I don't just go around taking pictures of TGI Friday's. The little blue spot in the upper right hand corner is a plaque. The blue plaques around London show various spots in London's literary history. That particular TGI Friday's is on the former location of Warren's Blacking Factory, where Charles Dickens had to go to work at the age of 12. His father was thrown into debtor's prison, and Charles had to work twelve-to-sixteen hour days to help get his family out of jail. The students did a great deal of research into Dickens's personal life and how it motivated him to become such a vocal social critic. Dickens's broken childhood created a soft spot for children in his heart; all of his novels have sympathetic child characters (Oliver Twist, Pip, David Copperfield (probably the most autobiographical), Tiny Tim, Little Lucie Manette, Little Nell etc.).
As tasty as TGI Friday's mozzarella sticks are, I took the picture to connect to the work that the students have been doing.
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