... would have found more favor with some people, if the Providence had seen fit to make them only hands, or, like the lower creatures of the seashore, only hands and stomachs- lived a certain Stephen Blackpool, for forty years of age." Dickens comments on the terrible lives of workers. The word " generically" presents that the workers can't rise in the world because they have no education and have not enough ... money to make their lives better and comfortable. Their children must face the hardship such as working hard and living in poverty like their ancestors ... cunning, not honest, no...

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• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

... with age; and yet the face had not a wrinkle in it". It is young, and like a child, because Scrooge was a child in his past, which he will be shown, and it is old because his youth is in the past, and Scrooge is now old. The ghost is dressed in white, "It wore a tunic of the purest white", because it is angelic, and pure, and symbolises the innocence of ... childhood; something which Scrooge has lost. "It held a branch of fresh, green holly in it's hand". This is to symbolise Christmas, as one of the aims of the spirits is to help Scrooge to re-discover the joy of Christmas. "It had it'...

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• Approx Pages: 23
• Grade Level: High School