Imagine you are Bob Crachit. Write a diary entry about the last night's Christmas dinner you had with your family.
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Answer:Bob Cratchit is Ebenezer Scrooge's impoverished clerk in Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol.' Cratchit, who has a disabled son at home, is able to experience joy despite his difficulties at home and at work.
Bob Cratchit at Work
Bob Cratchit works as Ebenezer Scrooge's clerk. As A Christmas Carol begins, Cratchit is hard at work in Scrooge's accounting office on Christmas Eve. Scrooge's door is open so he can keep constant vigil on the clerk. Scrooge is so stingy that Bob Cratchit is forced to work in his office with only a small fire for warmth because Scrooge will only provide him with a small amount of coal.
Bob Cratchit is depicted as wearing a long comforter or scarf to try to stay warm at work. Cratchit even 'tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed.'
When Scrooge's nephew arrives to invite the old man to join him for Christmas dinner, Scrooge declines, saying that Christmas has never brought good to anyone. Bob Cratchit overhears Scrooge's nephew argue that Christmas has many benefits, and before he realizes it, Cratchit applauds the nephew's words. Scrooge threatens to fire him immediately. Readers learn that Scrooge pays Cratchit only 15 shillings a week.
Bob Cratchit at Play
At closing time, Scrooge begrudgingly releases Bob Cratchit from his duties. Scrooge resents the custom of allowing employees paid time off for holidays, and he urges Bob Cratchit to come in early the day after Christmas to make up for his time off.
Bob Cratchit, like nearly everyone else except Scrooge, is excited about the holiday. 'The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dangling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas-eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman's-buff.' Here, we see that Bob Cratchit is able to find joy despite the rather grim circumstances of his life.
Bob Cratchit at Home
At home, Bob Cratchit is depicted as a loving husband and father. He is shown carrying Tiny Tim home from church. In addition to this depiction of Cratchit's young son as a physical burden, the child is no doubt a financial burden on the cash-strapped family as well. Yet all of the Cratchits adore the young child who must use a crutch and body brace to walk.
Scrooge is able to see inside the Cratchit home thanks to the spirits who are sent by Jacob Marley's ghost. Tiny Tim is depicted as a courageous boy who is able to enjoy his life despite his circumstances. Clearly, this positive attitude comes from Bob Cratchit, who is able to shut out his difficulties at work once he leaves the office.
This image of the Cratchit family appears to affect Scrooge a great deal, and he hopes that Tiny Tim will have a better future than the spirit predicts. In one scene, Scrooge is shown the Cratchits following Tiny Tim's death; it is clear that they are heartbroken over the loss of this treasured member of the family.
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