The answer to your question would be the last answer, starting with "Darkness, greed, and corruption" Charles Dickens creates this sense of darkness by the words he uses to describe the scene, such as "foul, cesspools, bad repute".
Ok.. Very good information.
I would like to ask questions like how do you feel?
Would you rather be normal?
Do you like being different than normal humans?
Do you want to be seen as a creature/monster or as just another human?
In my life for the first time [and,] the image made me believe [of] my mother that I could change [were] the way things *were*.
remove and & of because it makes no sense in the context of the sentence and move were to the end of the sentence.