ghost of his late business partner, Jacob Marley, who wears a chain as punishment for his selfishness when he was alive. He warns Scrooge that he will be haunted by three spirits, and that the first of these will call at one o'clock in the morning. Despite this, Scrooge continues his selfish ways by refusing to donate money to two men of business, admitting that he supports the prisons and workhouses, and even claims that the poor are better off dead and should die to 'decrease the surplus population'. When Scrooge goes to bed, he encounters the Ghost of Christmas Past, who takes him back to his youth. Scrooge witnesses when he was unwanted in school by his father, James Emanuel Scrooge, until his sister Fan came to collect him, claiming their father has changed, and also introduces him to Belle. It turns out that Scrooge's father still despises him and sends him off to Fezziwig's to be an apprentice. Scrooge then witnesses when he was happy under Fezziwig, who treated him like a son, before Scrooge and the spirit witness a Christmas party which includes Fan, her husband Fredrick, and Belle. However, young Scrooge, after being left the inheritance by his late father, shows his greedy side, whilst Fan, who is pregnant with Fred, is implied to be driven to poverty (as their father disowned her as he did not approve of her marriage to Fredrick) and dies after Fred is born. Scrooge then sees when Belle, who he was engaged to, leave him due to his changed ways. The next spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows Scrooge how others keep Christmas, including Fred and the Cratchits. Tiny Tim, who is ailing with pnemounia, concerns Scrooge, but the spirit sarcastically tells Scrooge that he is better off dead, and uses Scrooge's previous unkind remarks of the surplus population. The final spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, shows Scrooge what will happen in the future if he does not repent: Tim dies with his family mourning him, and a dead man who is robbed and spoken of negatively is Scrooge himself after seeing his 'grave'. The ghost of Marley returns him to the present, where Scrooge at first does not change, but after seeing his 'chains' via a mirror, quickly repents and hires a boy to buy and deliver a goose to the Cratchits. Scrooge becomes a