During Charles Dickens' childhood, his family was constantly in financial difficulty. Dickens, at the age of 12, was sent to work in a squalid factory, a nightmare he would never forget, “no words can express the secret agony of my soul”. As the family fell deeper and deeper into debt, this hit Dickens particularly hard. His family difficulties led him to write books related to poverty, so that he could express his experiences as a child. “Visitors had to squeeze through a maze of narrow, narrow, muddy streets,” this shows the poverty in an area in his Oliver Twist novel. He raised public awareness of how badly the poor were treated and tried to demonstrate through his novels that this treatment was unacceptable. The opening of chapter 50 of Oliver Twist, shows many examples of poverty, such as “windows guarded by rusty iron cars that time and dirt have almost corroded, every imaginable sign of desolation and abandonment”. This is a powerful quote as it almost leaves the reader with a sense of guilt and appreciation for everything they have. This shows that everything is falling apart in the unemployed part of the area. Dickens has a clear understanding and wisdom of poverty and can relate very well to Oliver Twist as they both experienced it. This creates a realistic and believable effect on the reader. In Dickens' time, many poor people were forced to work in workhouses while others were drawn into crime to survive. Those who suffered the most from poverty were the innocent children facing starvation. Children born to unmarried women were not valued by society; unmarried women were not given much help and were called “fallen mothers”, just like the situation we see in Oliver Twist. Oliver Twist is... in the center of the card... it's touching and tragic, "he hit his head on a stone and smashed his brain", this was unexpected for the reader and must have surprised him as the dog himself didn't he has harmed no one and he is innocent.Here the effect on the reader must have left him surprised because he was not expecting another shock.Dickens did a great job of creating tension and fear in chapters 47 and 50 of Oliver Twist, as he has used effective language to make his characters interesting to the reader. He had used his own experience and wisdom about poverty effective to describe the unemployed and neglected area based on, in chapter 50; this helped create an image of a poor area in our heads, as if we could see it right before our eyes.