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A Christmas Carol

In Our Time: Culture

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Dickens's Loneliness as a Child

Scrooge redeemed, tiny tim restored to life. And in that sense, a profoundly christian text. But i also think that dickens realized that for ordinary people, sometimes institutionalized forms of religion workwer quite off putting. He felt more generally lected, and especially by his father,. who was a kind of micawber, mister micawber kind of figure. We don't see scrooger's father. So that's not part of this, not. But what is, there's that sense of being perhaps abandoned by a father figur and left to find solace in an imaginative inner life with books.

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