A Christmas Carol Tiny Tim Character Profile

A Christmas Carol Tiny Tim Character Profile

1. Personality

   • Kind and well meaning
     • "'God bless us every one!'" -Tiny Tim (S3)
   • Thoughtful and wise
     • "'He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas day, who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.'" -Bob Cratchit to Mrs Cratchit (S3)
   • Innocent
     • "Spirit of Tiny Tim, thy childish essence was from God!" -(S4)
   • Virtuous
     • "'...we recollect how patient and how mild he was...'" -Bob Cratchet to his family after Tim's death (S4)

2. Background

   • Disabled
     • "Alas for Tiny Tim, he bore a little crutch, and had his limbs supported by an iron frame!" -(S3)
   • Two futures
     • Scrooge helps the family and becomes a second father to Tiny Tim
       • "...and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father." -(S5)
     • Tiny Tim dies because of the poverty he lives in
       • "'He was not only very ill, but dying, then.'" -Mrs Cratchet (S4)

3. Context

   • Represents poverty and Christmas Spirit
   • He is used to pull at Victorian reader's heart strings
   • Shows harsh reality of poverty in Victorian London
     • Almost half of funerals were of children under 10