Poverty (ACC)

Question 1

“Are there no prisons?”
“die… and decrease the surplus population”
Stave 1

Answer 1

decrease - verb, sounds like a statistic, dehumanising and making the poor into numbers, very businesslike. shows lack of care.
surplus - adjective, overspill, the unwanted population

Question 2

“There is nothing…so hard as poverty”
Stave 2

Answer 2

nothing - negative, shows

Question 3

“his threadbare clothes darned up and brushed, to look seasonable”
“punched and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds”
Stave 3

Question 4

“If I can be of service to you in any way… Pray come to me.”
Stave 5

Answer 4

Fred shows his generosity to Cratchits after Tiny Tim dies, a model of how rich should be and hos the wealthy have a responsibility to care for poor because it does make a difference

Question 5

“A great many back payments are included in it, I assure you. Will you do me that favour?”
Stave 5

Question 6

Purpose of Poverty?

Answer 6

Dickens wanted to change how the poor was overlooked
ignoance if the wealthy would only cause more problems
during industrial revolution, gap between poor and rich became even wider, factory owners wealth increased at the expense of the poor
shows scrioges wealth as although being large, not truly satisfactory compared to the true happiness the Cratchits, although poor are experiencing
being miserly does not bring true satisfaction but being grateful for everything allows greater fulfilment.