He never forgot that experience and he use it in Oliver Twist. He knew what it is to live under bad conditions and work hard. So that is why we can see the real picture of that times. We can see how the poor people lived and died and how the children were brought up to be criminals. It was not their fault, they were so educated by other criminal (like Nancy was by Sikes). When we read this book we can feel the atmohphere of the poorer parts of London, we can see dark old houses – ruins and the people which must steal something ar else they would die of hunger. About the author: Charles Dickens is one of the greatest novelist in the English literature. He wrote about the real world. No about middle classes, he wrote about the poor people. He was against social injustice. He was born in 1812. They were 8 children. His father went to prison for debts and so Charles had to work hard to survive. His teachers thought that he was clever but he had to leave the school and went to work. When he was 16 he started to work for newspapers. He visited law courts. He wrote short stories for magazines. Theses were funny descriptions of people who he met. His characters in all his works are one-sided. He published his Christmas stories. In this book hr wrote about his family under the Christmas tree, and about the atmosphere during the Christmas. He also wrote David Copperfield where he used his memories from his childhood.