In this essay I will try to compare one story with Charles Dickens life and figure out why Charles Dickens writes stories like he does. .
I will try to find the equalities the story David Copperfield contains with Charles Dickens life, and compare them.
Charles was born on 7th of February 1812 near Portsmouth, and the family was categorized in the middleclass. .
Dickens father, John, was a kind and likable man, but he was incompetent with money and piled up debts throughout his life.
Charles life started out pretty good. He lived in Landport, Portsmouth until in 1817, then they moved to Chatham. Charles experienced his best childhood memories in Chatham. The family moved to Camden Town in 1822, this was the start for a very troubled time for Charles. In 1824 his father was imprisoned for dept, and Charles had to quit school and start working with labelling bottles at Warren's Blacking warehouse, making 6 shillings a week to help paying the dept his father had created.
This time of his life was very rough. Later on Charles becomes a law clerk, then a court reporter, and finally a successful novelist.
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David Copperfield: .
Summary:.
Copperfield enjoys his early childhood with his mother and their kindly servant, Pegotty. But when his mother marries the cruel Mr. Murdstone, he is sent away to Salem House, a strict school in London where the boys where beaten by Mr. Creackle, especially David. Here David become friends with James Steerforth. .
Shortly after his mother gives birth to a son by Mr. Murdstone, however, David's mother dies, and David is pulled out of the school and forced to go to work at Murdstone's wine warehouse. He lives with the nice Micawber family, whom he grows to love, but when Micawber is sent to debtor's prison, David runs away from his work and goes to live with his aunt, Miss Betsy Trotwood. Miss Trotwood adopts David and sends him to a school in Canterbury, where he thrives.
David lives in Canterbury with a lawyer named Mr.