response of people in times of desperation is to survive at all costs and make the best of the situation. If we look not too far back in our nation’s history we will see desperate times such as those who were hit hardest by the era of the depression and also those who were displaced from their homes into Internment camps following World War II and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In comparing and contrasting two books‚ Monica Sone’s "Nisei Daughter" and Studs Terkel’s "Hard Times" we are also able to
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There’s another lesson. And it starts with this guy. That Studs Terkel. How many of you know Studs Terkel? Can I see a show of hands? Not too many of you. Oldsters. The old TEDxters know Studs Terkel. (Laughter) Studs Terkel was probably the greatest living interviewer on the planet‚ as far as I’m concerned‚ but‚ certainly‚ in America when he was living‚ he died in 2008. I was fortunate to interview him once he was deaf as a doornail I did like shout into the microphone for him to hear me. He was
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Chuan Phan Mrs. Pokalo Brit Literature May 1‚ 2013 Hard Times Hard Times is the tenth novel‚ which wrote by Dickens. The novel described the English society and highlighting of the social and economic pressures during 1850s. It is appraise about injustice and lack of concern for others in England during the revolution of industrial. Industrial brought so many good things for people in the Coketown. Many factories built‚ people start to get some jobs. However‚ the process of industrialism
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Hard Times It is obvious that Charles Dickens is trying to express his negative feelings towards the industrial revolution by describing the town the way he does. He uses a large amount of figures of speeches and metaphors to indirectly describe the depressing look of Coketown and the people that inhabit it. The name of the town itself says a lot about it. “Coketown” can also be portrayed as a town dominated by slums and criminals. “It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys‚ out of which interminable
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------------------------------------------------- Key Facts full title: Hard Times for These Times author: Charles Dickens type of work: Novel genre: Victorian novel; realist novel; satire; dystopia language: English time and place written: 1854‚ London date of first publication: Published in serial instalments in Dickens’s magazine Household Words between April 1 and August 12‚ 1854 publisher: Charles Dickens narrator: The anonymous narrator serves as a moral authority
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Alice Rino Karri Harris ENG403B 10 March 2014 Hard Times Essay The novel Hard Times‚ by Charles Dickens was written in 1854 based on the idea that logic and fact helped advance society more than fancy and imagination did. Dickens was concerned with the gloomy lives and social problems of mid-nineteenth-century England’s working class and Hard Times was his way of expressing his thoughts. He addresses these problems through three divided sections of the novel where logic‚ reason‚ fancy and
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.Hard Times In the novel Hard Times‚ by Charles Dickens‚ we can immediately see the problems that occurred in England around the times period of the mid 18oo’s. Dickens shows us how the class system works and what the economy was then and what it would shape out to be. This novel is split into three books‚ the "Sowing"‚ "Reaping"‚ and "Garnering". In the first book‚ we can see that it is aptly named because we begin to learn about who the characters are and what they are about. The characters
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Synopsis The novel follows a classical tripartite structure‚ and the titles of each book are related to Galatians 6:7‚ "For whatsoever a man soweth‚ that shall he also reap." Book I is entitled "Sowing"‚ Book II is entitled "Reaping"‚ and the third is "Garnering." [edit]Book I: Sowing Mr. Gradgrind‚ whose voice is "dictatorial"‚ opens the novel by stating "Now‚ what I want is facts" at his school in Coketown. He is a man of "facts and calculations." He interrogates one of his pupils‚ Sissy‚ whose
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he uses a lot of descriptions and similes to show the implications in which the society is inflicting. For example‚ the steam engine is constantly going up and down is "like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness‚" (1057). He also uses metaphors like "it had a black canal‚" and "interminable serpents of smoke" (1057). He is portraying a point that the government in this town is not caring enough about there community so therefore he feels he needs to get the message across about
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The opening act of Hard Times by Charles Dickens shows a classroom of students being taught by Mr. Gradgrind. Mr. Gradgrind believes that only facts are important in life and strips the children of the right to have imagination. The story opens describing Mr Gradgrind as a man of fact‚ who is not interested in anything frivolous or with imagination. He instructs the children that facts are the only thing that matters in life. He demonstrates this when he calls on girl number twenty. Upon finding
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