... creativity and ambition. That was soon taken away from him when hard times struck his family. They were forced to move to the suburbs of London, which were places of poverty. His parents could no longer provide education for him. John Dickens was placed in jail for debt reasons, and Elizabeth forced Charles to become a thief. Dickens began to use these ... the perfect way to describe the enormity of his writings during the nineteenth century. People needed the works of Charles Dickens to enlighten their lives because of all of the poverty and oppressions that were going on during his ti...

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