LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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His parents died.
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His father went deep into debt.
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He ran away from home.
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All boys were on their own at age 12.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Charles father fell into much debt and couldn’t pay his bills to England. This is when they sent his father and the rest of his family off to prison. This left Charles to work on his own and make money for his entire family. He was sent to work at Warren’s Shoe Blacking Factory at the age of ten.
Detailed explanation-2: -February 7, 1812: Charles Dickens is born to John and Elizabeth Dickens. 1824: John Dickens arrested for his debts and sent to Marshalsea prison. A 12-year-old Charles Dickens is forced to work at Warren’s Blacking Factory pasting labels on shoe polish containers to provide for the family.
Detailed explanation-3: -Charles Dickens’s father, John, was sent to the Marshalsea Prison in 1824 when Dickens was 12 years old.
Detailed explanation-4: -Charles Dickens’s father, a clerk, was well paid, but his failings often brought the family trouble. In 1824 Charles was withdrawn from school and did manual factory work, and his father went to prison for debt. Those shocks deeply affected Charles. After a brief return to the classroom, his schooling ended at age 15.
Detailed explanation-5: -Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school at the age of 12 to work in a boot-blacking factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors’ prison. After three years he returned to school, before he began his literary career as a journalist.