Authors write stories for many reasons, such as to entertain, to inform, to persuade, to tell a life story about the author, and even to criticize others. Charles Dickens’s stories of Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and A Tale of Two Cities fall right into that category. Many of Charles Dickens’s works have become famous through his style of writing, which was to tell his stories from his time period. Many of Dickens’s works are read in modern day society in high school and college curriculums, such as Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities. Charles Dickens wrote Oliver Twist and several other works with the purpose to unveil his life story from the time period in which he lived. The childhood and upbringing of an author …show more content…
Much to Charles’s misfortune at a young age, he was forced back into the workplace, which later ended up being a spike in his writing career, at age fifteen to help contribute to the poor family’s income. This job, unlike his first one, became the foundation of the pyramid society calls Charles Dickens’s legacy.
Specific jobs that someone possesses can help decide one’s future or proceed to help discover one’s hidden talents. Charles worked as a freelancer in London court rooms, he worked as a newspaper reporter, and eventually sketched pictures under the fake name of “Boz”. While continuing to submit sketches, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club began publication which became wildly successful and popular from the readers. At the same time, Dickens found himself head publisher of the Bentley’s Miscellany magazine, in which he published Oliver Twist in monthly
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His career started to uptick after his five-month stay in the United States with his wife because a several years after he wrote one of the greatest of his classics, A Christmas Carol. (Biography.com Editors). Charles Dickens had a difficult, yet rewarding and success-filled life through a childhood of being poor and thrust into a workplace at a young age.
Charles Dickens not only wrote to tell a bit of the story of his life but also to criticize the government and laws of Dickens’s era. Dickens goes straight after and criticizes the New Poor Law through the fan-favorite, Oliver Twist.
“Rather than finding this treatment motivational it broke the spirit of many people forced to live there [workhouses]. The adventures of young Oliver Twist make this point. Dickens also touches on this topic in other works. In A Christmas Carol, Scrooge says that “those who are badly off” must go to workhouses or other places like them. The reply is, “Many can’t go there; and many would rather die.”
Charles Dickens used his novels to point out truths about Victorian England that polite society tried to ignore.” (Oliver