Specifically focusing on“Tom-All-Alone’s” in chapter sixteen, Dickens switches from the delicate yet understanding Esther narrative to his own disembodied voice in the form of the omniscient narrative. Now Dickens previously explores the lives and homes of the upper class elite, the middle class, and the desperate poor; none of these can even compare in the sentiment that surrounds “Tom-All-Alone's”, its condition being even worse than the deadly brickmakers home. The graphic descriptions of poor Jo’s only home is definitely Dickens most stirring imagery, “It is a black dilapidated street, avoided by all decent people...a swarm of misery...Twice lately there has been a crash and a cloud of dust...each time a house has fallen”(Dickens 232-3). The home is not a home, it’s not even a house. The miserable slum turns into the description of a garbage dump as Dicken equates the inhabitants as maggots who breed and spread their evil through vice and disease. The place is so uninhabitable that the houses collapse onto themselves constantly since they lack foundation, physically and morally. Jo lives, or “Jo has not yet died”, he has no family and therefore no foundation and certainly
Specifically focusing on“Tom-All-Alone’s” in chapter sixteen, Dickens switches from the delicate yet understanding Esther narrative to his own disembodied voice in the form of the omniscient narrative. Now Dickens previously explores the lives and homes of the upper class elite, the middle class, and the desperate poor; none of these can even compare in the sentiment that surrounds “Tom-All-Alone's”, its condition being even worse than the deadly brickmakers home. The graphic descriptions of poor Jo’s only home is definitely Dickens most stirring imagery, “It is a black dilapidated street, avoided by all decent people...a swarm of misery...Twice lately there has been a crash and a cloud of dust...each time a house has fallen”(Dickens 232-3). The home is not a home, it’s not even a house. The miserable slum turns into the description of a garbage dump as Dicken equates the inhabitants as maggots who breed and spread their evil through vice and disease. The place is so uninhabitable that the houses collapse onto themselves constantly since they lack foundation, physically and morally. Jo lives, or “Jo has not yet died”, he has no family and therefore no foundation and certainly