Ignorance and want quote

• The boy


  • Ignorance
• The girl


  • Want
• Descriptions of the children

  • Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish
• Asyndetic list of adjectives

  Present the children as animalistic to enhance the danger of the issues in society
• Scrooge serves as a microcosm of the rich


  Dickens wishes for the readers to be appalled by the children- just like Scrooge is
• The children


  • Symbolic of the poor-more specifically the industrial poor who work in factories or are sent to workhouses, struggling to make ends meet
• The fact that they came from a ghost shows how they have been forgotten
• They are literally hidden away and neglected by society
• Dickens presents the children as doomed from childhood because they are born into poverty