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    Charles (John Huffam) Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth, United Kingdom ("Charles (John Huffam) Dickens." DISCovering Authors). Dickens had an overall harsh childhood with his father (John Dickens) constantly being sent to debtors prison for living beyond his means ("Charles (John Huffam) Dickens." DISCovering Authors). Since his father was imprisoned and his mother lived with her husband in prison, Dickens was forced to live in poverty and hunger in a rented room ("Charles…

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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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    Short Story Oliver Twist

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    Shanghai,a modern metropolis on the east coast of China,there is an orphanage on the edge of city. Our protagonist Oliver Twist was born in here.He didn't have parents ,so he had to suffer the hunger and bullying.In the orphanage,every child only have a bowl of porridge for meal.Unless the festival day,no more extra food could be gotten. One day in the evening,the kids had a discussion to choose whom to ask more porridge from chef. Unfortunately,they chosen Oliver.During the dinner time,the kids…

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    Thank you, Begleiter, for the Exclamation Point in Oliver! Lionel Begleiter wrote and composed a 1960 stage musical inspired by the Charles Dickens’s book Oliver Twist; this was eventually released in 1968 as a film musical (Oliver! Background). Under director Sir Carol Reed’s supervision, an unlikely selection for directing this heartfelt film based on his previous works of war movies as of The Third Man and the Hitchcock-styled Night Train to Munich; Oliver! became a sensation for its time…

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    Why People Need To Belong

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    Do you have a need to belong? Do you want to be part of a certain group? Do members of this group except you? What are you willing to do to belong? People every day make the decision of changing themselves to belong. Many authors depict how the characters need to belong. Many things influence what you belong to. Your personality can let you belong or it can keep you out of the group. What you look like or what you like to do can influence what you belong to. Everyone has certain groups they…

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    The short story, Brokeback Mountain written by Annie Proulx, begins in the summer of 1963. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist get paired together that summer to herd sheep on Brokeback Mountain. Ennis Del Mar is the main character and narrates the book. Ennis describes him and Jack as, "high school dropout country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered, rough-spoken, inured to the stoic life." (Proulx 3) One night on the mountain their relationship led to…

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    act (1866) through his books 'Little Dorrit' and 'Oliver Twist', and the factory act (1862) through his book Oliver Twist. Charles Dicken had an impact on the Elementary School Act of 1870 through his book 'Nicholas Nickleby' This book shows that Dickens felt very strongly about education, and that everyone deserved it. In 'Nicholas Nickleby’, he wanted to expose the truth about boarding schools, and he wanted the public…

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    Caricature is a description of a person or even an object in which certain characteristics are exaggerated. Caricature is used quite often by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities. Many say that Charles Dickens created characters that are “flat” or one dimensional when using carituature in his writings such as in A Tale of Two Cities. Many say when Charles Dickens uses caricature, it leads to his characters being meaningless. The characters that he describes turns out to be “flat” or one…

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    During the book The Tale of Two Cities , Charles Dickens presented us with many themes throughout the novel. I decided to incorporate the central themes Fate, History and Sacrifice, because those select themes stood out the most to me during this novel. I chose sacrifice as a theme due to the fact that Dickens presented it to us as a necessity to achieve happiness. During the novel the revolutionaries prove that a new french republic can come about with only a heavy and terrible cost and emotion…

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    Charles Dickins was a perceptive social commentator who was aware of the conditions of the poor and afflictions of the Victorian society. Dickens succeeded in waking the Victorian public to its social abuse through his satirical novels that ridiculed the economic, moral, and social issues in the era. His novels sparked debates for moral and social reform through its social analysis as well as emerging a public opinion that was once controlled by the authorities. Through Great Expectation’s…

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