I really enjoyed the annotated exercise because it was interesting to do a close reading of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. I feel as though when I am required to read a text for class, I try to get through it as quickly as possible. Therefore, it was helpful to be able to do a close reading and dive into different words and phrases that were more complicated to grasp. I decided to write on the word “bore” for stave four.

What I enjoyed most about todays exercise with A Christmas Carol was seeing the way that Leeche's illustrations represened Dickens's story. For the image that I curated which was the one entitled "Scrooge's third Visitor," I was able to see how the image was a direct reflection of the scene in the book that it was placed next to in the print copy. Leech produced a direct reflection of the character that Dickens wrote, as the description and image themselves were the same, and in doing so included delierate symbols to showcase what the Ghost of Christmas Present represents.

I really enjoyed reading Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol this week. It was so interesting to compare my prior knowledge of the story from movies and videos to the actual 1943 text. I noticed that many of the movies and video retellings of the story omits some of the content in the Staves such as the ball that Scrooge goes to when he is a young man during his journey through Christmas Past. I enjoyed reading the text and diving deeper into the characterization of Scrooge while also gaining a Victorian insight into Christmas time in 1843.