ENGL 2011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Pickpocketing, Smallpox, Brain Fever
22 Mar 2017
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Didn"t write for children; wrote for ages 12+ Publishers wouldn"t let him publish it for adults. He didn"t change the content for the age group when he published it. Setting: exotic as opposed to ordinance; testing ground. Testing ground: the place in which the hero comes into con ict with the villain and shows his heroism. Inspired by oliver twist: not set in victorian era. Realistically reproduced: it is possible to map out smith"s locations. Gar eld doesn"t make up the names: the pub and the streets are all real. The streets are still ctionalized: it"s not a historical novel; the ctitious parts create the. The city is seen as a jungle: it is a place where people struggle to survive. Round building in the background of illustrations: a cathedral. Hero: smith; his name and the title are the same (he"s a hero) Villain: the men in brown, the person who hired them.
