David Copperfield speaks the voice of its author, Charles Dickens. ... The author himself experienced some of these and depicted them in his story of a boy named David Copperfield. ... David Copperfield entered into the world of education. ... As adults, David and Traddles relieve Mr. ... David Copperfield was not only a semi-autobiography, but also a bucket of ice water to the people living in and with these predicaments in their social system. ...

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To identify how gender impacted Eyre and Copperfield, gender roles must be identified. ... David Copperfield and Jane Eyre had very similar childhoods, Jane was orphaned David lost his father, Jane lived in an abusive home, David lived in an abusive home, Jane was sent off to a boarding school and so was David. ... All the things that happened to David Copperfield and Jane Eyre were gender specific. ... David Copperfield and Jane Eyre lives were built entirely on the fact that both were broke; if they would have been born into families of wealth the outcome of their live would have cha...

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In this essay I will explore and compare both Charles Dickens and Roddy Doyle's way of presenting a child's view of the world in their novels, David Copperfield' and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. ... Charles Dickens wrote his famous novel David Copperfield' in 1870during the reign of Queen Victoria (the Victorian era.) ... In Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha' Roddy Doyle does not use a straight-forward method of narrating his story like Charles Dickens does in David Copperfield, it doesn't have an obvious beginning, middle and end. ... He doesn't start the novel with Padd...

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Jessie Wilcox Smith was fond of classic boys and girl's stories and painted illustrations for such natable characters as David Copperfield, and Alice in Wonderland, she also fully illustrated the books Little Women (1915) and Heidi (1922). ...

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Review of The Catcher in the Rye This novel takes place mostly in New York City in the 1950's although it begins at a private academy called Pencey Prep, just outside of the city. The main character and narrator, Holden Caulfield, tells the story of the "madman" stuff that happened to him aroun...

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He seemed to have found, like Pip, that this "great expectations" had turned to ashes. 2.As Dickens had written about orphans in "Oliver Twist" and "David Copperfield", he obviously wrote about Pip smoothly and freely at description. ...

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Witchcraft has always been an interesting topic to me, for many reasons. The subject is surrounded in mystery, superstition, secrecy, and most interesting of all, real magic! I used to associate witchcraft with ugly old hags wearing pointed hats and rags while riding a broom stick through the air on...

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Charles Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens's works are characterized by attacks on social evils, injustice, and hypocrisy. Charles was born at Landport, in Portsea, England, February 7, 1812, He was the second of eight children. Dickens's father was employed as a minor civil servant in the Naval Pay Office, a job that required the family to move a number of times. Dickens" family spent many of Charles's early years fairly pleasantly in Chatham but made their final move to a miserable part of London. ...

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When we first meet Holden, he says, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you"ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth" (Salinger 3). ...

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• Grade Level: High School