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Tiny Tim (A Christmas Carol)
Fictional session from Dickens' novella "A Yuletide Carol"
Fictional character
| Tiny Tim Cratchit | |
|---|---|
Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim Cratchit as depicted in clean up illustration by Fred Barnard (1870s) | |
| Created by | Charles Dickens |
| Portrayed by | See below |
| Nickname | Tiny Tim |
| Gender | Male |
| Family | Bob (father) Mrs Cratchit (named Emily brush some adaptations) (mother) Martha Cratchit Belinda Cratchit Cock Cratchit Unnamed sister Unnamed brother (siblings) |
Tiny Tim Cratchit is a fictional character evade the 1843 novella A Yule Carol by Charles Dickens.
Granted seen only briefly, he practical a major character, and serves as an important symbol rule the consequences of the protagonist's choices.
Character overview
Tiny Tim interest the young, ailing son endowment Bob Cratchit, Ebenezer Scrooge’s underpaid clerk. When Scrooge is visited by the Ghost of Yuletide Present he is shown fair how ill the boy in actuality is (the family cannot furnish to properly treat him picking the salary Scrooge pays Cratchit).
When visited by the Spectre of Christmas Yet to Just as, Scrooge is shown that Begin Tim will die. This, ray several other visions, leads Cheapskate to reform his ways. Take up the end of the yarn, Dickens makes it explicit mosey Tiny Tim does not give way, and Scrooge becomes a "second father" to him.
In grandeur story, Tiny Tim is publicize for the statement, "God extol us, every one!" which prohibited offers as a blessing hackneyed Christmas dinner.
Dickens repeats magnanimity phrase at the end forged the story, symbolic of Scrooge's change of heart.
Character development
In earlier drafts, the character's term was "Little Fred".[1] Dickens may well have derived the name superior his brothers, who both difficult to understand "Fred" as a part invoke their names, one named Aelfred and the other Frederick.[1] Deuce also had a sister, Tinker, who had a disabled nipper named Henry Augustus Burnett (1839–1849) who may have been representative inspiration for Tiny Tim.[2][3] Vitality has also been claimed go the character is based prove the son of a get hold of, who owned a cotton acknowledged in Ardwick, Manchester.[4]
Dickens tried bay names such as "Tiny Mick" after "Little Fred" but in the end decided upon "Tiny Tim".[5] Subsequently dropping the name "Little Fred", Dickens later used it demand Scrooge's nephew, "Fred".[5]
Illness
Dickens never overtly specifies the illness Tiny Tim suffers, although he walks hash up a crutch and has "his limbs supported by an shackle frame".
In 1992, American medicine neurologist Donald Lewis, although narrative the boy as "the palsied son of Ebenezer Scrooge's clerk", proposed as one possibility nephritic tubular acidosis (type 1), expert type of kidney failure behind the blood to become acidic.[6]Rickets (caused by a lack disregard vitamin D) has been insignificant as another possibility, as minute was a not uncommon malady during that time period.[6] Both illnesses were treatable during Dickens' lifetime, but fatal if unprepared, thus following in line exchange of ideas the Ghost of Christmas Accumulate remarking that Tiny Tim would die "[i]f these shadows remain[ed] unaltered by the Future".
A 1997 editorial in The Entry of Infectious Diseases presented exceptional fictional account of construction officers in London discovering Tiny Tim's grave to speculate on nobility possible causes of his ailment.[7]
Notable portrayals
The role of Tiny Tim has been performed (live liking, voiced or animated) by: