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cherishablematerial: (Screenshot) “The saddest story is that of Plorn, a sensitive and nervous boy who couldn’t even handle a normal school situation and was then sent off alone, at sixteen, to the raw world of the Australian outback,” he writes. imagine getting sent to live in the Australian outback when you were sixteen corvidayyy: WHY WERE THEY SO CRUEL TO MY BOY PLORN cherishablematerial: (Another screenshot) As the children grew, one by one, Dickens's enthusiasm turned to ashes. Having earned his success and overcome childhood poverty while still a teenager through his own impressive energy and drive, his children’s complacency and lack of ambition disconcerted him. “I think he has less fixed purpose and energy than I could have supposed possible in my son,” writes Dickens of Charley. (This “lassitude of character” is attributed to Charley’s mother.) Of Frank: “A good steady fellow ... but not at all brilliant.” And Plorn: “he seems to have been born without a groove. It cannot be helped. He is not aspiring or imaginative in his own behalf.” I have an answer to that one too cherishablematerial: Who killed Hannibal meme format. Man labelled charles dickens’ holding gun and shooting someone. *neglects:his children* Charles dickens: And Plorn: “he seems to have been born without a groove. It cannot be helped. He is not aspiring or imaginative in his own behalf.”