Saturday, June 29, 2013

What is Jerry Cruncher's secret nighttime activity?

There was a long-practiced method of getting bodies for the scientists and doctors to practice on, and it didn't involve getting the consent of the deceased prior to them kicking the bucket.  Jerry Cruncher goes out at night and digs up bodies so that he can sell them to doctors, professors of medicine, etc. for use in classes, examinations, studies, etc.


The interesting part of this is that Jerry considers what he does to be an absolutely productive and important part of society and of life in general while he regards prayer and other such religious activities as a waste of time.


But don't fret, he does of course, like many of Dickens' characters, vow to change his life before the story runs out of time.

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