard and earned money. We didn’t even consider the consequences. Suddenly we heard voices outside. Someone was giving money to the poor. We went outside and that man came to us and said:

-I’m Scrooge. Now you have learned a lesson as I had one day from the ghosts.

He smiled and vanished. Then I heard a noise… as if it was a knock on the door. Everything started spinning… I closed my eyes and when I opened it, I was in my room, sitting on my chair and my homework was in front of me. Was I dreaming? Someone knocked on the door again. It was mom. She told me dinner was ready and we went to the kitchen. If it hadn’t been a dream Max had painted on my book. But when I went to the kitchen he gave me my book and said he liked it. So it had been a dream…

From then on I think that money is a bad thing. Our dreams can come true if we have it, but we will lose the people we love. I hope that everyone will think as I do and will appreciate whatever they have and will try to see good in it. I wish that there will always be freedom, happiness, love, peace in everyone’s heart. That is the greatest treasure of all.