Although A Christmas Carol is such a popular well-known text, I hadn't read it before this class. Sure, I'd seen the movies during Christmas time and I know of the story but I hadn't paid much attention to it let alone the illustrations. I really enjoyed how the story was written. I was interested in Dickens's use of descriptive writing without seeming like he's droning to fill up space. I liked how he made references to other texts such as Hamlet and spoke to the reader instead of at them. I specifically found how he described Scrooge interesting. He made these references to Scrooge's care for Marley and showed Scrooge as sentimental and caring but then, as we know, Scrooge would turn back around and be horrible to those around him. While I knew the story had illustrations, I had never seen them before. It was interesting to learn about the different types of illustrations and mediums used and how they didn't hold a specific theme. Some illustrations were vibrant and others diluted while some were black and white. Usually, when looking at illustrated books now, all the illustrations in the book are cohesive whether it be through style or colour scheme.