Stave 3 Quotes Flashcards
Population
‘”What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
Cratchit 1
“we’d a great deal of work”
Tiny Tim
“Spirit,” said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, “tell me if Tiny Tim will live.”
Ignorance and want
“for on his brow I see that written which
is Doom.”
Ignorance and want
“meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish”
Future of tiny time
“If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”
Description of the food
”- ‘It was a sufficient dinner for the whole family”
Description of the Cratchits
” their shoes were far from being water-proof”
Description of effects of poverty on Ignorance and Want
“Where angles might have sat enthroned, devils lurked”