A figure is never given just an indication it was a very large sum because of some back payments that need to be made.
the responsibilities of the rich to the poor are to help the poor and if they have children or are poor; the rich must help them by lending them money, or maybe even give them money to start of with.
If a person says they are dirt poor, it means that they are extremely poor. It indicates that they have dirt, but not much else.
Following his change of heart scrooge hurries to find the two businessmen to offer a large donation and then goes on to seek forgiveness of his nephew Fred
She calmed down and tamed their father and convinced him to allow Scrooge back from his boarding school, where he was so unhappy.
I am a poor family and my parents give me 100$ a week
He ignorantly believed that prisons and workhouse for which he paid taxes would be sufficient
No, in the beginning of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, Scrooge refuses to donate to charity, saying that the poor should go to workhouses or prisons instead. It is only after his visits from the ghosts that he becomes charitable and generous.
Scrooge calls Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit's son, a poor boy in "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.
Bob Cratchit
Workhouses. or prisons
The poor man who works for Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" is Bob Cratchit, who is portrayed as a dedicated and hardworking employee despite his meager wages and poor working conditions.
That would be Bob Cratchit.
The two portly gentlemen
You should give money to the poor because if we all give money to the poor than there will be no more poor people and Australia and many other Countries will be much better places to be plus it will be a much more merry environment
"Hmmph".
He calls them an addition to the surplus population.
That he was collecting for the poor. He hoped that Scrooge would be generous at this special time. Scrooge questions wheather the prosions, workhouse and treadmill were still in ooperation. he is told they were. Scrooge is pleased to hear this as he is contributing to their opeation in his taxes