Charles Dickens Report (Eng.).ppt

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1、Charles John Huffam Dickens 1812 1870The Background and Experiences of a Great Author,from a Harsh Childhood to a Wonderful Adulthood,of becoming a Famous WriterExitThe Start Of A Great AuthornCharles Dickens was born on February 7,1812,in Portsmouth,Hampshire,England.nDickens parents were John and

2、Elizabeth Dickens who had 8 children and Charles was the second to oldest child out of all of them.nAfter he was born,his family moved to Chatham.nDickens described his years living there“the happiest time of his childhood.”nHis parents were always free spirited and spending money on parties and bal

3、ls which caused them problems later on.nDickens father worked for the navy as a payroll office clerk,but the job didnt pay enough for all of the festivities.Young Charles DickensThe Start Of A Great AuthorCharles Dickens HousenBecause they had so many children and parties and balls,financial problem

4、s were always a concern for the Dickens family.nBecause of their financial problems,they later had to move to a smaller house when Charles was just 4 months old.nThe Dickens family was considered middle-class,but for only a short time because they hit financial problems which,in 1824,caused them to

5、be imprisoned for debt.nTo pay off the debt,Charles father pulled him out of school to work in a shoe-die factory.nCharles considered this experience to be,“the most terrible of his life.”nBut,most of his harsh experiences influenced him to write his best novels.=nCharles parents also saved as much

6、money as they could for oneone child to start an education at a university.nUnfortunately,Charles was not that child.His sister Fanny was.Charles Grade SchoolThe Start Of A Great AuthorThe Beginning Of A Hard LifenWhen Charles turned 12 years old he hit the hardest point of his life and his dreams o

7、f becoming a gentleman were looking dim.nDickens father was sent to jail for failing to pay off a debt.nThis loss put the family and Charles into sad times for a while.nHis debt and loss of a family member is also expressed in an ironic way though the book.Pip suddenly falls into debt after spending

8、 too much(like Charles parents did)and loses a family member,Mrs.Joe.Etching of Charles Dickens father,JohnA Better Looking FuturenOnly a short year later for us,but a sad and depressing,slow year for Dickens,Charles father was released from jail and times were getting better for Dickens.nCharles wa

9、s also released from his,so he calls it,“horrible”job at the shoe-die factory.nCharles life course is very close to Pips life course.In the book:nAt first,life was normal.nPip dreamt of becoming a gentleman.(Pip becomes a gentleman Charles,on the other hand,does not.)nPip falls into depression.nPip

10、gets money from benefactor and becomes happy like Charles gets his father back.nCharles father was released from jail because the debt was finally paid off from an inheritance of money given to the family.Charles DickensThe Start of His Love of WritingnIn 1833,Dickens started writing short stories a

11、nd essays for periodicals.nLater,he started providing writings for comics(how he got his skill in adding a little humor in his stories like Great Expectations)which,in 1836,were published as the Pickwick Papers.nWith this,Dickens became,within a month,internationally popular.nAfter a while,Dickens r

12、esigned from making comics and writing newspaper reports to become an editor of a monthly magazine called Bentleys Miscellany.nIronically,Dickens probably used this magazine name for Bentley Drummle in Great Expectations.Dickens Continues To WorknHis success as a novelist continued,Nicholas Nickleby

13、(183839),The Old Curiosity Shop and,finally,Barnaby Rudge:A Tale of the Riots of Eighty as part of the Master Humphreys Clock series(184041)all published in monthly instalments before being made into books.，尼古拉斯尼克贝老古玩店。1841年巴纳比拉奇Dickens Continues To Workn n In the early 1840s Dickens showed an inter

14、est in Unitarian Christianity,although he never strayed from his attachment to popular lay Anglicanism.47 Soon after his return to England,Dickens began work on the first of his Christmas stories,A Christmas Carol,written in 1843,which was followed by The Chimes in 1844 and The Cricket on the Hearth

15、 in 1845.A Christmas Carol was most popular and,tapping in to an old tradition,did much promote a renewed enthusiasm for the joys of Christmas in Britain and America.n。Dickens Horrible DeathnIn 1869,Dickens health started to decline.nOn June 9,1870,Charles Dickens died from a mild stroke.轻度中风nHe died after a hard days work of writing his new book Edwin Drood which,unfortunately,was never finished.nCharles Dickens was buried in Westminster Abbey.A graveyard in England where very respected people go.Dickens Signature