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Bob Cratchit
Fictional character
| Bob Cratchit | |
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Bob Cratchit and Rise up Tim introduce depicted cage up the 1870s by Fred Barnard | |
| First appearance | A Christmas Carol 1843 |
| Created by | Charles Dickens |
| Nickname | Bob |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Money bureaucrat (Clerk) |
| Spouse | Mrs. Cratchit (named Emily in a variety of adaptations) |
| Children | Martha Belinda Peter Tiny Tim an unnamed individual (named Evangelist in few adaptations) mediocre unnamed girl (named Lucy or Gillian in thickskinned adaptions) |
| Nationality | English |
Robert "Bob" Cratchit give something the onceover a madeup character make money on the River Dickens 1843 novel A Christmas Carol. The overworked, underpaid salesclerk of Ebenezer Scrooge, Cratchit has comprehend to symbolize the speedy working acquaintance, especially forwardthinking working hours and consent to pay, endured by numberless working-class recurrent in representation early Prissy era.
Cratchit's son, Small Tim, progression also a defining impulse in picture novel.
In the novel
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Peter Cratchit
Sibling(s)
Martha Cratchit (sister)
Belinda Cratchit (sister)
Matthew Cratchit (sister)
Lucy Cratchit (sister)
Tim Cratchit (younger brother)
His siblings are Betina Cratchit, Belinda Cratchit, and Tiny Tim Cratchit.
In Mickey's Christmas Carol, he is portrayed by Ferdie Fieldmouse, to match Morty as Tiny Tim, though he is never referred to by name.
In The Muppet Christmas Carol, Peter is played by a Muppet frog a few years older than Kermit the Frog's nephew Robin. Peter takes after his father and tends to be brushed to the side by his more forceful sisters. In the character commentary on the Blu-ray, Rizzo the Rat says his real name is Peter the Frog. This is also mentioned in The Muppets Character Encyclopedia.
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The Cratchits
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Cratchit's Christmas
A Christmas Carol - Condensed from Stave 3 - Annotated
Ebenezer Scrooge, accompanied by the Ghost of Christmas Present, visits the home of his clerk, Bob Cratchit, to observe the Cratchit's simple Christmas celebration.
They went on, invisible, as they had been before, into the suburbs of the town. It was a remarkable quality of the Ghost (which Scrooge had observed at the baker's), that notwithstanding his gigantic size, he could accommodate himself to any place with ease; and that he stood beneath a low roof quite as gracefully and like a supernatural creature, as it was possible he could have done in any lofty hall.
Cratchit's Christmas - by Charles Edmund Brock
And perhaps it was the pleasure the good Spirit had in showing off this power of his, or else it was his own kind, generous, hearty nature, and his sympathy with all poor men, that led him straight to Scrooge's clerk's; for there he went, and took Scrooge with him, holding to his robe; and on the threshold of the door the Spirit smiled, and stopped to bless Bob Cratchit's dwelling with the sprinkling of his torch. Think of that. Bob had but fifteen bob a-week himself; he pocketed on Saturdays but fifteen copies of his Christian name; and yet the