"Having been subjected to the pains of poverty as a boy himself, Dickens often wrote stories to effect social change," Jim Greene, owner of Scarlett Rat Entertainment, the company behind the acting talent for Skaneateles, New York's annual Dickens Christmas Festival, tells. Standiford speculates that Scrooge, for example, was a "direct manifestation" from Dickens' estranged relationship with his father-a man whose financial irresponsibility ensured his son spent an impoverished childhood working long hours in a shoe factory. Mickelson echoed the notion in his interview with NPR: "Dickens would.take on the voices of all the different characters and make these faces in the mirror, and almost become the characters as he's writing." "Even when he was not working, he'd feel them tugging on his sleeve saying 'time to get back to work.'" But this is actually not far from the truth: Dickens considered his invented personalities "the children of his fancy," said Susan Coyne, the writer who adapted Standiford's book for the film. One of the film's wildest depictions is the author's habit of seeing and speaking out loud to his invented characters. "He even went on to write four more Christmas books but none were even nearly as successful as A Christmas Carol." "Dickens had no notion of what the festival would become today, but he was clearly onto something," author Les Standiford told TIME. An illustration for \’a christmas carol\' depicts bob cratchet carrying tiny tim on his shoulders.
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