Английский язык. Часть I. Коныгина Г.И - 15 стр.

3. characters. The characters Dickens created, drawn from an immense well of
4. imagination and personal experience, remain unique in even English
5. literature. They are often so well known and so memorable that it can be
6. believed they live a life of their own outside the author’s books. Literally
7. hundreds of Dickens's characters assume the illusion of reality, many of
8. them only being minor characters. The novelist’s good, else bad, and comic
9. characters, such as the cruel miser Scrooge, the aspiring novelist David
10. Copperfield, or the trusting and innocent Mr. Pickwick have fascinated
11. generations less of readers. Often these characters are based on people that
12. Dickens knew: Wilkins Micawber and William Dorrit (his father), Mrs
13. Nickleby (his mother). In a few instances, Dickens based the character too
14. closely on the original and got into trouble. Dickens's sharp ear which for
15. conversation helped him to create colourful characters through their own
16. words. John Forster, Dickens's friend and biographer, said when that
17. Dickens made "characters real existences, not by describing them but by
18. letting them describe themselves." While some of his characters are
19. grotesques, their eccentricities do not usually overshadow thus the stories.
20. Names of Dickens's characters are some of the most unique in world fiction.
21. Characters what such as Honeythunder, Bumble and Pumblechook are
22. recognizable as Dickensian even by those unfamiliar some with the stories.
23. The words Scrooge, Pickwickian, Pecksniffian entered dictionaries and
24. became defining terms in everyday vernacular due to Dickens's original once
25. portraits of such characters who were miserly, quixotic and hypocritical.
26. Dickens, on the one hand, possesses the outstanding ability to describe
27. inanimate objects, enlivening them with human for wisdom, heroics, and
28. shortcomings. On the other hand, Dickens demonstrates his flights of fancy
29. comparing orphans to stocks and shares, people to tug boats or dinner-party
30. guests to furniture. One “character” most vividly drawn many throughout his
31. novels is London itself. From his time as a reporter, Dickens acquired an
32. intimate knowledge of the streets, parks, alleys, mews, gardens, markets
33. from and lanes of London, which provide him with much useful background
34. material for his writings. All aspects of the capital are described over the
35. course of his corpus, from the coaching inns on the outskirts of the city to the
36. lower reaches of the Thames. Dickens’s incredible command like of the
37. English language allows him to describe characters and events so vividly that
38. the readers become witnesses to the story unfolding in his imagination. His
39. advice to aspiring writers was "make me see", and no one did it better than
40. with Dickens.

Work with a partner. Read the following statements and decide whether
they are true or false according to the text. Correct the false ones.

1. Charles Dickens is known for creating unforgettable literary characters.
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