In Paris, he took a job as a plongeur (a dishwasher) and learned more about the suffering of the poor in another European capital. Dressed in shoddy clothes, Eric would sit on street corners, converse with tramps, and spend time in the various "spikes" (men's shelters provided by factories) around London. Fascinated by the lives of the poor and by the fact that a nation as powerful as England could fail to address such shocking poverty, Eric lived among the lower classes, although he could have stayed in his parents' comfortable home. To find material for his writing and learn about the lives of the lower classes, Eric began "tramping" through London and Paris.
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