SAT写作经典例子之Charles Dickens_SAT写作

SAT写作经典例子之Charles Dickens

　　The Marshalsea around 1897, after it had closed After only a few months in Marshalsea, John Dickenss paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Dickens, died and bequeathed him the sum of 450. On the expectation of this legacy, Dickens was granted release from prison. Under the Insolvent Debtors Act, Dickens arranged for payment of his creditors, and he and his family left Marshalsea, for the home of Mrs. Roylance.Although Dickens eventually attended the Wellington House Academy in North London, his mother Elizabeth Dickens did not immediately remove him from the boot-blacking factory. The incident may have done much to confirm Dickenss view that a father should rule the family, a mother find her proper sphere inside the home. I never afterwards forgot, I never shall forget, I never can forget, that my mother was warm for my being sent back. His mothers failure to request his return was no doubt a factor in his dissatisfied attitude towards women.Righteous anger stemming from his own situation and the conditions under which working-class people lived became major themes of his works, and it was this unhappy period in his youth to which he alluded in his favourite, and most autobiographical, novel, David Copperfield: I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven! The Wellington House Academy was not a good school. Much of the haphazard, desultory teaching, poor discipline punctuated by the headmasters sadistic brutality, the seedy ushers and general run-down atmosphere, are embodied in Mr. Creakles Establishment in David Copperfield.Dickens worked at the law office of Ellis and Blackmore, attorneys, of Holborn Court, Grays Inn, as a junior clerk from May 1827 to November 1828. Then, having learned Gurneys system of shorthand in his spare time, he left to become a freelance reporter. A distant relative, Thomas Charlton, was a freelance reporter at Doctors Commons, and Dickens was able to share his box there to report the legal proceedings for nearly four years. This education was to inform works such as Nicholas Nickleby, Dombey and Son, and especially Bleak Housewhose vivid portrayal of the machinations and bureaucracy of the legal system did much to enlighten the general public and served as a vehicle for dissemination of Dickenss own views regarding, particularly, the heavy burden on the poor who were forced by circumstances to go to law.In 1830, Dickens met his first love, Maria Beadnell, thought to have been the model for the character Dora in David Copperfield. Marias parents disapproved of the courtship and effectively ended the relationship by sending her to school in Paris.Journalism and early novelsIn 1832, at age 20, Dickens was energetic, full of good humour, enjoyed mimicry and popular entertainment, and lacked a clear sense of what he wanted to become, yet knowing he wanted to be famous. He was drawn to the theatre and landed an acting audition a Covent Garden, for which he prepared meticulously but which he missed because of a cold, ending his aspirations for a career on the stage. A year later he submitted his first story, A Dinner at Poplar Walk to the London periodical, Monthly Magazine. He rented rooms at Furnivals Inn becoming a political journalist, reporting on parliamentary debate and travelling across Britain to cover election campaigns for the Morning Chronicle. His journalism, in the form of sketches in periodicals, formed his first collection of piecesSketches by BozBoz being a family nickname he employed as a pseudonym for some yearspublished in 1836. He continued to contribute to and edit journals throughout his literary career.