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How Did Charles Dickens Affect Our Society
WHO’S CHARLES DICKENS?
Charles Dickens was a well-known English writer back in the 19th century. He wrote some of the finest and vivid classical books still read by people today in our society. As the fame of being the one of the most anticipated authors in the world, the story of his life didn’t come close.

Charles Dickens was born in 1812, February 7. He was given birth to John Dickens, a clerk working in the navy pay office, and Elizabeth Nee Barrow in Portsmouth, England. In 1822 to 1827, his parents were having a debt and were put imprison and took up residence there. This left Charles with not a stable education schooling and care from someone else at the age of nine. He started to work in the late 1823, where it was at a blacking factory but soon left it as he was finishing off his final two years of schooling. As soon as 1831 came, he became a reporter in the
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Most of the things we have now in our modern society has always been influenced in the past and it still continues in this pathway. Many individuals contributed in many different aspects in ways that shaped our world. Examples can be William Shakespeare was known for his famous english poets and creating most english, Martin luther king, who fought for civil rights and the creator of the car, Karl Benz. Charles dickens also contributed. He was famously known for changing our culture of christmas and the way we use ‘Comedy’.

Charles dickens had a large amount of impact in the way we now use the term and holiday Christmas. In one of his most famous books, A Christmas carol, he describe how he interrupt Christmas in his sense like bring a Christmas tree when celebrating and the sense of warmth with families celebrating with each other. From that book onwards, Many observers often referred charles as the first to create the modern culture of this holiday “the man who invented Christmas”. Without this book, Christmas wouldn’t be like how we would celebrated

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