AB_Charles Dickens

Place of birth: He was born in Portsmouth

Education: He found employment as an office boy at a lawyer’s 

Beginning of literary career: He had so much success in Parlamentary debates and began to work as a reporter for a newspaper

Works: In 1833 it had been published his first story called “Boz”.Then “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”. He started a career as a novelist. His most important novel is Oliver Twist.

ANSWERS

1. During the Victorian Age many children belonging to poor and working class, were obligated to work in factories, mines or as chimneysweeps. 
2. Dickens described poor children’ lifestyles as they were corrupted by adults.
3. Oliver Twist represented the mistreatment of children in the workhouses.
4. He was brought up in a workhouse.
5. Oliver is kidnapped by the gang and forced to commit burglary.
6. Oliver was adopted by a middle class family.
7. Oliver found out to belong to a rich and noble family in the end of the novel.
8. The story is set in London and it describes the poor and middle class 
9. Victorian workhouses’ conditions were appalling; the residents had to respect hard regulations, they had to work so many hours in a day and they had no enough food and cloths

READ

1. The scene takes place in a workhouse, in London where Oliver Twist was obligated to live. The scene told takes place during a lunch mean.
2. The boy has finished his meal but he was still angry and he asked if he could have some more food.
3. Some boys decided to play straws and they will decide who will ask to the master for more food and Oliver was extracted. He stood up and asked if he could have some more but the master felt outraged in front of his request and decided to hung the boy.
4. The day after the director pasted a billposting out of the gate, in order to offered to any man or woman, for five pounds, a possible apprentice for trade or calling.