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Tiny Tim (A Christmas Carol)
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Tiny Tim (real name "Tim Cratchit") is a fictional character in the classic story A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. He is the son of Bob Cratchit. The character is based on the invalid son of a friend of Dickens who owned a cotton mill in Ardwick, Manchester.[1] In the story, Tim is crippled and very ill, near death. Nevertheless, he is a very happy boy and is very much loved by his parents; he is best known for the line, "God bless us, every one!" His illness could be easily cured with the right money; however, Cratchit's low wage from Ebenezer Scrooge does not provide the funds to do so, and Cratchit dare not ask Scrooge for help.
When Scrooge is visited by The Ghost of Christmas Present he is shown just how ill Tim really is. When visited by The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come all he sees of Tim is his crutch, as Tim has died. This, and several other visions, lead Scrooge to reform his ways. At the end of the story, Dickens makes it explicit that Tim did not die, and Scrooge became a "second father" to him.
Dickens did not reveal in the book what Tiny Tim's illness was, but renal tubular acidosis has been proposed as one possibility.[2][3]
- ^ Seacock, Doug. Charles Dickens - writing from life (HTTP). Egypt Cotton Times. Retrieved on 2007-05-05.
- ^ Lewis D (1992). "What was wrong with Tiny Tim?". Am J Dis Child 146 (12): 1403-7. PMID 1340779.
- ^ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977391,00.html
- A Christmas Carol, available at Project Gutenberg.
- A Christmas Carol - In Prose - A Ghost Story of Christmas (with illustrations) - Special Collections, University of Glasgow
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