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Stave One Section 2 (What Happened? (Scrooge distrusts Bob Cratchit and…
Stave One Section 2
What Happened?
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scrooge reluctantly gives Bob the day off and Bob goes home in a playful mood whilst Scrooge is gloomy.
Who's Who?
Fred is Scrooges opposite - he thinks Christmas is ' a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time' where as Scrooge is negative and cynical and calls him an idiot.
Fred is all aglow because he has been walking fast and happy, suggesting a warm personality.
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He has no money he married for love, Scrooge calls him a fool.
What does it Mean?
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We learn about Bob at work, in his cell suggestive of a prisoner.
Dickens
Scrooge is established as a difficult, unpleasant, unsympathetic character so that his transformation is all the more powerful.
Pathetic Fllacy - a form of personification - where natural, inanimate objects, such as weather reflect human emotions. So Scrooges bad temper is made visible in the fog that gets everywhere demonstrating how infections negative emotions are.
Themes
Social Responsibility - charity collectors and scrooges middle class Victorian reaction to them and the poor.