... 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. Charles's father lived beyond his means, and floundered financially. Dickens" mother was a lady of energy and culture, and from her the Dickens received the rudiments of Latin ... Company, pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish; he'd left school at age 10 to help support the family. Now he was on his own, while the rest of the family roomed in a jail cell with the elder Dick...

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... become. Even though he is a man of great intelligence, he worked day after day for eighteen years on one shoe maker's bench. He has been forced to give up on life and wait in his cell, "on hundred and five north tower" (Dickens p 37), for his certain death. The redemption and salvation ... really shows how lucky Darnay is that he met the Manettes. For it was only Dr. Manette's imprisonment that saves Darnay. Darnay's freedom is short-lived for the same night that he is released he is picked up and arrested again. At the trial, this time, he is convicted. The outlook on ... the lives of ...

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