He feels they should be working and not scrounging for food and money, and if there isn't work then they should be taken to the workhouses or prisons, a thought that many wealthy people of the time had.
Scrooge does not believe in giving to the poor because he values money and success above all else. He sees poverty as a sign of personal failure and weakness, and believes that helping the poor will only encourage laziness and dependency. He is also selfish and lacks empathy for others.
He thought, through his ignorance that poverty at the level suffered in London of the time was self inflicted . He thought that those who were poor should go to prisons or the workhouses, both of which Scrooge felt he was paying for through his taxes
Scrooge told the two visitors that he was too busy to engage with them and that he did not believe in their supernatural nature. He dismissed them rudely and did not want to listen to what they had to say.
Scrooge calls Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit's son, a poor boy in "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.
Bob Cratchit, Scrooge's employee, asked him to donate to the poor during Christmas time. Scrooge initially refused but eventually agreed to donate after his encounters with the ghosts.
Bob Cratchit
The poor man who works for Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" is Bob Cratchit, who is portrayed as a dedicated and hardworking employee despite his meager wages and poor working conditions.
That would be Bob Cratchit.
Scrooge is to stingy.
Scrooge believes that the poor should go to prisons and workhouses instead of relying on charity from others.
In ' A Christmas Carol' Dickens was trying to portray the importance of giving to the needy and 'loving thy neighbour'.
In truth, Dickens never reveals the status of Scrooge's mother in the story. We are given to believe that his father was stern, perhaps even violent in temper, and was not fond of his son and heir. This attitude remained until Scrooge was a young man, and then was allowed to return home with his sister, after his father had softened his attitude towards him. But of the mother we have no information. Not even a mention.
what is anothe word for giving to the poor
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