ENG 215 Essex County College Role and Idea of Childhood Paper

Summary:

Final paper

The final paper is a four-page paper that must include a minimum of TWO of the outside sources listed below. No other secondary sources will be allowed in this paper.

Prompt 1

How has Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol impacted television outside of adaptations of his classic tail?

Choose 1 or 2 classic Christmas films to demonstrate a connection to Dickens’ novela.

Prompt 2

What role do children and the idea of childhood play in Charles’ Dickens’ A Christmas Carol?

Prompt 3

How does Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol champion the idea of small government?

Prompt 4

How does Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol advocate for the need and power of Redemption? Or How does Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol demonstrate (leaving the ghosts out of this one) the path toward redemption?

Prompt 5

How are Scrooge’s early unsuccessful relationships related to his later dealings/relationships with family, acquaintances, and his fellow human beings?

Works Cited

Corval, Raquel, et al. “Inhibited Attachment Disordered Behavior in Institutionalized Preschool Children: Links with Early and Current Relational Experiences.” Attachment & Human Development, vol. 19, no. 6, Dec. 2017, pp. 598–612. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/14616734.2017.1342172.

Fruhauff, Brad. “Dickens’s Haunted Christmas: The Ethics of the Spectral Text.” Forum, no. 07, Dec. 2008. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsdoj&AN=edsdoj.2df6e60c1c694b8dbfb56043b4c76b51&site=eds-live&scope=site.

Hancock, Philip. “A Christmas Carol: A Reflection on Organization, Society, and the Socioeconomics of the Festive Season.” Academy of Management Review, vol. 41, no. 4, Oct. 2016, pp. 755–765. EBSCOhost, doi:10.5465/amr.2016.0038.

Harrison, Mary-Catherine. “The Paradox of Fiction and the Ethics of Empathy: Reconceiving Dickens’s Realism.” Narrative, vol. 16, no. 3, Oct. 2008, pp. 256–278. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=34365776&site=eds-live&scope=site.

Robinson, David E. “Redemption and the Imagination of Childhood: Dickens’s Representation of Children in A Christmas Carol.” Literator, vol. 37, no. 1, Nov. 2016, pp. e1–e8. EBSCOhost, doi:10.4102/lit.v37i1.1307.