Death of tiny tim quote

• Charles Dickens: 'Quiet. Very quiet. The noisy little Cratchits were as still as statues in one corner.'
• This quotation describes the Cratchit house after the death of Tiny Tim
• The previously jovial home is now quiet as they painfully process their loss
• Juxtaposition of Cratchits in Stave Three and Stave Four

  • Repetition of 'quiet'
  • Simile 'still as statues'
  • Emphasises their sense of loss
  • Clear juxtaposition of the cheerful and lively family in the previous stave
• Scrooge


  • Able to witness genuine mourning
  • Has the power to change the death foreshadowed in the previous stave
• Dickens' use of structure

  Means the death foreshadowed in the previous stave has now become a reality
• This is one of the most powerful moments in Scrooge's transformation