What's the story?!

"What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people's hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or at least get a resonance, where other people become a bigger instrument than the one you're playing. It becomes almost an obsession to touch other people. To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart. Sometimes I think songwriting is about tightening the heartstrings as much as possible without bringing on a heart attack." -Keith Richards


Why did Charles Dickens write the novel you're reading/reviewing? What in your analysis of literary techniques led you to this conclusion? (Make sure to include textual support illustrating Dickens' use of at least three techniques we've studied/discussed this year.)

Charles Dickens wrote the novel in order to share his views about society with society. The use of foil, symbolism, and characters allow him to do so. Through foils, Dickens can show the reader that people are bad in their own way, some sin differently than others but all of us sin. With the use of bugs as symbols emphasize how decayed something is. Characters all are influenced by traits that people in this society have like Pip with his idealism and Estella with her desires to break men's hearts. These characters comment on the people of today's society and will continue to comment on future societies.