Charles Dickens Report (Eng.).ppt

,Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,Charles John,Huffam,Dickens,1812 1870,The Background and Experiences of a Great Author,from a Harsh Childhood to a Wonderful Adulthood,of becoming a Famous Writer,Exit,The Start Of A Great Author,Charles Dickens was born on February 7,1812,in Portsmouth,Hampshire,England.,Dickens parents were John and Elizabeth Dickens who had 8 children and Charles was the second to oldest child out of all of them.,After he was born,his family moved to Chatham.,Dickens described his years living there“,the happiest time of his childhood,.”,His parents were always free spirited and spending money on parties and balls which caused them problems later on.,Dickens father worked for the navy as a payroll office clerk,but the job didnt pay enough for all of the festivities.,Young Charles Dickens,The Start Of A Great Author,Charles Dickens House,Because they had so many children and parties and balls,financial problems were always a concern for the Dickens family.,Because of their financial problems,they later had to move to a smaller house when Charles was just 4 months old.,The Dickens family was considered middle-class,but for only a short time because they hit financial problems which,in 1824,caused them to be imprisoned for debt.,To pay off the debt,Charles father pulled him out of school to work in a shoe-die factory,.,Charles considered this experience to be,“the most terrible of his life,.”,But,most of his harsh experiences influenced him to write his best novels,.,=,Charles parents also saved as much money as they could for,one,child to,start an education at a university.,Unfortunately,Charles was not that child,.His sister Fanny was.,Charles Grade School,The Start Of A Great Author,The Beginning Of A Hard Life,When Charles turned 12 years old he hit the hardest point of his life and his dreams of becoming a gentleman were looking dim.,Dickens father was sent to jail for failing to pay off a debt.,This loss put the family and Charles into sad times for a while.,His debt and loss of a family member is also expressed in an ironic way though the book.Pip suddenly falls into debt after spending too much(like Charles parents did)and loses a family member,Mrs.Joe.,Etching of Charles Dickens father,John,A Better Looking Future,Only 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.,Charles was also released from his,so he calls it,“horrible”job at the shoe-die factory.,Charles life course is very close to Pips life course.In the book:,At first,life was normal.,Pip dreamt of becoming a gentleman.,(Pip becomes a gentleman Charles,on the other hand,does not.),Pip falls into depression.,Pip gets money from benefactor and becomes happy like Charles gets his father back.,Charles father was released from jail because the debt was finally paid off from an inheritance of money given to the family.,Charles Dickens,The Start of His Love of Writing,In 1833,Dickens started writing short stories and essays for periodicals.,Later,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.,With this,Dickens became,within a month,internationally popular,.,After a while,Dickens resigned from making comics and writing newspaper reports to become an editor of a monthly magazine called Bentleys Miscellany.,Ironically,Dickens probably used this magazine name for Bentley,Drummle,in Great Expectations.,Dickens Continues To Work,His success as a novelist continued,Nicholas,Nickleby,(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 Work,In the early 1840s Dickens showed an interest 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,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.,。,Dickens Horrible Death,In 1869,Dickens health started to decline.,On June 9,1870,Charles Dickens died from a,mild stroke,.,轻度中风,He died after a hard days work of writing his new book Edwin,Drood,which,unfortunately,was never finished.,Charles Dickens was buried in Westminster Abbey.A graveyard in England where very respected people go.,Dickens Signature,The End,Thank u!,Ariel,