Hermeneutics includes semiotics to signify transformation. Pre-suppositions or previously successful or meditative reflective writing, with metacognition as a goal, refers to higher order thinking which involves active control over the cognitive processes. Writers plan, evaluate, monitor, embed, inform and train. In particular, the emphasis of writing online and in print formulates a writers’ planning as a semiotic or significant stage of the writing process. Pre-writing in an informal journal is metacognitive thinking in action. Metastudy such as a free writing journal prepare us to write. The e-portfolio suggests that we can collect ideas and reflect upon the process of the creation. The three attributes of this hermeneutical arc including text, explanation of the text, and understanding in reflections. 

        Charles Dickens teaches peace through his literature. He is an agent of change who adapts biblical allusions to teach morality. Hermeneutics of Dickens works is a burgeoning field. His use of the Bible recaptures the essence of Christianity in his book The Life of Our Lord (Larson). This research seeks to apply critical hermeneutics which takes nothing for granted. In fact, it is the taken for granted nature of understanding that is the object of study and, in particular, where that knowledge comes from. Hermeneutics stops at the point of saying that knowledge and understanding is historically and socially bound. Critical hermeneutics continues where traditional hermeneutics leaves off, by embarking on an examination of those social and historical conditions which make understanding possible. 

This researcher refers to The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens as a way to investigate. The narrative gently tells the reader about the life of Christ and ends with the ultimate sadness of persecution of the Christians. Yet, the republished work is illustrated with Victorian themed pictures to capture the cultural landscape of the Victorian Era. The book presents the life of Jesus Christ rewritten by Dickens for his children. The generous tone that Dickens applies in references to moral code shows radical compassion.                                                          

         Why do writers write? “Social justice, Thematic tool and Paradigm in the construction of the novels of Dickens and DiEdwardo” was presented at the Hotel Bethlehem in April 2010 as a part of the Pennsylvania College English Association Spring Conference called “English Studies and Social Justice.”The answer is that characters, setting, mood, voice, and themes dynamically bring us to a state of relaxation and vision to understand truths. Literature is inspirational. My intention is to provide readers with tools to research the use of social justice as a reason to write and a methodology of applying the social justice paradigm for writing. Conclusively, this presentation seeks to develop empathy.