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Poverty In Christmas Carol - Coggle Diagram
Poverty In Christmas Carol
Cratchit
Poor working conditions
Christmas dinner - not luxurious but still happy
Inadequate clothing
People in pawn shop
Takes scrooge's: Curtains, Clothes
Tenants who rent from scrooge
Pleased when he dies
They owe him money - debt
Hope the new tenant will be kinder
Fred
Scrooge says: "you're poor enough"
Happy even though he hasn't got much money
Still invites people in
Ignorance + Want
Quotes
"Decrease the surplus population" - Stave 1
Based on Malthus's theory which angered Dickens which is why we see it presented to the reader early on.
"His clerk, who in a dismal little cell... was copying letters" - Stave 1
The clerk is treated differently to scrooge because he is poorer than Scrooge and Scrooge has not intent of helping those poorer than him or anyone for that matter.
"I have always thought of Christmas time... a kind, forgiving, charitable time" - Stave 1
Even Fred, who is poor thinks that Christmas is a time for giving.