... Scrooge, heated by the remark, and speaking unconsciously like his former, not his latter, self. "He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.", "The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune." Once again, Scrooge contemplates ... an old one. It was made when we were both poor, and content to be so, until, in good season, we could improve our wordly fortune by our patient industry. You are changed. When it was made, you were another man.", "You may - the memory of what is past half ... takes him to t...

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... and A Tale of Two Cities (1859). In the sixties Dickens published the weekly-serialised novel Great Expectations (1860-61) and his last finished novel, Our Mutual Friend (1864-65). In April 1870 he began The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which was left unfinished. Charles Dickens led an extremly busy life: He ... the local school. John Dickens found it difficult to provide for his growing family on his small pay. In 1822 the family moved to Camden Town in London. John Dickens' debts had become so severe that all the household goods were sold. Still unable to satisfy his creditors, John Dickens...

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... continued his schooling until 1821 when his father lost his job and most of his income. The family then moved to a house in Camden Town, London. They happily lived there for three years until his father found himself so far into debt that he was arrested. He was imprisoned ... Eventually, Charles" family found a home closer to the prison, until May of the 1824, when his father was released. They moved back to Camden Town where Charles, fifteen years old then, attended school in London. Three years later, in 1827, he decided to quit school to become the office boy of ... the same year, ...

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... She admires him greatly although this strong admiration is not always completely clear to the reader. Atticus is a lawyer in the small South American town of Maycombe, although the beginning of the novel comments on links to Cornwall, England. QUOTESSSSSSS Jeremy Finch, AKA Jem her brother who is four ... is extremely protective of his young sister. QUOTE Finally, Calpurnia, a black cook. Scouts first description of her is a less than flattering one. " Our battles were epic and one sided I had felt her tyrannical presence as long as I could remember." It is revealed to the reader that sh...

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... declining to unite the trade union. Finally, even his profession estranges him as soon as he is fired from his position at the plant and obliged to rearrange to a new town to get a job. In the end he is reduced to a criminal for a crime he did not make in a the community that has at all times hated him. As what he ... this need Tom experiences and expresses it to Louisa. "...he [Tom] has not been fortunate in his training. Bred at a disadvantage towards the society in which he has a part to play, he rushes these extremes for himself from opposite extremes that have long been forced upon...

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... workers for refusing to join the trade union. Finally even his work alienates him when his is fired from his position at the factory and forced to relocate to another town to find work. In the end he is reduced to a criminal for a crime he did not commit in a society that has always detested him. As what he produces becomes more ... this need Tom experiences and expresses it to Louisa. "...he [Tom] has not been fortunate in his training. Bred at a disadvantage towards the society in which he has a part to play, he rushes these extremes for himself from opposite extremes that have long b...

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