charles dickens' dad...

Charles Dickens' father was a clerk for a naval payroll office. Unfortunately, he was unable to stay out of debt which led to his imprisonment. Due to the Charles' father's bad luck, Charles was forced to work in a blackening factory. Charles educated himself and worked his way up the proverbial ladder and began publishing serial works in newspapers, much to the surprise of his publishers. Much of Dickens' work was inspired by the difficult years of his life and the experiences that he had working and surviving. After much success, Mr. Dickens went on to write novels which were incredibly famous with his contemporaries and still are today.

My dad has been an engineer for decades. After retiring from his own engineering firm, he created his own business, but later got bored and decided to go back to work for an architecture firm and currently enjoys the challenges of his work there. Due to my parents' good parenting and ability to provide me with everything that I could ever need, I have ended up in England, studying for the year. Currently, my dad is on an airplane, flying over to visit me. I am thrilled. We are going to Wales for a brief tour of Snowdonia and the northern coast. Although I may not go onto write great novels, by one o'clock in the afternoon tomorrow I will have seen all of my immediate family members, two cousins, and several friends over the past five and a half months that I have spent in Europe. Despite the lack of good writing on my part, I think I like my life a little better than Charles Dickens' life. Especially because I am done reading Hard Times.