It is said that what you learn and experience in your childhood will reflect upon your attitude and actions in the future. Charles Dickens who is one of the most popular writers in the history of literature, reflected his childhood and his upbringing in most of the works that he wrote. He spent most of his childhood in London and Kent both of which appear frequently in his novels. In 1824, being

only twelve years old, he was forced to work in a shoe polish factory. This was a big change for him after living an upper middle class life all his life. This is one of the experiences that he hated the most, in fact, it haunted him throughout his life having a sence of humiliation and abandonment. He describes similar experi

ences to those that plagued his mind in his novel, David Copperfield which was the story of a boy that missed out on his childhood in exchange for hard labor and plenty of responsibilities.

adult life. The later novels he wrote went from the comic tales based one one central character into works of great insight, relevance and seriousness. In most cases anyway, he portrayed part of himself into the characters that filled his popular novels. He performed many lectures, including one in the United States in

1842 in opposition to slavery which clearly shows that even though he was wealthy by then and didn't really need to do all this, he still recollected his childhood experiences and felt bad for people that were taken advantage of like he was.

In Dickens' Great Expectations, he gives us a se

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