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maryines2008
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What are three significant things we learn about the Cratchit's?

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Posted by maryines2008 on Sunday March 15, 2009 at 4:50 PM and tagged with a christmas carol, charles dickens.

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  1. pmiranda2857
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    In the story, the reader learns that although the Cratchit family is poor, struggles to make ends meet financially, they are a loving family.  They have a very close family, there is a warmth, rich with joy among the members of the family.  This is what really sustains them, along with their strong faith in God. 

    The Cratchits are good, Christian people, who won't speak ill of Mr. Scrooge, even though he is a miserly, stingy, cruel man.  They wish him well, drink to his health and as the founder of the feast.  He is respected in the Cratchit home, no one else respects Mr. Scrooge outside of Fred his nephew.

    We also learn that the Cratchits are struggling to keep their young son, Tiny Tim alive in the presence of his serious illness, without money to treat Tiny Tim, inevitably, he will die.    

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    Posted by pmiranda2857 on Tuesday March 17, 2009 at 2:19 PM