I found it very fulfilling to be able to look at A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens and Illustrated by John Leech today in class with my fellow peers. I have read/seen all different types of versions of A Christmas Carol as a result of just simply growing up. To call it a classic is an understatement, but to be able to study it in a university class this semester is a full circle moment. The images curated by John Leech have extreme depth and they have the capacity to be analyzed to great lengths. With that being said, I particularly enjoyed looking at the image titled “Marley’s Ghost”. The energy that the photo possesses is an eerie one, having life faced with death and a harsh reality of what is to come if you become too greedy in your present life. The image is cold, with little light and darkness weighing over Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley. The candlelight in the middle can be interpreted as the little glimpse of hope that scrooge has in regard to what the afterlife could look for him if he goes forward in life with a more generous foot.