Can you check my English please ? (2)

Hello, I am French and I have some English homework. Can you check my English please ?
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The characters end events are presented with a clearer and less abstract evocation of the narrator memories and recollections thanks to physical description of his mother and the house servant. This servant has a tree made figure : “with no shape at all” and “apple”. The red and black colors evoke satan or hell so we have here a characterization of a gothic style women.

Genre : It is an autobiographical novel with a fancy narrative and a figurative language but it quickly turns on a philosophical essay on the third and fourth paragraphs with social observations.

Narrative technique : David Copperfield use many realistic details and figurative descriptions and the present tense which impact the fact of verisimilitude, realism, lively and closeness with the reader. He wants to bridge the time gap. This careful and talented observer is reliable : direct speech used in this extract address readers in a straightforward way, he tells us his mother's and servant's qualities and he proves that his memories are all real, he uses humble remarks such as “I believe” ( Furthermore, we can notice that he is introducing a doubt at the very beginning of each paragraph) …

Characterization : For his characterization, Dickens uses his humor, his wit by writing comparisons, imageries and exaggerations. Despite their physical differences, both cared for him and he cared for both of them : it is a mutual affection. In noticing his father's absence, we can think that they were like his two mothers.
What enhances this impression of a sensitive relation ship ? He plays with them, remembers with exactness Pergotty's finger and still have in his mind physical details.

To conclude on this two chapters, the purpose of this two opening chapters is to introduce the narrator as a reliable narrator who will take the reader throughout the narrative of his adventures and his growing into a man. David Copperfield is a coming-of-age novel. Dickens reveals his talents as a novelist, an essay writer and a social observer of his contemporaries. Characterization does extended use of wit, imageries and exaggerations to take the reader into a world of fancy that will divert him from the harsh reality of the Victorian times.