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🆙️ Charles Dickens and 'Hard Times'

Charles Dickens was one of the most famous and successful writers in England during the 19th Century. He became very wealthy and once travelled to the USA to give talks.

His books are still popular today and many have been made into films - Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol are perhaps the best known examples.

But Dickens' life was not always an easy one, especially when he was a small boy.

His parents had problems with money, and so in 1824 they sent young Charles, only just turned 12 years old, to work in a factory - he had to stick labels onto bottles full of 'blacking', a polish for cleaning shoes.

He was paid six shillings a week - that's about £12.50 a week in today's money. He hated the place.

A short time later, his father was sent to prison because he owed money - this happened to many people at that time. Then the family house was sold, and Charles' mother, brothers and sisters went to live in the prison too. Charles never forgot this period of his life.

As an adult, he wanted people to know about the terrible conditions that children often had to work in. And when he started writing, his stories were full of people who suffered the things that he had gone through himself. In fact, one of his novels is called Hard Times.

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Charles Dickens adalah salah satu penulis paling terkenal dan sukses di Inggris selama abad ke-19. Dia menjadi sangat kaya dan pernah melakukan perjalanan ke Amerika Serikat untuk berbicara/berpidato.

Buku-bukunya masih populer sampai sekarang dan banyak yang telah dibuat menjadi film - Great Expectations, Oliver Twist dan A Christmas Carol mungkin adalah contoh yang paling terkenal.

Tapi kehidupan Dickens tidak selalu mudah, terutama ketika dia masih kecil.

Orang tuanya memiliki masalah dengan uang, dan pada tahun 1824 mereka mengirim Charles kecil, yang baru berusia 12 tahun, untuk bekerja di sebuah pabrik - dia harus menempelkan label pada botol yang penuh dengan 'menghitam', semir untuk membersihkan sepatu.

Dia dibayar enam shilling sepekan - itu sekitar £12,50 dalam uang hari ini. Dia membenci tempat itu.

Tidak lama kemudian, ayahnya dijebloskan ke penjara karena berutang uang - ini terjadi pada banyak orang saat itu. Kemudian rumah keluarga itu dijual, dan ibu Charles, saudara-saudaranya pergi untuk tinggal di penjara juga. Charles tidak pernah melupakan periode hidupnya ini.

Sebagai orang dewasa, dia ingin orang-orang tahu tentang kondisi buruk yang sering dialami anak-anak. Dan ketika dia mulai menulis, ceritanya penuh dengan orang-orang yang menderita hal-hal yang dia alami sendiri. Bahkan, salah satu novelnya berjudul Hard Times.

-21 januari 2022-

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