ACC Minor Characters Key Quotes

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“he bore a little crutch and had his limbs supported by an iron frame”

Character: Tiny Tim

Stave:3

Themes - Poverty + social Injustice, Hope

• Pathos, highlights Tiny Tim’s physical fragility

• Tim is a moral compass for Scrooge

• Tim is a symbol of the struggling, disadvantaged children

• Tiny Tim may have rickets

“God bless us every one!”

Character: Tiny Tim

Stave:3

Themes - Hope, Religion

• Religious imagery, Exclamatory sentence, Tiny Tim reinforces Christian beliefs about Christmas

“There never was such a goose cooked.”

Character: Cratchit Family

Stave:3

Themes - Poverty + social Injustice, Family, Christmas

• Hyperbole – showing they exaggerate the excitement of a goose which is too small for them as a family but they are grateful anyway.

• They can find happiness in scarcity

• Promotes a moral reflection for reader

“Eked out by apple-sauce and mashed potatoes”

Character: Cratchit Family

Stave:3

Themes - Poverty + social Injustice, Family, Christmas

• Adjective – shows that there isn’t enough food to go around

• Cratchit’s are utilising everything they have

“monstrous shirt collar (Bob’s private property”

Character: Cratchit Family

Stave:3

Themes - Poverty + social Injustice, Family

• Peter has large aspirations despite lack of of wealth

• Suggests struggle as it is not Peter’s shirt

“wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable.”

Character: Ignorance + Want

Stave:3

Themes - Poverty + social Injustice, Regret + Grief

• Asyndetic listing, Overwhelms the reader with horror

• Shows the grotesque results of social neglect

• Children reduced to objects of pity rather than individuals

“Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish”

Character: Ignorance + Want

Stave:3

Themes - Poverty + social Injustice, Regret + Grief

• Asyndetic listing, Zoomorphism, Repulsive image

• Dehumanised - extreme deprivation has made them animalistic

• Stripped of dignity

“Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing.”

Character: Ignorance + Want

Stave:3

Themes - Poverty + Social Injustice, Regret + Grief, Religion

• Metaphor, religious imagery, Children are supposed to be angelic and heavenly

“They are Man’s… and they cling to me”

Character: Ignorance + Want

Stave:3

Themes - Poverty + social Injustice, Regret + Grief

• Society has let children down - people should feel responsible

• Children are desperate and in need of help

“I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”

Character: Ignorance + Want

Stave:3

Themes - Poverty + social Injustice, Hope, Redemption + Change

• Personification of Doom - powerful force to be overturned

• highlights urgency for reform

“Another idol has displaced me…a golden one”

Character: Belle

Stave:2

Themes - Religion, Redemption + Change, Regret + Grief

• Metaphor + Religious allusion, Belle equates money with false worship, highlighting Scrooge’s increasing desire for money. Dickens is condemning materialism

• Scrooge’s obsession stems from a fear of poverty

“May you be happy in the life you have chosen.”

Character: Belle

Stave:2

Themes - Regret + Grief, Redemption + Change

• Irony, Scrooge has not chosen happiness but materialism and loneliness

“Gain engrosses you.”

Character: Belle

Stave:2

Themes - Regret + Grief, Redemption + Change

• Belle states how greed had consumed Scrooge

• It has destructive power

“Now a comely matron sitting opposite her daughter”

Character: Belle

Stave:2

Themes - Family, Hope

• Belle’s life is now full of warmth and joy

• She has become happy without wealth

“Dear, dear brother!”

Character: Fan

Stave:2

Themes - Family, Regret + Grief

• Repetition, deep affection

• Figure of love and warmth for Scrooge that he has lost

“Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home’s like Heaven!”

Character: Fan

Stave:2

Themes - Family, Religion, Hope

• Simile, Fan is optimistic and forgiving

• Fan is full of love

“A positive light appeared to issue from Fezziwig’s calves. They shone in every part of the dance like moons.'”

Character: Fezziwig

Stave:2

Themes - Christmas, Generosity, Hope

• Metaphor, generosity has brough Fezziwig great joy

• Simile, emphasis purity and being heavenly

• Fezziwig cannot contain his happiness

“The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it costs a fortune.”

Character: Fezziwig

Stave:2

Themes - Generosity, Christmas, Redemption + Change

• The Upper Class can change lives if they wish

• happiness is most important

"comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice”

Character: Fezziwig

Stave : 2

Themes - Generosity, Christmas

• Asyndetic listing, abundance and indulgence

• Fezziwig is foil to Scrooge