Charle's Dickens Book Report
Charles Dickens was born in England on February 7, 1812 near the south coast.
His family moved to London when he was ten years old and quickly went into debt. To
help support himself, Charles went to work at a blacking warehouse when he was twelve.
His father was soon imprisoned for debt and shortly thereafter the rest of the family split
apart. Charles continued to work at the blacking warehouse even after his father inherited
some money and got out of prison. When he was thirteen, Dickens went back to school
for two years. He later learned shorthand and became a freelance court reporter. He
started out as a journalist at the age of twenty and later wrote his first novel, The
Pickwick Papers. He went on to write many other novels, including Tale of Two Cities in
1859.
Tale Of Two Cities, the novel By Charles Dickens doesn’t focus on the dilemma
of the poor in Victorian England as with many of Dickens’ novels, but rather on an
exploration of France prior to and in the wake of the French Revolution. In the fictitious
novel, Tale of Two cities, the author, Charles Dickens lays out a brilliant plot. In the year
of 1775, England and France are undergoing a period of social disruption. The forces that
are leading to revolution in France are colliding with a circle of people in England,
causing their destinies to be irretrievably intertwined. There are travels by the characters
between the countries, but most of the action takes place in Paris, France. The wine shop
in Paris is the hot spot for the French revolutionists, mostly because the wine shop owner,
Ernest Defarge, and his wife, Madame Defarge, are key leaders and officials of the
revolution. Action in...
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