The editor of one edition of 'A Christmas Carol' wrote "A story so admirably told, the details of place, of time, of person so

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The editor of one edition of 'A Christmas Carol' wrote "A story so admirably told, the details of place, of time, of person so dexterously made real for us" How does Dickens achieve this? How does he 'A Christmas Carol' a story which "No one could help but enjoy"

In this essay I am going to be writing about the different techniques in which Dickens uses, and by using these bring people, place and time to life. Dickens cleaver use of techniques throughout this book really makes us feel as if we are actually there are selves. I think that the reason why dickens is so good at making this all seem so real to us is because when he was younger he grew up as a child in London himself, which I think would explain why this book has so much detail in it. A lot of what happens in this book most probably happened to Dickens as a boy as he used to be quite poor himself, an example of this is the cratchits Christmas dinner which I think was based on what Christmas used to be like for Dickens. Dickens motive for writing this book was