1.3 All the three
authors were victims of trauma during their younger days. Charles Dickens was forced to give
up his life of abundance because his father was jailed for violating the law. Jeanne Walls grew up with the trauma of having to eat garbage in order to survive. Rudyard Kipling had to go blind and event had repeated bouts of mind –induced suicidal attempts because he had been beaten by people in the Calvinist foster home in England.
1.4 All the three
authors did not give up despite their child traumas in their maturity. Charles Dickens looked for a job to pay for his daily needs. He later became famous for his stories like the David Copperfield where he wrote an autobiography of how harsh and inhuman the working conditions during that time period. Charles Dickens immortalized most of his traumas into books that sell because they are works of art. Works of art are easily sold out because they depict, or in simple layman‘s language,
mirror what is happening to other people in the neighborhood, in the community, in the country or in the
world. This similarity of traumatic events could be similar from one period to another. Jeanne Walls later in her maturity became a world –famous wall street reporter and an mnsc.com journalist. Rudyard Kipling was able to bounce back from his six years hell in the Calvinist foster home because he was extricated in time by his father from the trauma perpetrators – theCalvnists.
2. Contrast upbringing on the maturity of the three world famous authors.
2.1 All the three world famous authors came from different backgrounds. Their backgrounds are:
JEANNE WALLS Jeannette Walls grew up one of the poorest children of the United States. She had to spend a major part of her growing up years literally digging the waste disposed by people in her neighborhood. She wrote in her world famous autobiography,
the Glass Castle, that she had to endure her sibling years as an unhappy and even tragic vagabond. She had kept this dark yesteryears secret only to her closest friends for so many years.
CHARLES DICKENS Charles Dickens is one of the greatest English writers. He is well known for his award –winning storytelling as well as his famous and sometimes even infamous characters created in his masterpieces. Charles Dickens had to find work at twelve years of age in order to feed not only himself but also his seven other brothers and mother. He worked in a boot blacking factory for ten hours a day. His job was to past the shoe labels. He is so horrified at the inhuman working conditions there. This factory setting was his his inspiration to write his famous masterpiece
David Copperfield.
RUDYARD KIPLING Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India in 1865. He was schooled in England. His childhood days were spend being aided by his aya or housemaid in India. Rudyard Kipling traveled to England at the age of five to study there. While there, he suffered a lot for six years under the abuses of his landlady in the lodging house. He had to endure the beatings and general victimization there. Thus, he had to be treated for insomnia. This is characterized by a persons’ difficulty to sleep on time at bedtime. This life of sufferings that Rudyard Kipling encountered formed the plot for many of his masterpieces including the ‘Baa baa Black Sheep” world famous masterpiece. His father finally extricated him from the sufferings while lodging in the Calvinistic foster home and transferred him to a private school when he reach the age of twelve.
Conclusively, the similar and different ways affects the upbringing affects the maturity of the authors. This effect is that they all were able to cope with their traumas to become the three world famous literary masters of their time, our time and the future generations’ time.