Well well well, i'm sure that everybody had heard about or even read Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, but i won't talk about this big classical, i just want to share with you some of my thoughts about Dickens' tales.
I've decided to write something about Dickens' tales because in last September, i found an old Dickens book, the kind of beautiful book with hard covers and elegant illustrations, you know (always a pleasure to hold these beautiful books!!). I read "A Christmas Carol" when i was younger, about 12 years old, and it left me a strong impression. I was really happy to find the book last September.
There're three tales in this book titled "Christmas Carols" which are: "A Christmas Carol", "Spirits of the Bells" and "the Cricket on the Hearth".
Maybe it's strange to tell you that i love this kind of tales which have happy ending, i might appear silly to find that these tales bring me comfort and scare me at the same time. But Charles Dickens describes so well fantastic scenes that i imagine i'm a part of the story and i'm in somekind the observer of these poor people in their misery and stay powerless in front of their despair.
If the main character of the first tale is a rich old man (Scrooge), in the two other tales, main characters all belong to poor working class, those who work hard everyday and earn just enough to survive. And the three tales depict life conditions of this poor class in winter, at Christmas day or in new year.
After a hard year, these people finish with no money, no opulent feasts, no beautiful clothes but always with cheerfulness, good humor and a lot of love for each other. Dickens shows, with skill, the rich people's world, where there's no place for happiness, no place for love, no place for simplicity. They're just concernned by money, by how to make more money, and they can go up to steel the meager diner of a poor trotter (spirits of the bells) while they tell him what to do to stay in the right way just before new year.
And those who claim to be friends of the poor, they're even more reprehensible and despicable because under this "honorable" status, there're cruelty and unhealthy pride. For them, poor people are just like animals, they all need someone of the upper class to guide them and to tell them what to do, otherwise, these poor morrons will fall into crime, alcohol and other "bad" habits!
At the end, readers only find love and cheerfulness in poor homes where people live from hand to mouth without phylosophy or metaphysical problems because it's them who possess the real meaning of life and its good phylosophy.
A pure happy moment with Dickens. We cry, we are outraged, we shout at human nature and at the end, we're happy because where there is love, there is Life and Happiness.
