"Orphans of the Mist" tells us that happiness will always be particularly violent after withstanding the test

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Life is like a rushing river, sometimes flowing through vast wilderness and sometimes through steep canyons. Standing where the river originates, it's hard to know where it's going to go. Passers-by who get up early and greedily in the dark, face the surging or calm river, sometimes full of pride, sometimes sad.

Some people with keen eyes and sharp minds, facing the vast river of life, used the pen in their hands to record those moments of inspiration, so that later people could use their manuscripts to understand the tortuous road traveled by their predecessors. Charles ▪ Dickens, a novelist, used the medium of fiction to give people a taste of the colorful social picture of 19th-century Britain.

Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, into a family of naval clerks. At the age of 10, Dickens's family was forced to move to debtors' prison. At the age of 11, Dickens took on heavy housework. Later, Dickens worked as a shoe workshop apprentice, a scribe in a scribal office, and a newspaper reporter. Dickens, who had only studied for a few years, relied on tenacious perseverance to study hard and constantly explore, and eventually became a well-known writer.

In the second half of 1836, Dickens's first novel, The Tale of Pickwick, was a great success, and Pickwick's fame suddenly became greater than that of the British Prime Minister, and after tea and dinner, people were enthusiastically discussing the bizarre story of Mr. Pickwick.

Publisher Richard ▪ Bentrio asked the prestigious Botz (Dickens's pen name at the time) to write 2 more novels and hired him as editor-in-chief of Bentley Magazine. One of them, which had been serialized in the magazine for two years from February 1837 and published in October 1838, was The Adventures of Oliver ▪ Retreat, or Orphans of the Mist.

Oliver, the protagonist of the book, is really a ill-fated, poor and unfortunate child. As soon as he was born, Oliver was abandoned and lost the love and protection of his parents. After living in an orphanage for 9 years, Oliver was sent to the coffin shop as an apprentice. Unable to bear the hardships of life, Oliver escaped from his master and came to Paris.

In Paris, Oliver became acquainted with pickpockets and was forced to start his career as a pickpocket, then to live a life of knife-knife licking blood and fearing every day with vicious murderers. After countless heartaches and sorrows, Oliver finally found out his origins and achieved happiness with the help of mr. Brownlow, Mrs. Merry and other kind people.

Oliver's tragic experience of being ostracized and bullied made people cry after reading it. An orphan who is orphaned and makes a living alone does not require a luxurious life of great wealth and wealth. All he wanted was a place where he could settle down, some food to eat. But just such a small wish is more difficult to realize than to ascend to heaven.

Although he is at the bottom of society, often fighting against sinister and cunning evil forces and dealing with hypocrites with good looks, Oliver has never let himself go, but has adhered to his inner goodness, honesty and sense of justice, and tried to help other people in need while doing his best to protect himself. Dickens highlights oliver's character, which also shows that he believes that kindness is rooted in people's hearts, and even poor and lonely children will be kind to others.

In fact, Dickens's "Orphans of the Mist" is a clear window to understand the living conditions of ordinary people in Britain in the 19th century. In 1834, the British Parliament passed a new Law on Poverty Relief, abolishing the monetary or monetary relief for the poor and recognizing only one form of relief, that is, taking the poor into the art institute.

Readers of "Orphans of the Mist" can know that thousands of such training centers are the prisons of thousands of poor people. In order to avoid becoming a starving corpse on the streets, the unemployed and desperate poor people had no choice but to enter this "hell on earth".

Dickens' "Orphans of the Mist" is not limited to exposing the essence of the false and empty "charity" of the poor people's art institute. Boldly and profoundly, he attacked the brutal exploitation of child labour by the capitalists, denounced The laws of England for the poor children who wanted a small loaf of bread, and were concerned about the wandering, helpless children.

And in these weak children, the author also placed his full hopes: hardships and hardships, Yuru Yucheng. After experiencing the baptism of storms and rain, the orphans who run barefoot in the fog will usher in the wind and the sunny day, harvesting the sweetness and happiness at their fingertips. Even ordinary people who are ordinary will usher in true happiness after withstanding the blows of the wind and waves.