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* ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' goes into this more sympathetically: Jacob Marley sends three ghosts of Christmas to save his former partner and protegee Ebeneezer Scrooge from eternal damnation. The Ghost of Christmas Past reveals that the reason why Scrooge is so cold-hearted is not just that he lost his love Belle; he had a neglectful father that shunted him off to boarding school, and his sister Fanny died having Fred, which is why Ebeneezer treats Fred so coldly. Ebeneezer acknowledges with hindsight that he has become his father; the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows that unless he changes, Scrooge will die alone, and London will be happier for it. By this point, however, Ebeneezer is not just worried about his own soul; he frets that {{spoiler|his employee Bob Cratchit will lose his son Tiny Tim}}. The first thing he does on waking up during Christmas morning is to {{spoiler|ask a boy to buy a giant turkey for the Cratchits, and to surprise them with the food and gifts for Christmas}}.