... firmness, expresses a threat to beat David again. Although Dickens does not relate his father to Mr. Murdstone, he does relate one character to his beloved father, Mr. Micawber. Charles Dickens uses the character Mr. Micawber to relate to the reader the circumstances that Dickens himself experienced. Mr. Micawber was a man who loved to live a plentiful life, but his finances could not afford him to ... building enormous jails and debtors" prisons towards the end of the novel. "I could not help thinking, as we approached the gate, what an uproar would have been made in the country, if an...

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• Grade Level: High School