https://padlet.com/hjenkins2/6dqsb3fqmu51 en-us 2017-04-09 13:18:11 UTC 2017-04-11 05:48:23 UTC hello@padlet.com hjenkins2 https://padlet.com/hjenkins2/6dqsb3fqmu51/wish/165550991 In his early years, him and his family constantly moved houses to keep ahead of their creditors. Dicken's father was jailed for debt and Dickens himself was removed from school and made to do excruciating work in a shoe-blackening factory. During these times he was aware, through personal experience, of the terrible lives of the poor people. The disgust and horror Dickens felt and the sympathy for the victims fed most of his writing. They also define his radicalism. Dickens spoke out from a social/cultural point of view, which many people with an education had no perspective on. 
He showed life as it was for others who were the 'under classes'. There were religious 'do-gooders' who seemed to believe being poor was somewhat related to a disease and that people somehow enjoyed being poor. 
There were others who believed people were similar to machines only and that the poor could be operated like the mechanical equipment in a factory (or even worse).]]> 2017-04-09 13:29:14 UTC https://padlet.com/hjenkins2/6dqsb3fqmu51/wish/165550991 hjenkins2 https://padlet.com/hjenkins2/6dqsb3fqmu51/wish/165810879 Charles Dickens was born of Feb. 2nd, 1812, at Port Sea, on the coast of England. He lived in a lower-middle-class family. At the age of 12 he was set to work in a shoe-blackening factory. The sociological effect of working in the factory gave Dickens a firsthand experience of poverty and made him the most influential voice of the lower class at his age. In 1836, Dickens started publishing monthly columns in The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club. This was a great success and was the start to Dickens fame. After that, Dickens became the editor of Bentley's Miscellany. He started publishing his new novel, Oliver Twist, in this magazine. In the final years of his life, Dickens health slowly got worse and worse. He never fully recovered from a railroad accident he was involved in in 1865 and yet still insisted on travelling by train. He broke down in 1869 and gave his last set of readings in London. He also started The Mystery Of Edwin Drood but died in 1870, leaving it unfinished. ]]> 2017-04-11 04:47:14 UTC https://padlet.com/hjenkins2/6dqsb3fqmu51/wish/165810879 hjenkins2 https://padlet.com/hjenkins2/6dqsb3fqmu51/wish/165813228 Dickens was a highly popular writer during the Victorian times. He was influential in reforming the Poor Laws. In Bleak House, Dickens harshly criticises the ideology that actions are right if they benefit a majority, pointing to the difference in the ideal world, and reality. Also, he points out the unjustified delay in court proceedings. His attack on the Victorian Justice system was based on his own experience of it as a young clerk man. In Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, he outlines the horrid, dirty conditions of London in deep detail. In Great Expectations, he continues his attack on the corruption of the Justice System which favours the rich and has different views on the poor. ]]> 2017-04-11 05:22:15 UTC https://padlet.com/hjenkins2/6dqsb3fqmu51/wish/165813228