... that his rebirth is infectious. When he wakes up and is happy and smiling and in a wonderful mood, everyone else sees him and automatically start smiling and being happy. It's as if it is a miracle to them that he is being kind and giving and loving. Dickens shows us that miracles can happen. The Cratchits are heirs of spiritual awakening. When Tiny Tim cries "God Bless Us, Every One ... ," he is emblematic of the cripple who finds God in his own affliction, as ... to all of his readers. Through Scrooge, Dickens attempts to embody symbolic, social, psychological, and mythic truth (Bende...

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