Read the sections about debtor’s prisons in Little Dorrit, David Copperfield, and the Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. Each refers to a different debtor’s prison in London in the nineteenth century many years after the United States took a stance against them. Realize Dickens’ father had been imprisoned in one of them during the son’s childhood. Write a paragraph contrasting your feelings about punishment of debtors with those of nineteenth century England. Identify why your feelings coincide with or differ from those of that period.