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Robert "Bob" Cratchit is a fictional character in the Charles Dickens 1843 novel A Christmas Carol. The overworked, underpaid clerk of Ebenezer Scrooge , Cratchit has come to symbolise the poor working conditions, especially long working hours and low pay, endured by many working-class people in the early Victorian era .
Bob announces he will resign from Scrooge's employment in the morning, as he has found another job. Scrooge wishes to tell Mary he will not reveal their arrangement to Bob, but, sensing his presence, Mary tells him to leave. The Ghost of Christmas Future appears as a man in black with his mouth sewn shut. Scrooge sees Cratchit resigning from ...
Rebecca Gethings as Ethel Cratchit, Bob's wife who dislikes Scrooge. Rupert Turnbull as Tiny Tim, Bob and Ethel's son. Oliver Jenkins as Tiny Tim's singing voice. Devon Pomeroy as Kathy Cratchit, Bob and Ethel's daughter who likes to do Christmas caroling. Sheena Bhattessa as Hela Huffman, Harry's wife and Scrooge's niece-in-law.
Scrooge is then shown the Cratchit home. Despite wearing a cheery manner for his family's sake, Bob is deeply troubled by the loss of his job, though he confides in no one except his daughter Martha. The spirit hints that Bob's youngest son, Tim, will die of a crippling illness by the same time next year if things do not change.
Seven years later, on Christmas Eve 1843, Scrooge's loyal, but meek clerk Bob Cratchit is the target of Scrooge's cruelty and bitterness. Scrooge declines his nephew Fred Bowley's invitation to join him for Christmas dinner, dismisses two gentlemen collecting charitable donations and frightens away a carol singer by brandishing a ruler.
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It is Christmas Eve of 1843: Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly and cold-hearted money-lender, is working in his freezing counting house along with his suffering, underpaid clerk Bob Cratchit. Two businessmen arrive to request a donation for the poor, but Scrooge responds that prisons and workhouses are sufficient resources to deal with poor people.
There's nothing our pets love more than a huge bowl of the best cat food or dog food and we all know what they get like when that bowl runs dry! We have a feeling one of the first things our pets ...