The New Year by Charles Dickens. Short summary

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The author says that New Year’s Eve is among the two most pleasant calendar events. He notes with regret that there are dull people who are indifferent to the holiday.

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Dickens argues that New Year’s Eve is one of the most memorable holidays, not counting Christmas. The writer expresses his own dissatisfaction with the fact that there are sad individuals in our world who are indifferent to celebrations of this kind. The creator even compares them to individuals who cry during funeral ceremonies. The author considers this attitude wrong — it is necessary, in his opinion, to bid farewell to the outgoing year and to meet the other, expressing joy as well as jubilation on their part.

He can not imagine that during the year nothing good happened, so that then, summing up the results, it would be impossible to remember it without a smile on his face. According to Dickens, both justice and the law order to treat the New Year’s Eve celebration with dignity, until he proves by his own behavior that he is not worthy of being trusted.