Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was greatly influenced by his upbringing. He knew what it was like to live in poverty and to constantly live with debt. Dickens grew up in England in the early 1800's. This time period was very important to his understanding of life and people because it was a time of revolution in countries all over the world. Dickens was also greatly influenced be his own family. His father went to prison because of a large debt. His family moved closer to the prison and left Dickens behind. He was forced to make his own living and start his own life. Charles made money doing small jobs like shoe shining and decided he would be a writer at the young age of fifteen. Dickens later became a very successful writer. Because of the hardships he faced in his own life, he was able to make the characters in his novel very easy to relate to for the people of the time period. Dicken's realistic writing caused him to become not only famous in Europe, but even in the United States. Today Charles Dickens is thought to be one of the greatest writers along with William Shakespeare. He started a new age of writing about real people and persuaded his readers to reach their dreams and stay young at heart.