1. Charles Dickens … Samantha Pinter Professor OwensEnglish 110215 July 2010

2. Dickens’ Choice of Characters Within Dickens writings heroism isdrawn from among the"middle class", often youngchildren and the poor, thefew of wealth and rank arepictured harsh,unsympathetic, with muchsarcasm.

3. Child Laborer 1800’s Dickens himself worked in a factory as a young child, using this experiences in many of his child characters.

4. Well Known Child Characters David Copperfield Tiny Tim Oliver Twist

6. Adopted by a gang of criminals to become a pick pocket thief.

7. Oliver runs away because he does not wish to seal.

9. Father works for very little as a clerk for a rich banker.

10. Crippled helpless child, his family has little money and can’t pay for medication.

12. A naive but loving child who looses his mother.

13. Is abused as a child

15. Dickens Well Known Villains…Wealth &Authority

16. Aristocrats Dickens depicted wealthy / authority figures as heartless selfish Cruel Villains

17. Full Deck of Wealth!

19. Scrooge regarding the poor that would rather die then work in the workhouses , “If they'd rather die, then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.”

20. Mr. BumbleOliver Twist Selfish Churchman at workhouse where Oliver works. Tells the children… “Cry your hardest now, it opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes and softens down the temper. So cry away. ”

22. Adopts a young girl in order to mold her to break men’s heart. Pip eventually is the victim of her intent.

25. Dickens felt a true attachment to his characters. His writings always involved the average man which many can relate to.

26. "Dickens wrote about greed and debts -- over and over," Timberg says. "He himself was deeply scarred by his father's fecklessness. And then he became a very rich man. And boy, are we in the middle of that now. He wrote about rags to riches, but also about rags to riches to rags."

27. Works Cited Walsh, John. “Dickens of a Time.” The Independent 22, Dec. 2008: 2. Print Yardley, Jonathan. “The Little People.” Washington Post 31, Jan. 2006: C01 Print. Timberg, Scott. "Boom and Gloom, Again; Dickens' stories of greed and poverty speak to the 21stcentury's economic woes." Los Angeles Times 11, Apr. 2009: D.1 Print Powers, Kathrine A. "Easy Listening for Hard Times." The Washington Post 17, Aug. 2008: T11 Print Broadberry, Stephen. “A Unified Approach to the International Comparison of Living Standards.” Journal of Economic History 70.2 (2010): 400-427. Print