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Poverty - Coggle Diagram
Poverty
Rich vs Poor in the play
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Fezziwig is shown as using his wealth to make others happy - which contradicts Scrooge's mood at Christmas
Fred explains to Scrooge about Christmas being a time of merriness and how it makes him richer emotionally.
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Ignorance and Want
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"From the folding of its robe, it brought two children:
wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable"
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Bob Cratchit and family
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Their Christmas pudding is very small but "nobody said or thought it was a small pudding for so large a family. It would have been flat heresy to say so. Any Cratchit would have blushed to think at such a thing"
The Streets
people are described as "half-naked, drunken, slipshod and ugly"
Overcrowded streets - "reeked with
crime, with filth, and misery"
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Lack of responsibility
Scrooge is told that Tiny Tim will die if the Cratchits don't get out of poverty and he is responsible for them.
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