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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 .
Tiny Tim is the young, ailing son of Bob Cratchit, Ebenezer Scrooge’s underpaid clerk. When Scrooge is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Present he is shown just how ill the boy really is (the family cannot afford to properly treat him on the salary Scrooge pays Cratchit).
Bob endures Scrooge's mistreatment until Scrooge, reformed by the visit of the three spirits, raises Bob's salary and vows to help his struggling family. The Cratchit family consists of Bob's wife, eldest daughter Martha, daughter Belinda, son Peter, two younger children: boy and girl, and Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come reveals to Scrooge the future consequences of his past and present actions: his lack of sympathy for the poor; his ill-treatment of his clerk Bob Cratchit; that the Cratchit's family poor health will result in the death of the Cratchits' disabled young son, Tiny Tim. Scrooge's past and present actions have ...
It introduced the world to Scrooge, his faithful clerk Bob Cratchit and his crippled boy, Tiny Tim, to Scrooge's boyhood employer, Fezziwig, and Scrooge's nephew, Fred. And Marley.
The Life and Times of Bob Cratchit: A Background Story to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (2015), by Dixie Distler a novel detailing how Bob Cratchit grew up and came to work at Scrooge and Marley's, how he got married, and other events before the story began. [211] A Christmas Carol II: The Rise of the Juggernauts (2016) by Nicholas ...
The musical opens with the company singing a Christmas carol medley as the city of London begins to reminisce over the coming of Christmas ("Sing A Christmas Carol"). "). Meanwhile, Scrooge and his clerk Bob Cratchit are visited by Scrooge's nephew Harry, who, in contrast to his uncle, is excited for Christmas and deplores how Scrooge is keeping Cratchit working at 7pm on Chris
Kermit the Frog is Bob Cratchit in yet another beloved retelling of Charles Dickens's famous tale. In the film, Ebenezer Scrooge learns a lesson or two about the true meaning of Christmas.