Family Flashcards
All the children of the house were running out into the snow to meet their married sisters, brothers, cousins, uncles, aunts
The extensive listing of different family roles further highlights Scrooge’s isolation as it presents the abundance of family as invaluable. Dickens implies that family is so essential that it should be interwoven into everybody’s lives
Why cannot we be friends
Despite Scrooge insulting his nephew, Fred constantly tries to break Scrooge out his shell and make him more social by inviting him to dinner ‘year after year’ - very persistent and pitying of his uncle
To Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, as good a man
Through the Cratchits, Scrooge finally has a family. Scrooge also indirectly helped save Tiny Tim’s life, showing that the wealthy have a big responsibility to help others.
In they all came, one after another, some shyly, some boldly, some gracefully, some awkwardly, some pushing, some pulling
Fezziwig’s party shows the colleagues as one big family, all enjoying the celebrations together
A comely matron sitting opposite her daughter
Belle got the family and the life Scrooge now wishes he had. She always knew that love was worth more than material goods, which Scrooge had yet to learn
In the dark empty house, with not a man, a women, or a child to say that he was kind
When Scrooge dies, he realises his perpetual loneliness means he has no one to care for him even in death.
Precious father
The adjective precious highlights Cratchit’s value to his family
My boys no more work tonight
Fezziwig is portrayed as a jovial and generous figure and a sort of father figure to Scrooge. The possessive pronoun ‘my’ indicates that he cares for their wellbeing.
Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home’s like heaven
The lack of compassion and emotional neglect in Scrooge’s family could have resulted in his cold demeanour in adulthood. Scrooge’s father is the opposite to Bob Cratchit who is doting and attentive
Mrs Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce; Martha dusted the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped.
In stave 3, the entire Cratchit family helps to make and prepare the Christmas dinner, all working together as parts of a harmonious whole
