Zusammenfassung der Ressource
A Christmas Carol Tiny Tim Character Profile
- Personality
- Kind and well meaning
- "'God bless us every one!'" -Tiny Tim (S3)
- Thoughtful and wise
- "'He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas day, who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.'" -Bob Cratchit to Mrs Cratchit (S3)
- Innocent
- "Spirit of Tiny Tim, thy childish essence was from God!" -(S4)
- Virtuous
- "'...we recollect how patient and how mild he was...'" -Bob Cratchet to his family after Tim's death (S4)
- Background
- Disabled
- "Alas for Tiny Tim, he bore a little crutch, and had his limbs supported by an iron frame!" -(S3)
- Two futures
- Scrooge helps the family and becomes a second father to Tiny Tim
- "...and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father." -(S5)
- Tiny Tim dies because of the poverty he lives in
- "'He was not only very ill, but dying, then.'" -Mrs Cratchet (S4)
- Context
- Represents poverty and Christmas Spirit
- He is used to pull at Victorian reader's heart strings
- Shows harsh reality of poverty in Victorian London
- Almost half of funerals were of children under 10