Heroism, Humanism & Hijinks: Literature in Action - Week 15, Period 5 (Final)

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The class was in the Danger Shop today for their final piece of assessment.

"Good afternoon. Inside you'll find Dickensian London. Namely, the London of A Christmas Carol. Something, however, had gone wrong. Despite being visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, Ebenezer Scrooge has not discovered the true meaning of Christmas and thus has not gone to Christmas dinner with the Cratchett family. Fix it."

[OOC: Thank you all for a wonderful semester and for hanging on with me while I tested the waters with Lit. You've been a great class. Hope to see you back next semester for a more organised Lit class!]

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Molly's first thought was that something had gone wrong during the visitations. So, she decided to speak with the ghosts to see what they had said to Scrooge and see if it was correct.

She wasn't sure exactly where to go to find the ghosts, so she went to Scrooge's bedroom since that was where they had all appeared. "Hey, ghosts!" she called out. "We need a status report here!"

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"What?" Marley and his understudy said in unison.

"What?" the other ghosts repeated, except for the ghost of christmas yet to come who wasn't much of a talker.

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Molly paced in front of them. "Okay, Scrooge did not discover the true meaning of Christmas. I need to know what you all said to him or if anything odd happened during your visitations. Marley and... friend? You want to start?"

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"We said the same thing we always say!"

"It's worked every other time."

"The problem must be with Scrooge. He must want out."

"Or he's gone crazy."

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"Hmmmmm." Molly paced some more. "Anybody else? Did you do anything different or did Scrooge say anything different?"

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"No!"

"We're fictional characters, not actors on Who's Line is it Anyway? We say what we're supposed to say and do what we've always done."

"Unless you get a loose canon like Scrooge. He's not happy with being cranky all the time. It makes people dislike him and he just wants to be liked."

"Maybe he has snapped."

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"Hmmm," Molly said again. "Looks like I'll have to go talk to Scrooge. Thanks for talking to me."

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"Come back and visit!"

"We have biscuits!"

"With sprinkles!"

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Molly grinned and waved as she went out the door to go find Scrooge. "If I have time, I definitely will," she said.

She went downstairs to see if she could find Scrooge.

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"What d'ye want?" Scrooge barked from his desk.

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"I want to know what's wrong," Molly said as she walked up and leaned on his desk.

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"Everything's wrong ye barmy lass!" Except perhaps Scrooge's appauling Scottish accent. "I've been kept up all night by ghosts, didn't get a wink of sleep, had flashbacks galore, saw my own grave and now they expect me to change my mind and go and have Christmas dinner with people, only to start the book all over again and be a crotchety old man. Not again! Bah humbug!"

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"What do you want to do?" Molly asked and started to fidget with stuff on Scrooge's desk.

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"Be left alone! Not have to be involved in all the namby pamby Christmas garbage. Bah!"

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Molly actually picked up a piece of paper from his desk and started absently reading it. "But don't you have fun at the end of the book? Everybody is happy and they're nice to you."

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"But then I have to go back to being a grinch when the book restarts!"

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Molly smirked. "Yeah, but you know how it ends and it can be kind of fun to yell at people, can't it?"

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"Are you implying I should just pretend to be a grinch?"

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Molly shrugged and continued to smirk. "Why not? As long as you say the words, does it really matter what you actually feel?"

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"Well the text does have an omnipotent narrator." He rubbed his chin. "As long as I don't really have to be mean the whole time. You'll let the others know that it's all an act?"

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Molly nodded. "I can do that."

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Scrooge eyed her. "Okay then. We've come to an agreement." Scrooge grabbed his hat and went to have dinner.

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"Woo hoo!" Molly said happily.