Everyone Appreciates A Good, Rags, And Oliver Twist

Everyone appreciates a good ‘rags to riches’ story. Charles Dickens did as well, in fact it could be said that his own story was one of rags to riches. Dickens knew poverty, he also knew people, and how poverty can effect and change them. Over the course of his life he wrote some of the most famous and beloved stories, from â€Å"A Christmas Carol,† â€Å"Great Expectation†, and â€Å"Oliver Twist†, to â€Å"Nicholas Nickleby† and â€Å"Davis Copperfield.† Today Dickens is considered to be by many, one of the most well-known English novelist of the Victorian era. Most people today could say that they have at least heard of one of his works in some way or another, or at the very least have witnessed evidence of his influence that his writings have in modern stories†¦show more content†¦After three years he was returned to school, but the experience was never forgotten and became fictionalized in two of his better-known novels D avid Copperfield and Great Expectations . (BBC, np). The rest of Dickens family moved near the debtor’s prison that his father was incarcerated in, â€Å"Dickens earned six shillings a week labeling pots of â€Å"blacking,† a substance used to clean fireplaces. It was the best he could do to help support his family. (Biography, np). This left the young Dickens to live on his own and fend for himself, this experience would later inspire many of Dickens novels throughout his writing career. â€Å"Looking back on the experience, Dickens saw it as the moment he said goodbye to his youthful innocence, stating that he wondered â€Å"how [he] could be so easily cast away at such a young age.† He felt abandoned and betrayed by the adults who were supposed to take care of him. These sentiments would later become a recurring theme in his writing.† (Biography, np). The jumpstart of Dickens early writing career began when he was just fifteen years old, when he found a job working as an office boy to help with his family’s finances. â€Å"Within a year of being hired, Dickens began freelance reporting at the law courts of London. Just a few years later, he was reporting for two major London newspapers. (Biography, np). His writing career bloomed from there, as he began to write sketches to more magazines