Both characters hated Christmas, but changed their ways and opened their hearts to others in the end. Scrooge was the main character in Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", and the Grinch was the title character in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", by Dr. Seuss.
2. Juliet
Answer: Ophelia
Although the nature of Ophelia's death is widely debated--accident or suicide--both were young Shakespearean heroines who died for love.
3. Captain Hastings
Answer: Dr. Watson
Both gentlemen provided assistance to famed detectives in literature-Watson to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, and Hastings to Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot.
4. Heidi
Answer: Mary Lennox
Both characters were young girls whose parents died, and were sent to live with elderly relatives. Heidi lived on a mountain in Switzerland with her gruff but kindly grandfather; Mary Lennox was sent from India to England to live with a crotchety rich uncle in the book "The Secret Garden".
5. Don Quixote de La Mancha
Answer: The White Knight
Both characters were gentle and good knights, somewhat otherworldly in their demeanor. Don Quixote needs no explanation: he is a famous creation of Miguel Cervantes who sets out to right the world's wrongs; The White Knight is a character in "Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll, whom Alice encounters and assists as he repeatedly falls off his horse whilst recounting to her a litany of his inventions, which include such essentials as anklets to protect his horse from shark bites.
6. White Fang
Answer: Black Beauty
Both characters were noble animals that suffered great cruelty at the hands of humans. Happily, they both survived the mistreatment and went on to lives filled with love and comfort in their later years.
7. Hook
Answer: Ahab
Both characters were fictional ships' captains who had body parts removed in confrontations with marine creatures--Hook lost a hand to a crocodile, and Ahab a leg to Moby Dick. Ahab's ultimate fate was worse, as the whale eventually dragged him under the sea. Captain Hook lived on triumphantly in the world of Disney cartoons!
8. The Velveteen Rabbit
Answer: Pinocchio
This pair consists of two toys who wanted more than anything to become real-and who both realized their dream.
9. Glinda
Answer: Hermione Granger
These were two good witches, the first from the "Wizard of Oz" books and the other from the "Harry Potter" series. Glinda was variously characterized as either the Good Witch of the North or the Good Witch of the South, but there is no question that she was a force for good. Hermione was one of Harry Potter's closest friends and a fellow student, and always used her powers for good.
10. Mary Poppins
Answer: Maria von Trapp
Aside from the obvious, that Julie Andrews played both characters on the big screen, both were nannies who could sing delightful songs. Mary Poppins is the titular character in the children's book by P.L. Travers, and Maria von Trapp wrote a memoir in 1949, "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers", on which was based the famous movie "The Sound of Music".
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