What happens in stave 2 Christmas carol

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Scrooge awakes at midnight, which leaves him baffled--it was well after two a.m. He suddenly reme mbers the words of Marley's ghost. The first of the three spirits will arrive at one o'clock. Scrooge decides to wait for his visitor.

At one o'clock, the first ghost arrives .The specter softly informs Scroog e that he is the Ghost of Christmas Past and orders the mesmerized man to rise and walk with him. The pair exit through window

The ghost transports Scrooge to the countryside where he was raised. He sees his old school, his childhood mates, and familiar landmarks of his youth. Touched by these memories, Scrooge begins to sob. The ghost takes the weeping man into the school where a solitary boy--a young Ebenezer Scrooge--passes the Christmas holiday all alone. The ghost takes Scrooge on a depressing tour of more Christmases of the past--the boy in the schoolhouse grows older. At last, a little girl, Scrooge's sister Fan, runs into the room, and announces that she has come to take Ebenezer home. Their father is much kinder, she says. He has given his consent to Ebenezer's return. The young Scrooge, delighted to see his sister, embraces her joyfully.

The ghost escorts Scrooge to more Christmases of the past including a merry party thrown by Fezziwig, the merchant with whom Scrooge apprenticed as a young man. Scrooge later sees himself conversation with a lovely young woman named Belle. She is breaking off their engagement crying that greed has corrupted the love that used to impassion Scrooge's heart. The spirit takes Scrooge to a more recent Christmas scene where a middle-aged Belle remini sces with her husband about her former fiance, Scrooge. The husband says that Scrooge is now "quite alone in the world." The older Scrooge can no longer bear the gripping vision.Tormented and full of despair, Scrooge seizes the ghost's hat and pulls it firmly over top of the mystical child's head, dimming the light. Scrooge finds himself back in his b edroom, where he stumbles to bed yet again and falls asleep
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Useful websites for Christmas carol are
www.sparknotes.com
https://www.litcharts.com/lit/a-christmas-carol/stave-2
https://www.gradesaver.com/a-christm...mary-stave-two
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