During the Victorian Era, London was over-populated and had poor living conditions, with a huge gap between the poor and the rich. It was also at a time when London became very stable and had large improvements in their industry. Charles Dickens was one of the greatest writers of the Victorian Era; he wrote "Oliver Twist" and "A Christmas Carol," to show the real social problems of London. There were lots of issues portrayed in these two novels such as poverty, crime and the victimization of children. However, the two stories explained the problems in very different ways. In the novel "Oliver Twist," Charles Dickens was trying to indicate the social problems of 19th century London during the Industrial Revolution from the perspective of the poor. Oliver Twist was living in a workhouse in poor condition. In the workhouse, Oliver Twist asked one of the workers for more food, “Sir, can I have some more?”. This statement clearly shows how miserable children’s lives were in the workhouse and how they were poorly fed. Later, he was bought by the undertaker Sowerberry for only five pounds. Sowerberry said to Bumble when he was buying Oliver “They cost more to keep than they're worth” (pg.11). This clearly shows that the children were treated like an object, not a human being. When Oliver escaped to London, he was manipulated by the mischievous adult, Fagin and was involved in street crime. This suggests how serious victimization of children was at that time and how miserable and dangerous the city was for innocent children to live by themselves. There was lots of criminal activity because of unemployment and violence towards women. In the novel, Charles Dickens tries to tell that the Victorian Era might had been the successful of times for London, but for the poor, it was a very dangerous and terrifying time. "A Christmas Carol" is a novel that tries to tell the social problems of Victorian London from the wealthy person’s view.