Cratchit children

• Cratchit children names 


  Peter (eldest son), Martha (eldest daughter), Belinda, Tiny Tim and 2 smaller ones (a boy and a girl, whose names we arent told
• Peter Cratchit

  • eldest of the cratchit children
  • coming into manhood and he looks up to his father a lot
  • "situation" -> could be a job he is doing
  • too young to be entering the world of work
• "Bobs private property conferred upon his son and heir in honour one day"
• "rejoiced to find himself so gallantly attired and yearned to show his linens in the fashionable parks" (peter)
• martha is a "poor apprentice at milliners"
• Martha represents young, underpaid and mistreat female apprentices of society
• "she had seen a countess and a lord some days before" Martha
• the first time the audience is introduced to Belinda she is working with her mother
• "helping her mother" Belinda
• "and she laid the cloth assisted by Belinda Cratchit, second of her daughters, also brave in ribbons" Belinda
• the repitition of "brave in ribbons" symbolises the similarities of Belinda and her mother
• "sweetened up the apple sauce" and "changed the plates between courses" are examples of Belinda doing domestic tasks to help her mother by doing womanly roles in the home like her mother does
• "daughters engaged in sewing" and "girls who speaks" Belinda and her sister is not mentioned by name when the ghost of christmas yet to come takes scrooge to the cratchit house
• Mr and Mrs cratchit have six children meaning six mouths to feed which is difficult due to Bob being paid very minimally
• Peter and Martha are both working to help feed their families as their father is struggling as he is not paid enough for everything