Family

• cratchit family - " it was such a small pudding for such a large family but no one said a word "
• cratchit family - " it was such a small pudding for such a large family but no one said a word "

  • prioritises family over money
  • live off of what they have and try their bests
  • grateful for what they do have
• fred - " i mean to give him the same chance every year whether he likes it or not "
• fred - " i mean to give him the same chance every year whether he likes it or not "

  • refuses to give up on his family even if they won't accept his help
  • love comes before everything else
  • never ending love
  • believes there is a warm inside to scrooge's cold exterior
• scrooge - " you keep christmas in your way and i'll keep it in mine "
• scrooge - " you keep christmas in your way and i'll keep it in mine "

  • scrooge rejects family and relationships
  • removes himself from society
  • effects of his upbringing
  • no emotional warmth
  • fire is a metaphor for warmth - " feeble fire"
  • had no love in childhood and reflects it in his actions toward others
• scrooge - " he became a second farther "
• scrooge - " he became a second farther "

  • accepts family and society values
  • becomes a warm member of the community
  • learns from his ways and wants to draw people in instead of push them away
• • perhaps scrooge dismisses family and Christmas the way he does because his friend / the only person he perceived as family , Jacob Marley , died at Christmas time
  • he hides away to avoid showing the fact that he truly cared for him
• " a solitary child , left there still "
• " a solitary child , left there still "

  • highlights scrooge's childhood
  • this is part of the reason his is the way he is
  • he never received the proper love as a child now he does not know how to accept it and hides from it