Early in the novel, we find our protagonist working for the measly salary of six pence a week at the age of ten. This is an excellent example of the author using his own personal accounts as a laborer in a bottling factory in London. Taken directly from the novel, Dickens conveys the atrocious working conditions as follows: "I became at ten years old, a little labouring hind in the service of Murdstone and Grinby's warehouse...literally overrun with rats, decaying floor and staircase, the dirt and rottenness of the place.". Paralleling his early life in London, Dickens also portrays the institutions of the debtors prison that he resided in for the period of one whole year. Destitute and unemployed, the writers' father suffered with his son in the prison leaving an indelible mark on the future author and serving as a source for the character, Mr. Micawber. The titular character remained the favorite of Dickens throughout his career and proved to be an excellent vehicle to express the struggles faced by so many Londoners during the
Early in the novel, we find our protagonist working for the measly salary of six pence a week at the age of ten. This is an excellent example of the author using his own personal accounts as a laborer in a bottling factory in London. Taken directly from the novel, Dickens conveys the atrocious working conditions as follows: "I became at ten years old, a little labouring hind in the service of Murdstone and Grinby's warehouse...literally overrun with rats, decaying floor and staircase, the dirt and rottenness of the place.". Paralleling his early life in London, Dickens also portrays the institutions of the debtors prison that he resided in for the period of one whole year. Destitute and unemployed, the writers' father suffered with his son in the prison leaving an indelible mark on the future author and serving as a source for the character, Mr. Micawber. The titular character remained the favorite of Dickens throughout his career and proved to be an excellent vehicle to express the struggles faced by so many Londoners during the