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    In the novel ‘Oliver Twist’ by Charles Dickens, a main focus is the treatment of the poor. The novel was written to emphasis how the poor and criminals were treated in the 19th century. The idea that material status determines the treatment a person receives is a main theme in the story. Charles Dickens gives a new view to the paupers of this time period by presenting them as real people with their own stories of sufferings. Many of the characters in the story are of pauper status and are not…

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    and get home back to my siblings. On the way I must remember to buy a loaf of bread, milk, flour and tea, which should be about 15 cents if I’m correct. My maths isn’t that good because my father forced me out of school last year when I was 13, but my mother wanted me to stay in school to become very intelligent and…

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    decide to kidnap Ebenezer Dorset’s child and offer a ransom. Bill and Sam take the child up to an unseen cave on a hill away from the town. The child is a feisty child who always wants to play. His Indian name is Red Chief, notwithstanding that his real name's Johnny. Johnny enjoys being able to have Bill to play along with. Bill…

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    A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is a beloved tale that people of all ages have loved for its emotional and moral appeal. It is a story focusing on the life of Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy and cold-hearted money-lender, who is visited by four ghostly apparitions who convince him together to change his merciless ways. At the beginning of this tale, Scrooge does not recognize the effects of his greed, so the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future take it upon themselves to show him how…

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    OLIVER TWIST by CHARLES DICKENS OLIVER TWIST or THE PARISH BOY’S PROGRESS is a novel written by Charles Dickens and was serialised in 1837-39. The novel revolves around an orphan named Oliver Twist, who was born in a workhouse and was sent to a parochial orphanage where all the children were ill-treated and underfed. Twist runs away to London after escaping from the orphanage and there, he encounters with The Artful Dodger, one among the gang of juvenile pick-pocketers who are under the…

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    Great Expectations is a novel composed by Charles Dickens, this novel is set in early Victorian England, a period when tremendous social changes were influencing the country. It is a story told in the first person narration by a moderately aged Pip, who is glancing back at his adolescence and youth. The story takes its starting when Pip is just 6 or 7 years of age and is living with his sister and her metal forger spouse Joe in light of the fact that his parents are dead. Great Expectations…

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    Poverty In Charles Dickens

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    often shows that people use their condition to make people feel bad and give money to them. Poverty plays a major roll in Dickens writings, he shows people that no matter how a person appears, you should treat them with the same respect that you treat yourself with. The people of Victorian London in that time didn’t have all the things that we have today, they had to play in alleys, while we play in our yards and they had to dress with what we considered rags, while we can choose whatever we…

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    Dickens was born on 6 January 1837 and he died on 20 Ju1y 1896. He is a we11-known Eng1ish nove1ist who is remembered ti11 today because of his bri11iant prose. Some of his exce11ent and notab1e works inc1ude Great Expectations, Hard Times and O1iver Twist. He was a faithfu1 son to his era the Victorian Age who had depicted in detai1 the status of women, and the socia1 structure at that time in Hard Times which in turn gives us a c1ear-cut idea of Victorian times .Char1es Dickens was very…

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    Throughout chapter five of Charles Dicken’s “A Tale of Two Cities,” anaphora and asyndeton are utilized in order to depict how the poverty in France was driven into the minds and lives of the peasants due to the negligence of the rich, conceiving a revolution lead by the people. Dickens renders the situation for the peasants in France to be extremely impoverished, such that while describing the peasants’ lifestyles, he inserts the word “Hunger” at the beginning of each sentence. This use of…

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    this uncompromising rationalism, which Louisa was impacted by, is best seen in Gradgrind's response to one of his unsuccessful students, Sissy Jupe. In the text, Gradgrind and Sissy are having a conversation about ending her studies in Gradgrind's school, when Gradgrind says, "'No. The course you [Sissy] pursued, you pursued according…

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