Dust Heaps in Our Mutual Friend Essay -- Charles Dickens Victorian Era

Dust HeapsDust develops. The famed Dust Heaps in Our Mutual Friend are simply large mountains of well, dust. One cannot amply judge the purpose of Dickens incorporation of dust heaps in his novel without background information on them. The question being what is a dust heap? Apparently the answer heaps of dust is not good enough.In the Victorian era dust heaps were fill with useful garbage. Dust heaps were made up of many assorted things. One such ingredient also the main ingredient was finely cinders and ashes. These items, along with some soil, were exchange to brick makers for making bricks, and to farmers for manure especially for clover. The nigh item tended to be pieces of coal which were usually there because a handmaids carelessness. The coal was either resold or simply used. Another voice of the dust heaps was made from breeze. According to Dust or Ugliness Redeemed, breeze was named after the cinders which were left after the elevate has blown the finer cinders through an upright sieve. These ciders were also sold to brick makers, but for burning the b...