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). ... When he gets there, he watches her sleep and notes that adults " look lousy when they"re asleep and they have their mouths way open, but kids don't. ...

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