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<h3>Charles Dickens</h3>
<pre><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Charles Dickens, a nineteenth century<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>writer, tells a story about a</pre><pre>young boy in England and the adventures that happen to him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In reading</pre><pre>the book the reader becomes entwined in the plot by Dickens^Òs expert</pre><pre>writing and style.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Using different scenes and scenarios, Dickens</pre><pre>displays his characters' personality in a way the few other writers</pre><pre>could.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In the book Oliver Twist, Dickens uses different events that</pre><pre>happen around Oliver instead letting Oliver decide his own fate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In the</pre><pre>book, other characters determine Oliver^Òs path in life, and Oliver is</pre><pre>the subject around which the story revolves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The accidents in the story</pre><pre>give depth to Oliver and add depth to the story that increases elements</pre><pre>of mystery and suspense.</pre><pre> In the beginning of the book, Mrs. Thingummy is helping Oliver^Òs mother</pre><pre>give birth to the young child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Mrs. Thingummy takes charge of Oliver^Òs</pre><pre>life just as he is born by stealing Oliver^Òs only link with his father,</pre><pre>his mother^Òs husband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Stealing the mother^Òs ring also commits Oliver to</pre><pre>a life of lower social status because of his supposed illegitimacy.</pre><pre>Oliver moves to the dark forces in the book when he starts with</pre><pre>absolutely nothing from his very birth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The sides of good and evil,</pre><pre>light and dark respectively, are also devices used by Dickens to display</pre><pre>different sides of the social coin in England.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Accidents tie in closely</pre><pre>with this device because it is by accident that Oliver transferres to</pre><pre>one side or another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>After spending time in the dark forces, Oliver</pre><pre>then switches back to the light side by a run in with Mr. Brownlow, a</pre><pre>compassionate citizen who pities Oliver and later takes care of him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Of</pre><pre>all the people that Oliver could run into Mr. Brownlow happens to be one</pre><pre>of those people who Oliver desperately needed and who could and would</pre><pre>provide for Oliver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In another example of an accident, and a shift back</pre><pre>into the dark forces, Oliver happens to make a wrong turn and end up in</pre><pre>the hands of a band of crooks who earlier had taken possession of</pre><pre>Oliver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>By chance the appropriate person was in the alley that Oliver,</pre><pre>by chance, walked into when he was passing through the city of London.</pre><pre>In the last transition of chance, Oliver is caught breaking and entering</pre><pre>into a house that the band of crooks intends to pillage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This house</pre><pre>contains another compassionate and tender character that becomes like a</pre><pre>mother to Oliver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Luckily, and by chance, the shot that one of the</pre><pre>house keepers fired when he found Oliver breaking in did not mortally</pre><pre>wound Oliver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Throughout all of these changeovers and accidents Oliver</pre><pre>never takes charge of his life and becomes a player in the book, he</pre><pre>always stays the subject of the happenings around him.</pre><pre> Because Dickens wrote in installments this method served to heighten</pre><pre>the sense of suspense in the novel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Knowing that Oliver could change</pre><pre>his circumstances would not make the story more interesting. Letting</pre><pre>Oliver direct himself would let his readers guess the most probable</pre><pre>outcome of the situation based on Oliver^Òs attitude and his previous</pre><pre>decisions. By letting accidents direct the course of the story, dickens</pre><pre>opens many avenues that the story could take that would not be</pre><pre>previously open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Anything could happen to Oliver and the readers were</pre><pre>always wondering what would happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The winding story of Oliver Twist</pre><pre>is one of Dickens classics, and a masterpiece of accidents.</pre><pre><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></pre></div>
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