xmas present

• XMAS PRESENT

  "to a poor one most [..] because it needs it most"

  teaches message that we should be most sympathetic to the poor as they are the most in need

  modelling good behaviour by sprinkling incense
• XMAS PRESENT

  "if he's like to die, he better do it and decrease the surplus population"

  echoes scrooge's own words
• XMAS PRESENT

  supernatural

  "he shed a few drops of water [..] and their good faith was restored"
• XMAS PRESENT

  • "jolly giant"
  • has a torch that "restores good humour"
  • "holly, mistletoe and ivy"
• XMAS PRESENT

  -despite poverty Cratchit's home is warm and inviting with family at its heart

  • "thread-bare clothes"
  • "they hadn't ate it all at last"
  • "twice turned gown"
  • "atom of bone"
  • "as good as gold" (TT)
  • "they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another"
• XMAS PRESENT

  Fred's house - "laughter and good humour"

  • sympathy for scrooge, happy and joyus
• XMAS PRESENT

  christmas spirit

  the journey (b4 fred's house)

  messages: love and message of xmas can reach everyone, everywhere

  even in isolated lighthouses, crowded poor houses, "bleak + desert moors" and on working ships
• XMAS PRESENT

  1. the personification of want and ignorance portayed as 2 kids
  2. symbolic childhood poverty - dickens passionate abolishing
  3. thru education children break vicious cycle poverty getting higher paid job giving future families better life
  4. worked with ragged schools -help improve them
  5. grew up poor worked dangerous conditions young age

  • "yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish"
  • "but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is doom"
  • "where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked"

  angels - innocence, purity of youth, devils - corruption due to poverty