Charles Dickens

GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens

      The book tells the story of Pip, a boy whose life isn´t very lucky. The story takes place in England, firstly in a village where Pip, who´s orphan and poor, lives with his sister and his brother-in-law, and then in London, the city where he moves when he gets older to be a knight.

       Pip´s life revolves around the lack of being an important person but at the same time the author sinks him in the ignorance or shows us the influence of love, money and power in the society.

       All in all, the book is very sad and bitter, from the beginnig to the end. However, it´s worthwhile to read it and notice the psychological evolution of his mind.  

DAVID COPPERFIELD

DAVID COPPERFIELD

The story is told almost entirely from the point of view of a first-person narrator, the same David Copperfield, and was the first Dickens novel to do so.

The story is about David Copperfield’s life from childhood to adulthood. David was born in England around 1820. His father died before birth, and nearly seven years later, her mother marries Mr. Murdstone. David does not like her stepfather and feel the same way Mr. Murdstone’s sister, Juana, who soon starts to live in the same house. Mr. Murdstone criticizes David for falling behind in their studies. In one of these altercations, David bites him and then sent away to a boarding school, Salem House, a ruthless director, Mr. Creakle. Here he makes friends with James Steerforth and Tommy Traddles who, in true Dickensian style, disappears and reappears later

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

It is the first novel in English that has a child protagonist and is also notable for its treatment of world of criminals and their sordid lives.

Oliver Twist is one of the earliest social novels in the history of literature. He Talks about the crimes of the era, like the child labor or the use of children to make crimes.

Dickens mocks the hypocrisy of that era with sarcasm and black humor.

The synopsis is a fatherless child who spends a hard life as a child laborer in a cotton mill. But throughout his history, Oliver spends many adventures and dangers, even police problems.

I recommend this short book.

 

Christmas carol (Carlos)

Ebenzer Scrooge is a old man who is very stingy,ha have a lot of money but he never give nothing to anyone, he never celebrate Christmas all he care about is making money.

One night on Christmas eve, he is visited by a ghost. The ghost told Scrooge that he has been being a very bad person all of his life, he also told Scrooge that three more ghost will visit Scrooge, for give he the last chance of redemption.

That story was written in 1843 by Charles Dickens, the story try to explain us the sense of be generous and be a good person