Charles Dickens was shaped by his experiences as a child, including having to work in a factory after his father was imprisoned for debt. As a writer, he used vivid descriptive language to create relatable characters, even at a young age like the 7-year-old protagonist Pip in Great Expectations. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had massively destructive impacts, but firebombing raids on Japanese cities conducted earlier by General Curtis LeMay under the XXI Bomber Command also inflicted heavy casualties and infrastructure damage. These raids contributed to the success of the Pacific campaign through changes in tactics and operations that increased bombing accuracy and mission success rates with fewer losses.