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Title: The Life of Charles Dickens
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The Life of Charles Dickens
Dickens was born in London, England on
February 7, 1812.
He lived in poverty and
suffered greatly. When he was 12, his father, a
gambler who liked to live beyond his means, was
jailed for debt.
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Charles had to go to work. How
is this similar/different from today? What are
current child labor laws? Charles worked long
hours in a shoe polish factory. He worked 40-60
hours per week putting labels on bottles of shoe
polish.
He was paid poorly for this.
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This experience was so influential on Dickens
that his literary work reflects how it effected
him.
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This experience was also enough to make
Charles take the side of the underdog (the person
not expected to win, for example, the poor). Many
of his characters are children who suffer from
poverty. Some famous Dickens works are
Oliver Twist (orphan) A Christmas Carol
(Scrooge) A Tale o