A Christmas Carol

List ten words that Dickens uses to describe the two children discovered beneath the Ghost’s robe. What does the Ghost say are their names?

List TEN words.

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Hi. The childrens names are Ignorance (the boy) and Want (the girl). They are under the robe of the Ghost of Christmas Present.

"Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility. Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into shreds. Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing. No change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade, through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread." ... "This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. 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. Deny it!” cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city." Stave III

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https://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Dickens/Carol/Dickens_Carol.pdf