A Christmas Carol Poverty quotes and analysis
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- Poverty
- Many
thousands are in want of common necessaries
- Charity collectors trying to persuade Scrooge to donate money
- Trying to appeal to his compassion by giving an amount
- Charity collectors trying to persuade Scrooge to donate money
- Brave in Ribbons
- Mrs Cratchit doesn't have enough money to spend on decent clothes so buys cheap ribbons instead
- She makes the best of an impoverished situation 'brave'
- Mrs Cratchit doesn't have enough money to spend on decent clothes so buys cheap ribbons instead
- Reeked
with crime and filth and misery
- Describes streets where Scrooge is taken
- Shows circumstances of other people in the area
- Describes streets where Scrooge is taken
- If
they would rather die they had better go and go it and decrease the surplus
population
- Scrooge shows how little sympathy he has for the poor people
- Merciless attitude towards the impoverished shows his character
- Scrooge shows how little sympathy he has for the poor people
- This
boy is ignorant, this girl is want
- Ghost of Christmas Present showing the two children clinging on to him
- Demonstrates problems in society which cause unhappiness
- Ghost of Christmas Present showing the two children clinging on to him
- Dismal
little and cell
- Where Bob Cratchit works
- Comparison to a prison cell suggests poverty, shows how bad his working conditions are
- Where Bob Cratchit works
- Many
thousands are in want of common necessaries
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