In the Christmas Carol, Tiny Tim who was Bob Cratchit’s cripple son, he represents the overwhelming goodness of the Christmas spirit. In Stave 3, we are shown to a dinner at the Cratchit’s house hold. Bob comes in Tiny Tim on his back, they discuss Tiny Tim’s good heart and his growing strength. When scrooge asks, the ghost informs him that unless his future has change, Tiny Tim will die. “ ‘I see a vacant seat’, replied the ghost, ‘in the poor chimney corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the chid will die.” As Tiny time is representing the poor and the suffering and scrooge representing the rest of society. The Ghost of Christmas Present has stated that Tiny Tim will only die of the future of the society does not change.
The protagonist, Scrooge is a cold, miserly creditor whose redemption to kindness and selflessness forms. Scrooge represents the Victorian rich who neglect the poor and think only of their own well-being. When Scrooge was a young boy he was sent to a boarding school was shown to be neglected by his peers and by his father, the young Scrooge seemed determined to live only for himself as he aged. “Home, for good and all. Home, forever and ever. Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home’s like heaven!” This seemed that Scrooge was neglected when he was a young child and was sent away to a boarding school. Scrooge may also be part of the child labour, having to work so that he could just eat for the day. As Ghost of Christmas Past