Charles Dickens
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Both Charles Dickens, in his novel Hard Times, and Abdullah Hussein, in his novel +migrT Journeys, remind us of something that most of us already know but would like to forget, which is the fact that during hard times the family is as likely to be a place of anguish as it is to be a place of refuge. When people find themselves struggling to make their way in the world - and this may be especially true of men who feel the obligation to support their families - they often take out their anger at the world at large on those whom they love and should wish to protect the most. The two authors explore this dynamic in different contexts.Hussein, who previously wrote only in his native Urdu, writes in this book about his own arrival from India to live and work illegally in England along with a number of other poor Indians. The protagonist, Amir, along with the other men, is attempting to find himself in this new land at the same time as they are all attempting to understand what it means to be men, and this simultaneous quests for two identities at once puts significant pressure on them. They camp out in their crowded ap
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