Charles Dickens & Olivier Twist

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Charles Dickens & Olivier Twist

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Charles dickens was born on the  , in Portsmouth. Charles was the second of 8 children and he lived a poor upbringing and he and his family struggled for money too keep them alive. Dickens was not rich enough too go to school as a youngster and taught himself everything he needed to succeed in life. At the age of 12 Dickens started his job in a factory pasting labels on the jars of thick , this was enough too pay for his family’s rent, He then moved on to be a law clerk.

Dickens never forgot his hard childhood and always involved this in his novels, he always wanted to get the point across about the poverty and danger in England at this time. However in 1932 Dickens luck was about to change he started to write stories and draw sketches about London life an they were a great success , he was asked to write some more due to great demand. Then in 1838 Dickens published what was going to be one of if not his finest stories Olivier Twist which was extremely popular not just in England but in America as the Americans demanded the different chapters off the story. The story Olivier Twist was directed at the poor lifestyle of the lower class people at the time, Dickens tried hard to get this across to the people reading his book. Dickens wanted to shock the readers and show what criminals were really like and to reveal the horrors and violence in the London slums

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In the 1800’s there was a big difference between the upper and lower class people, the lower class people had such a hard life an the life expectance was very low. Olivier lived the same life as a lot of kids at that time, not knowing there mothers or father led to a life on the street or pick pocketing as Olivier is led to do form a young age.

 There was a huge difference between certain people at this time e.g. men and woman. Woman at this time were the property of men, women rarely made money as ...

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