Краткий рассказ на тему «Рождественская вечеринка» на английский язык СРОЧНО
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Stanza 1.
The Spirit of Gauze
The grim old miser Ebenzar Scrooge has long loved no one and nothing but his own money.
Ebenzar Scrooge is an old and gloomy miser, loves only money.
He did not understand the joy that the approaching Christmas and Yuletide brings to others, and fastidiously declined his kind nephew's invitation to celebrate Christmas with him and his family. Scrooge could not understand why people have fun all day and do not work if it does not benefit them, and refused to donate money to charity to help children in need.
Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel has ever knocked out a single noble spark, he was secretive, reserved and closed in himself, like an oyster in its shell.
On the evening of Christmas Eve, Scrooge very reluctantly dismissed his clerk from work, closed the office and went home. There, the spirit of his late partner Jacob Marley, who died on Christmas Eve seven years ago, suddenly appeared to him.
Jacob Marley is Scrooge's companion, who died seven years ago and appeared as a ghost.
Duke Marley told Scrooge that after his death he was punished for not striving to do good on earth and help people during his lifetime.
He did not want the same fate to befall his former companion, so at his request, Scrooge would be visited by three spirits who, he hoped, would help him change. The spirits will appear one after another for three nights at the first hour of the midnight. After these words, the spirit of Marley said goodbye to Scrooge and disappeared.
Stanza 2.
The first Spirit
At the first hour after midnight, the Yuletide spirit of the past years appeared. He took Scrooge with him into the past. Scrooge saw the town where he was born and grew up, where everything was familiar to him from a young age. Then he saw himself in childhood and youth, when he, full of delight, enthusiasm and hope, was ready to share joy with people close to him. Seeing himself like this, Scrooge, without noticing it himself, softened, his heart thawed.
After that, Scrooge saw himself as an adult, when greed had already begun to take root in him. Noticing this, his long-time lover decided to part with him. She realized that he, with his cold calculation, did not need the feelings of a poor girl whom he loved when he was poor himself. She married someone else and arranged her family happiness. Scrooge could not look at himself like this from the outside and began to beg the spirit to take him away from the visions of the past. Eventually the spirit disappeared and Scrooge fell asleep.
Stanza 3.
The Second Spirit
On the second day, at exactly one o'clock in the morning, the spirit of the present Yuletide appeared to Scrooge. He led Scrooge through his town with its streets decorated for Christmas, joyful dressed-up people, shelves bursting with Christmas treats. Everywhere there was abundance and joy about the upcoming holiday.
Then the spirit took Scrooge to the home of Bob Cratchit, a clerk working in his office.
Bob Cratchit is a clerk working in Scrooge's office; he is poor, has a large family.
Bob's big, poor family was full of fun and jubilation. Only once did everyone's joy break down — when Bob proposed a toast to Scrooge's health. His wife very reluctantly joined in the toast, saying that only for the sake of Christmas she drinks to the health of this nasty and insensitive miser.
It was the first toast of the evening that the family members did not drink from the bottom of their hearts. And then Scrooge felt sorry for Bob's poor and sick son, little Tiny Tim, to whom the spirit predicted death if "the future does not make its own changes."
Tiny-Tim Cratchit is Bob Cratchit's little, sick son.
Next, Scrooge and the spirit traveled to different places and watched the miners, lighthouse workers, celebrate Christmas, who forgot about their quarrels and hardships for a while. Their faces were cheerful, everyone wished each other a merry Christmas. Finally, the spirit took Scrooge to his nephew's house, where fun games and amusements had already begun.
How beautifully and expediently everything is arranged in the world! Sorrows and illnesses are contagious, but nothing infects like laughter and gaiety.
The nephew was the only one in the whole city who did not harbor malice towards his sullen and rude uncle and, in spite of everything, wished him a merry Christmas with all his heart, hoping that he would one day become kinder and improve. Scrooge himself, invisible to everyone, enjoyed watching the fun and amusements in his nephew's house and even wanted to participate in them, but the spirit did not give him time for this, returned Scrooge to his house and disappeared.