Charles Dickens rose from an arduous background. He was born in Portsmouth, England in 1812, when two years later he moved to London with his family. His father, John, was a negligent clerk who worked for the navy and later was sent to prison for debts. McCallum, an English professor, stated that "When Dickens family was released from prison his mother forced him to work at a factory, providing him with a negative attitude towards women." The previous quote shows that Dickens family forced him to do may things he did not wish to do. When he was fifteen he worked at a law firm and got lethargic, so he started writing. He then started out as a reporter and worked his way up to becoming an advancing author.

After my trip to England I had closure on the harsh part of my life. I was ready to live now. I came back to London and lived my life with joy and no regrets. I knew I did what was right.

"The Missing End To Great Expectations"

novels he matched the people and events around him with his characters. His first novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, which was published in 1837 was a great success. This was about the adventures of Samuel Pickwick and his friends. Through this novel readers addressed him by the pen name "Boz." In Perdue's analysis of Dickens he stated that "Only when the entire work was published was the author's identity revealed which launched Dickens to celebrity status"(1). In the previous quote, Dickens states that his first novel was the first step to his popularity. Dicken's twelfth and thirteenth novels, published in 1859 and 1861, seemed to be the most known novels by readers. In his twelfth novel, A Tale of Two Cities, he used his friend Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution as a reference. This book was said to be the "most popular and most famous of his works"(A Tale of Two Cities). This whole book can be summed up in one famous quote by Dickens "It was the best of times, It was the worst of times"(A Tale of Two Cities). This is so because the novel was about the struggle and heroism of his fictional character, Sidney Carton, during the French Revolution. Dickens thirteenth novel was Great Expectations. In this novel he linked his sons to the character "Pip." Dickens had given his sons everything that he had not had but still they made nothing of it. McCallum stated that "They had a knack for wasting money and seemed destined to lives of useless snobbery, much in the manner of early Pip in Great Expectations," linking Dicken's sons to Pip. In the first edition of The Pickwick Papers he linked it with his marriage to Catherine Hogarth who bore him ten children and then separated from him because of his unhappiness. Dickens created some of the most famous characters in literature and many of them were linked to the ones around him.

I stepped foot into Joe's home and there I saw him in front of the ageing fire holding a delicate baby girl. How surprised they were to see m

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