Question by bob: why did the ghost of christmas present quote scrooge on 2 occasions?
in chapter 3 of a Christmas carol

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Answer by Miss Chief
It is from the Ghost of Christmas Present that Scrooge is confronted by his own words; his own insensitivity is thrown back at him and leaves him overcome with “penitence and grief.”

The spirit shares a vision of Tiny Tim’s crutch, carefully preserved by the fireplace. Scrooge asks if Tim will die. The ghost replied, “I see a vacant seat in the chimney corner, and a crutch without an owner. If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die!” When Scrooge protests, the spirit quotes Scrooge’s past unkind comments verbatim “If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

The spirit finally reveals to Scrooge two emaciated children, subhuman in appearance and loathsome to behold, clinging to his robes, and names the boy as Ignorance and the girl as Want. The spirit warns Scrooge, “Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased”, underscoring the book’s social message. The spirit once again quotes Scrooge, who asks if the grotesque children have “no refuge, no resource,” and the spirit retorts with Scrooge’s same words, “Are there no prisons, no workhouses?” filling Scrooge with self-loathing.

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