Which theme is best reflected in this excerpt from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol? There was nothing of high mark in this. They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbroker’s. But, they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time; and when they faded, and looked happier yet in the bright sprinklings of the Spirit’s torch at parting, Scrooge had his eye upon them, and especially on Tiny Tim, until the last.

A.
the importance of making money in life
B.
the value of family ties over money and possessions
C.
the satisfaction of earning a living for one’s family
D.
the abundance of wisdom that resides in youth