Jesus Perez
Mrs. Manning
English VI
March 7, 2016
"Charles Dickens life and Goals"
No English author was more famous than Charles Dickens because he was the number one writer in the 19th century (Brittanica school). Stories in the 19th century were really valuable to some people and they would read them because technology was not that popular thing in that century as it is today, because today we don't really read book anymore and so books are getting behind and more new technology is coming our way making it easy for us instead of reading novels or stories. So when Charles Dickens started writing people would enjoyed reading them. He was the second writer because Shakespeare was already writing stories and people would like his stories as well and till today we still read his stories in English Class, but then Charles Dickens became so famous as well. So we can say he was the second copy of Shakespeare because of stories about them or things that would happen to them in that century. Charles never wanted to stop writing novels because that was one of his main thing he liked to do. The main thing also was to entertain people with his experiences so they could of learned from him because he would already been though those things he would write about on his novels. Dickens childhood was difficult at times and other times it was good, which influenced him more later on in his writing and also the people because they would make him happy because they would read them and get advices from his stories and learn not to do the same things as he did and also how he used his fame when he traveled to visit with people and give speeches.
To begin with Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in a place called Portsmouth, England.("Biography Editors"). He was a really good kid at times and other times he was more like a trouble maker and his parents would get mad at him. When he was growing, their family had to move from place to places every time his dad would say. Because he was a naval clerk. Every time that they had to move Charles Dickens usually would had to leave school as well or let's put it this way drop out, because of his father work position where he would work.("Biography Editors"). The reason they had to move its because they would needed to work to have plenty of money for the whole family because they were really poor and didn't have enough money to spend or to buy other necessary things the would need. The other thing was that they had to drop out Charles Dickens in order for him to work and get money for the family and also for him to spend on his expenses for school. The father of Dickens was in a big trouble that's why they were really poor, and they problem was that his father was in debt. That caused him go to jail and made it worse to the family of dickens.("Biography Editors"). After they took his dad and he was already out of school he had to work as a clerk so he could of get money for the family and from there he would start writing some of his things that would been happen to him. At times he felt really lonely because of the bad thing he has been trough and the main thing was that his dad was in jail for debt and that he had to find a way to support the whole family and himself. He also would look ashamed by the adults that would take care of him go or the ones that saw him every single day at work or other places.("Biography Editors"). Charles Dickens thought that they were making fun of him because he had to work for his family and also to send some money to his dad to jail. After all this bad things that been happen to him later on all this changed his life and made him a good path to become famous and people would love him because he would start writing about past and that he had to dropout out of school to work.
Second of all "From 1849 to 1850 Dickens wrote his first work of its own kind and words, that no one ever had written before in that 19th century."("Biography Editors"). After all he had been through he decided that it would be easy and beneficial to some people to learn from his on mistakes so they wouldn't make or be at the sea situation that he had been through while he was a little kid. Also Charles Dickens thought that helping charity would be a good thing to do around his country because back then mostly all people were really poor and since he now knows what being poor is, he decided to help the people that need the most things so they can live a better life just like he did. All this helped him and then later on that's when he really became so famous. The reason why he became famous was because of his writings and also helping charity. This made his life easier and happy because he turned from being poor to rich because all of his work he did on the writings. "By raising awareness of the miserable conditions of the poor and the absurdity of the law, he became and influential spokesman and one of the great forces for good in his times."("Bloom Harold"). Later on he went back to school to finish it and he finally reached his goals by finishing school and started writing more novels for the people that would like to read them.("Charles Dickens"). Then he had the chance to travel around the world, so he decided to travel to the United States and when he got there people were really desperate to see him because they never have seen a writer that nice and so kind to poor people. When he got to there he would start given out speeches for the people and they would really love them because of all the good words he would say in those speeches. So that made him even more famous, so he would feel really love by his people and made him write more and publish them for the people. After he had done a lot of work on his novels and speeches with people he finally decide to look for a woman to be part of his life as well as his writing. "He found his first love when he was 18 years old, and she was only 13 years old than him, but he didn't care he fell really in love with her."(London, Charles Dickens Tours). His new wife/girlfriend was really older than him, but that didn't stopped him from loving that beautiful woman he found in his life. He really fell in love with her but he didn't know what was going to happen later on in his life with her. Even though he had a wife he still didn't stopped writing his novels and his wife would not like that. She wanted more time with him so they could of go out and have a fun time. They had a little family but sometimes they didn't live happy at all because they were always fighting because of Charles always writing novels. Later on Charles Dickens broke up with his wife because there were rumors that he was cheating her with his sister-in-law. (London Tours). That was not the the case, she was spreading that rumor just to break up with him but that wasn't the true statement. She didn't wanted him to write because she wanted more time to spend with him and his little family they had. "Despite his great success as novelist, Dickens did not wish to limit himself to book writing." (Britannica School). Later on when they broke up he still would write more because that was his main thing in his life and that also his goal in life that he wanted to reach while he was a kid. All his work helped him to get rich and have something new to live in because they had a poor house but after all his work he finally found and bought a new house for him and his kids, he was really happy with all of his effort he puts in his work. To this day we still read his novels in English class and they are really entertaining to us and some of them are funny but we still learn lesson from them. That was the purpose he wrote his novels because he wanted people to learn form them and not make the same mistakes he did.
Last of all Dickens really liked his own writing until near the end he was becoming moe I'll. He started writing less but remained inventive. (Charles Dickens Britannica School). After all he had been through finally the day has come to him and he could not write as much as when he was a young kid. "Charles dies from a stroke in 1870." (Pearson, John). Before he died he was still writing a novel and he left that one unfinished and never published out for the public.
In conclusion Charles Dickens childhood was difficult at times and other times it was good, which influenced him in his writing and how he used his fame.