tiny tim/bob cratchit

• BOB CRATCHIT + TINY TIM

  Maltreated

  "the clerk's fire was so very much smaller"
• BOB CRATCHIT + TINY TIM

  Stoical (enduring pain and hardship without complaining)

  "my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week [...] talking about a merry christmas"

  links - scrooge doesn't think poor people can be happy which is ironic considering he himself is miserable
• BOB CRATCHIT + TINY TIM

  Proud (bob)/not self-pitying (TT)

  "he hoped the people saw him in church [..] to remember upon christmas day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see"

  links - TT hopes his disability will remind them of Christ, making them happier on Christmas
• BOB CRATCHIT + TINY TIM

  Revered (=to feel deep admiration/respect for)

  "spirit of tiny tim, thy childish essence was from God!"

  links - TT represents the less fortunate, TT innocence communicates that the poor were vicitms of an unfair society
• BOB CRATCHIT AND TINY TIM

  Loved/loving

  "bob hugged his daughter to his heart's content"

  "the two young Cratchits got upon his knees and laid, each child a little cheek, against his face"