Comparing Dickens to the MEN
In this essay I will be comparing an article written by the Manchester Evening News, about homelessness and a piece of writing written by Charles Dickens, also about homelessness.
Although these two pieces of writing are about people living on the streets that is more or less all that they have in common.
To begin with the article written by the Manchester Evening News is, despite the chatty style and standard vocabulary quite somber . As well as this the article is written in a way that you would be expect to see nowhere else but in a newspaper. In contrast the Dickens piece is theatrical and is opposites to the way the article is written as Dickens with a grand vocabulary and due to its dramatic nature you could easily identify this as a piece of fiction. Although surprisingly, it’s not.
Furthermore, the article is written for a purpose, this purpose being to alert the citizens of Manchester of the steadily rising number of homeless people and educe sympathy. Yet Dickens’ piece of writing is virtually romantic. Dickens wrote this …show more content…
And yet the article for Manchester Evening News, written with the purpose to inform, doesn’t do much to inform us what it’s like to be homeless. Granted the Estonian man has broken English but we are only provided with “It’s not good.” We are given an essence of what it’s like, but only from an outsiders perspective. In contrast, the it is made very clear of what the homeless man in Dickens’ piece thinks of his situation. This being that death is already near. He is depressed to the point of suicide and perhaps because everything else he has had in the world has been taken from him, he wants to be in control of the one thing he has left. And not wanting that being taken away from him he decides the best movement forwards is to end it. The thought of a rusty knife distresses him, he prefers to
In this essay I will be comparing an article written by the Manchester Evening News, about homelessness and a piece of writing written by Charles Dickens, also about homelessness.
Although these two pieces of writing are about people living on the streets that is more or less all that they have in common.
To begin with the article written by the Manchester Evening News is, despite the chatty style and standard vocabulary quite somber . As well as this the article is written in a way that you would be expect to see nowhere else but in a newspaper. In contrast the Dickens piece is theatrical and is opposites to the way the article is written as Dickens with a grand vocabulary and due to its dramatic nature you could easily identify this as a piece of fiction. Although surprisingly, it’s not.
Furthermore, the article is written for a purpose, this purpose being to alert the citizens of Manchester of the steadily rising number of homeless people and educe sympathy. Yet Dickens’ piece of writing is virtually romantic. Dickens wrote this …show more content…
And yet the article for Manchester Evening News, written with the purpose to inform, doesn’t do much to inform us what it’s like to be homeless. Granted the Estonian man has broken English but we are only provided with “It’s not good.” We are given an essence of what it’s like, but only from an outsiders perspective. In contrast, the it is made very clear of what the homeless man in Dickens’ piece thinks of his situation. This being that death is already near. He is depressed to the point of suicide and perhaps because everything else he has had in the world has been taken from him, he wants to be in control of the one thing he has left. And not wanting that being taken away from him he decides the best movement forwards is to end it. The thought of a rusty knife distresses him, he prefers to