Poverty
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- Created on: 05-04-18 14:25
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- POVERTY
- Cratchits
- 'they were not a very handsome family'
- 'their shoes were far from waterproof'
- 'a sufficient dinner'
- 'noone said it was a small dinner for such a large family'
- 'his white comforter'
- scrooge's view
- 'are there no prisons?...no workhouses?...and the poor law is still in full vigour?'
- 'if they'd rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population'
- 'I cant afford to make idle people merry'
- 'what right have you to be merry? you're poor enough'
- 'there is no hardship greater than poverty'
- Fred
- 'what right do you have to be dismal? you're rich enough'
- 'and although it's never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe it has done me good and will do me good'
- Context
- most rich people didn't feel it was their responsibility to take care of the poor
- poverty was a huge problem
- Dickens experienced poverty
- Cratchits
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