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Dickens never explicitly specifies the illness Tiny Tim suffers, although he walks with a crutch and has "his limbs supported by an iron frame".. In 1992, American paediatric neurologist Donald Lewis, although describing the boy as "the crippled son of Ebenezer Scrooge's clerk", proposed as one possibility renal tubular acidosis (type 1), a type of kidney failure causing the blood to become ...
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.
Ebenezer Scrooge (/ ˌ ɛ b ɪ ˈ n iː z ər ˈ s k r uː dʒ /) is a fictional character and the protagonist of Charles Dickens's 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol.Initially a cold-hearted miser who despises Christmas, his redemption by visits from the ghost of Jacob Marley, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come has become a defining ...
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.
This is why that word alone portrays Scrooge's utter disdain for his nephew's Christmas cheer. "Humbug," which started as a slang word, was so widely used that it made it to the dictionaries.
A Christmas Carol opens on a bleak, cold Christmas Eve in London, seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner, Jacob Marley.Scrooge, an ageing miser, dislikes Christmas and refuses a dinner invitation from his nephew Fred.
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.
The last of the Spirits gives Scrooge a final chance at redemption, to start life anew, and to make reparation to his nephew Fred, to the Cratchits, and the poor of London - his "fellow passengers to the grave". His redemption complete, [14] Scrooge will 'live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.' [19]