During the industrialization in England, something happened that would shock people today; the Christmas holiday became obsolete. Gone were the days when people danced around and had huge feasts to commemorate the birth of Jesus. Most people were even expected to go to work on Christmas day. The old traditions, the ones with the Yule logs and switching stations between servants and masters, simply no longer happened. Of course, even before the loss of this holiday, Christmas was different. It lasted for twelve days, and had specific traditions that are not seen often now. In fact, the idea of the modern Christmas did not even exist, with all of the snow and the cheerful giving and the roasted turkeys. At least, it did not until an inspired Charles Dickens sat down and wrote one of his most famous novels; A Christmas Carol. Dickens had a unique perspective of Christmas that would have an impact on the ideal Christmas that people would come to appreciate. Strangely enough, part of that unique perspective had to do with the weather. When Charles Dickens was young, England experienced a series of very cold winters, and almost every year, it snowed on Christmas. For a middle-class child who had a large family that all came together and were all cheerful and excited on Christmas, this would be a strong memory. He described all of the happiness and giving and Christmas cheer that no one had seen for a long time in his book, along with the carolers, the dancing, the feasts of turkey, and the beautiful white snow that he remembered from Christmas as a child. All of his readers read about this happy, exciting time, and they wanted to have Christmas’s like that, too. The Christmas holiday was revived, but it was also forever changed. With his vivid descriptions of all of the giving, and roasted turkey, and white Christmas, Charles Dickens created the modern ideal of Christmas.