In Oliver Twist, Dickens did not try to sugar coat the criminal world. He described this world frankly. This was clear in his <span>"to show [criminals] as they really are forever skulking uneasily through the dirtiest paths of life...would be a service to society."
Dickens believed that by showing the real picture of the criminal world as it is (realism), the society would be inspired and motivated to find effective solutions to solve this problem.</span>
The Indian Rebellion of 1857. The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a period of uprising in northern and central India against British rule in 1857–58. The rebellion was the result of decades of ethnic and cultural differences between Indian soldiers and their British officers.
Based on the information provided within the question it can be said that the children remembered more stories in which the light-complexioned characters had positive attributes and the dark-complexioned characters had negative attributes. Since many of these older stories associated positive attributes to those with light-complexions and children tend to remember the positive attributes more.
