Critical Analysis Of Charles Dickens 'The Buddha Of Suburbia'

Critical analysis The first passage, extracted from author Charles Dickens’ book Oliver Twist, establishes the meaning of the morning rush to work in the year 1837; Dickens creates this meaning through his specific sentence structure and his continuous use of imagery within the extract. The second passage, extracted from The Buddha of Suburbia, written by Hanif Kureishi, establishes a modern description of the class division created by the city of London; Kureishi creates this meaning with the use of characterization and figurative language. Both Dickens and Kureishi, are able to create a theme of society and class that is accurate with the time period in which each individual passage is written. Dickens extract contains a repetitive writing structure when he is describing the various people making their way toward the city for work in the early hours of the morning. The continuous use of the punctuation semicolon indicates a sense of a never ending line of individuals going to work that morning that Oliver is walking through the street. Dickens writes “then, came straggling groups of labourers going to their work; then, men and women with fish-baskets on their heads; donkey-carts laden with vegetables; chaise-carts filled with live-stock or whole

Both themes are an accurate demonstration of the class differences and display that would have taken place during the time in which the passages were written for. Dickens is able to establish the meaning of the morning rush to work in the year 1837; Dickens creates this meaning through his specific repetitive sentence structure and his continuous use of imagery within the extract. Furthermore, Kureishi is able to establish a modern description of the class division created by the city of London; Kureishi creates this meaning with the use of town characterization and figurative