A Frightful Childhood In Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

While researching the life of Charles Dickens, whether it be how he lived as a child or

as an adult, Charles Dickens had written A Christmas Carol for a reason. Dickens has

had a dreadful childhood, where he had to overcome many good things and bad things in

life which many children of his age did not have to endure. Even at an old age, Dickens

struggled with many illnesses, mental and physical, but still managed to be the wonderful

writer he is considered as today. The past of Charles Dickens will show that he was a

phenomenal writer, but he had a past to prove it.

Charles Dickens's life was dreadful from the start. At a young age, Dickens's father

was imprisoned for bad debt (BBC). Charles Dickens's family excluded

Whenever his doctor gave Dickens advice, he would never listen to him, which

completely went against the point of having a medic with him. Dickens did not have a

normal life, but with having that he was able to have another reason or story to inspire

him as a writer and put his life story in a book.

“Dickens's own story was like a rages-to-riches fairy tale.”(Henderson and

Sharpe.,1462). As a child Charles Dickens had a dreadful life, as said before, but he went

from being a nobody to being a somebody. Just as he did in his book, A Christmas

Carol. Instead of getting rich after being poor, he turns from being a grumpy old man,

who hates children and Christmas to a man who is cheerful and loves everything and has

the highest spirits about everything. “I wish to be left alone.’ said Scrooge. ‘Since you

ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don’t make merry myself at

Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry.”(Dickens.,13). What a horrible

person Scrooge was at the beginning of the story. “A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good

fellow, than I have given you for many a year! I’ll raise your salary, and endeavour