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In Daniel Novak's article "If Re-Collecting Were Forgetting: Forged Bodies and Forgotten Labor in "Little Dorrit," he examines the existence of synecdoche in Charles Dickens's ''Little Dorrit.'' According to Novak, synecdoche functions in literature as "the exaggeration and isolation of a body part so that its dominance of physical size and semiotic voice the essence of the entire character." Novak uses the bases of this definition to claim that Dickens "effaces the boundary between the material world of things and the organic structures of body, by packaging all parts of the body, no matter how ostensibly central as “accessories” – loose members in the world of commodities" (21). The characters in the novel serve as parts of the whole in the society of the text. In the novel, the life of a character is used to reflect or show a relation to a segment of society. <ref name=Ref8/>