I found that collectively annotating A Christmas Carol was an interesting experience because it really brought numerous minds together and enriched the concepts and the novella even more so. I personally liked how annotating and researching about the image further reveals things that I haven’t really noticed or paid attention to prior—the significant details put into things. It’s to actively engage with the reading and understanding its references. Annotating also helps in understanding words that we might’ve encountered in modern time but how their meaning had been different when the context is placed within the 19th century.

One thing I found kind of at odds was Charles Dickens’ purpose of writing the novella. I understand he wrote it after realizing how horrible the conditions of the working class were—with the Poor Law and exploitative measures of the elite class. At the same time, the fact that his book had costed five shillings (from what I recalled was mentioned in class) and was using those same exploitative measures in colouring the book, seems redundant to me. If he’d wanted to truly make an impact or make a social call-out to the way things were being run then there might have been more personal and impactful methods.