Dear Reader, I would like you to know that I have chosen to write about Charles Dickens simply because I fell in love with his two widely known books, A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations. Dickens book A Christmas Carol, which has now been turned into a movie that every kid loves to watch on Christmas is one of my favorites. Dickens was a well-known man who wrote books about poverty and sadness, he could relate because of the fact that his family did indeed live in poverty. Dickens dad was a clerk and his mother was a school teacher/school director. Dickens family eventually had to move because of the fact that they were so poor and his family needed work. Dickens father went into debt which resulted him being thrown into debt prison. Dickens was forced to leave school again for the second time to help make money for the family and help earn money to get his father out of prison and out of debt. Dickens was only making about six shillings a week but eventually he made enough and …show more content…
Dickens is someone that hid too much from a lot of people including his wife. Dickens married a woman and they eventually had ten children. After a tragic death in the family, Dickens found himself in love with another woman, now sources cannot prove to weather he was already with this other woman before or after him and his wife had separated. The man was a "love machine" and he wasn't going to settle down. It wasn’t until after he had traveled the world a bit more that he had met another woman, keep in mind he was will the second lady. When I read all this information in makes me think that this is what may have caused Dickens to write such amazing books and books that have so much meaning. Dickens didn’t write to please the world he wrote them so he could express himself with what was going on in his life with living him poverty and having to grow up at an early