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Good people always have good rewards - Dickens "Nicholas Nickbey"

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By recounting the experience of the protagonist, Nicholas Nickbe, the author of "Nicholas Nickbe" reveals that the schools set up by the so-called poor at that time were actually only places for profit, and the students starved all day long, and flogging became the most important means of education.

After the death of his father, the young Nicholas brought his mother and sister Kate to London to join his uncle Ralph to seek a job to maintain his life, but Ralph was greedy and greedy, and he was very cold to them, but he had another plan.

Good people always have good rewards - Dickens "Nicholas Nickbey"

In order to keep Nicholas apart and away from London, he introduced Squires to Dosis Boyce Church in Yorkshire as a teacher, so that Kate could be at his mercy.

However, Nicholas witnessed the Squires family being mean, exploiting and bullying boarding children, and doing everything, and he couldn't bear it, so he took the lead in the rebellion in the academy, and finally escaped with a particularly lonely sick boy, Smarck, and made another living.

When he returned to London, he worked as a tutor at the home of his neighbour, Ken Weggs, with the help of Newman Noggs, Ralph's clerk.

Nicholas did not want to drag Noggs too much, so he went to legislator Gregosbury through an employment agency to apply as a secretary, and was ridiculed by the legislator for the first time, but was not hired. He only had to go out with the dependent Smake to seek opportunities.

They stumbled upon the enthusiastic head of the Crams Troupe, and as soon as they talked, the two participated in the performance together, and they were successful.

After Kate and Nicholas break up, Ralph is introduced to Mrs. Mantarini's hat shop as a clerk, but soon the hat shop changes hands and Kate loses her job.

Reading the newspaper advertisements and enlisting Mrs. Julia Wittitley as a nanny, Ralph had bad intentions and used Kate as a cash cow to recommend her to Sir Morbury Hawke, which caused some unpleasant disputes, but fortunately these plots failed.

Just when Kate can't stand the entanglement of these villains, Nicholas, after receiving a letter from Newman, quickly leaves the troupe with Smark and returns to her side, and announces that he and Ralph have severed all ties.

Soon Nicholas inadvertently met a well-meaning Elder Charles Chiriber at an employment agency, and was able to enter the Chiriber Brothers Firm.

As the times went on, the Nicholbe family's plight improved dramatically. In his dealings with Miss Madeleine Bray, Nicholas is also closely plotted by Ralph and another moneylender, Arthur Greid.

The plot failed and Squires was imprisoned. After Smarck's death, Ralph was told that he was his outcast. Mentally, he was hit by this blow, desperate, and ended up hanging on the beam to commit suicide.

As for Sir Hawke, Greid and other villains, they also got the bad end they deserved. At this point, nicholas and Madeleine, Kate and Chiriber's nephew Frank, two lovers finally became a family; the pit man's Dorsey Boyes Church collapsed forever.

All this reflects the truth that Dickens has always advocated that good has good rewards, and evil has evil rewards, not unreported, the time has not come, and when the time comes, everything will be repaid.

After the publication of Nicholas Nickbe, its realistic depictions and sharp accusations attracted attacks from some authorities and conservative critics. However, the general reader is the most impartial judge.

Like Dickens's other novels, this indignant work was well received by readers at the time, and still has wide resonance and dazzling brilliance years later.

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