stave 3

• What does the Cratchit family's Christmas dinner symbolize?

  • Appreciation for what they have
  • Importance of love over wealth
• What does the Ghost of Christmas Present carry?

  A glowing torch
• What warning does the Ghost of Christmas Present give Scrooge?

  “Beware them both” referring to Ignorance and Want
• What key quotation reflects the Cratchit family's attitude towards their Christmas dinner?

  “Nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family.”
• The Cratchit family

  “And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs. Cratchit [...] “As good as gold,” said Bob, “and better.”

  “Nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family.’

  “Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father.”
• The Ghost of Christmas Present

  The Ghost “bore a glowing torch, in shape not unlike Plenty's horn”

  “This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both”
• Ignorance and Want

  ‘Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish’

  ‘On his brow (Ignorance) I see written Doom’
• social injustice about tiny tim death


   “If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”
• fred talking about scrooge invite

  · "I mean to give him the same chance every year whether he likes it or not."