HOW IS POVERTY PRESENTED IN A CHRISTMAS CAROL QUOTES

“Once upon a time — of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve – old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house… external heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge.”

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(Narrator, Stave 1)

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“Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, ‘My dear Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to see me?’ No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o’clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of him.”

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(Narrator, Stave 1)

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“At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge… it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute.”

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(Gentleman, Stave 1)

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“There are some upon this earth of yours who claim to know us… spirit! remove me from this place!”

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(Scrooge to the Ghost of Christmas Present, Stave 2)

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“God bless you, merry gentleman! May nothing you dismay! God bless you!”

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(Bob Cratchit to the gentlemen, Stave 3)

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“They are man’s… but they are too often deserted by those who have struggled so hard to save them.”

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(Ghost of Christmas Present, Stave 3)

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“Foreign starvation… this boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree.”

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(Ghost of Christmas Present, Stave 3) MISS GRANDPARENTS QUOTES

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“Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more… to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father.”

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(Narrator, Stave 5)

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“A great deal of good it’s ever done you!… If you hadn’t been too much a stingy with yourself, he’d have had somebody to look after him when he was struck with death, instead of lying in this miserable hole.”

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(Mrs. Dilber to Scrooge, Stave 4)

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“Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief… tell me that he will be spared.”

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(Scrooge to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Stave 4)

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“Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point… can any man deny that your land is in the very depths of poverty?”

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(Scrooge to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Stave 4)

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“Opened worn-out boots, flannel waistcoats, torn jackets, show us the shadows of those poor unsatisfactory garments.”