Hard Times Mr Bounderby Analysis

As far as selecting picture books for use in a classroom collection, Tuesday by David Wiesner would be an excellent addition. The book itself is a wordless book, with limited text and depends on sequenced illustrations to present the story and carry the narrative. Despite the lack of text, colorful illustrations throughout create interest in the story and make the reading experience an enjoyable one. Looking at evaluation criteria for selecting picture books in a classroom, Tuesday adheres to many of the standards. Tuesday is about a topic that children would find interesting; it avoids all forms of stereotyping in both text and illustration. The figures of frogs flying about on lilypads, is well done, but not so complex that it is not appropriate

The Industrial Revolution generated the perception that applying solely logic to everyday activities could maximize productivity and efficiency. Charles Dickens explores the dangers of neglecting emotions and imagination in his novel Hard Times. Dickens separates Hard Times into three books: Sowing, Reaping and Garnering in order to reveal the negative consequences of industrialization and forsaking imagination for facts through the events, settings, and characters in the novel.

Throughout Dickens journey through life, the poor laws of Great Britain were closely intertwined. The first major impact that his childhood experiences had on him was his exposure to the factory system. The Industrial Revolution created large urban areas with a central factory that employed most of the area’s people. The factory was full of lower-class people in unsanitary conditions. In the days of Dickens’ factory experience the old poor laws were in effect. This helped Dickens’ situation greatly. His father lived in a fairly nice and sanitary prison, and was given time to find the money he owed. The old poor law system of giving aid to the poor helped to save the Dickens family. When Dickens grew up and was a parliamentary reporter, the new poor laws were about to be passed. Dickens realized that the new poor laws would bring doom to many families. The new poor laws did not help the poor but worsened their condition in order to drive them to work.

Furthermore, like many members of the bourgeoisie, Bounderby tries to better himself at the expense of the proletarians. While Bounderby was a member of the lower class in his youth, he has completely turned his back on them. He treats the proletarians with contempt, and he believes that all the proletarians desire “to be fed on turtle soup and venison, with a gold spoon.” Dickens is creating an irony here. Bounderby believes that all the proletarians want to get rich without working, yet the proletarians are actually doing all the excruciating work in the society. However, the wealth is not going to the proletarians but to Bounderby himself.

Mrs. Bates had worked in the textile mills for a long time, but the town had stirred up rumors that a “boarder” was living with them, and that’s how she made more money. Society also looked down upon her because they said she frequently got drunk and took men for

Isolation Within everyday life, there are many distinct, powerful emotions that citizens of society can embody. The concept of isolation, and its dangers have been around since human life first began. Isolation can be a helpful concept at times in moderation; however there are many cases in which it can progress beyond a threshold can cause harm and emotional agony. John Steinbeck does a brilliant job illustrating effects of loneliness within three characters who suffered greatly. In the novel, Of Mice and Men, Crooks, Curley’s Wife, and Candy all suffer great isolation at the hands of racial discrimination, sexism, and loneliness.

All Alone On a Ranch Full of People Of Mice and Men is a realistic fiction novel written by John Steinbeck. Two young men, Lennie and George arrive at a job in Soledad after running from Lennie's mistakes in a small town called Weed. George takes care of Lennie who needs extra help because of his mental disabilities, he has the personality of a five year old. At the ranch they are working at, George and Lennie meet many different people including Candy, Curley's Wife, and Crooks. They start to discover how lonely these people feel and how lucky they are to have each other.

Both the stories of Russesabaginga and Orwell are set in a time of violence and corrupt authority which delivers a sustaining impact to the changing world views around them. Their tales are very moving and evoke a thought process in the reader which questions the morals and standards of current society. Although both stimulate the readers mind, the way the writer’s ideas come across are quite different from each other. An Ordinary Man written by Russeabagina is presented through examples of logos and ethos due to the logical appeals of his ideas on family and perseverance. He employs ethos as well through his deliberate efforts to link the humanity within a genocide to the moral philosophy of the audience. Contrarily Shooting an Elephant written

He bought her gifts such as apples and a glass lantern. He does everything for a show and to get self-glory. He buys 200 acres of land and he gives it to the people of Eatonville. He celebrated with the town giving them cheese and crackers following a barbecue. Janie is tied down by him she couldn’t have a relationship with anyone in the town. He thought everywhere they went and men were in their presence that they were trying to take her away from him. She didn’t have any freedom during speeches she could only stand there and just look pretty according to his standards. Almost In a sense as if she was his slave. She began to tell him how she is always muted all the time. He told how he want her head to be covered at all times and how when they went in the store she had to wear a head rag so her long hair wouldn’t hang down. She eventually got tired of him and decided she had enough of his stuff which made her decide to run away.

However, he stopped donating his money to charities and the lower class began to view him as just another rich guy who squanders his money, and not to mention he almost destroyed is business. In both stories, the struggle between the rich and the poor is majorly prevalent and the extent of the poverty is described perfectly in A Tale of Two Cities when wine is spilled outside of a shop, “A large cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street… All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine” (Dickens 31). This scene that Dickens puts together is used to show just how devastating the poverty was during this time. There was no grey area between the rich and the poor, no middle class. In the beginning, when Dickens writes, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” (Dickens 7), he is referring to how it was either the best, meaning the rich, or the worst, meaning the devastating

Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned British writers with well-known and widespread work. Dickens was born in England in 1812 and died in 1870. During this time, Victorian England experienced an Industrial Revolution, which impacted his life tremendously. New factories and industrial machinery changed many lives of the lower class citizens. The family grew up impoverished and struggled to maintain a good lifestyle. The family’s financial situation was strained as John Dickens, Charles’s father, spent money that the family didn’t have. These societal factors were influential in Charles Dickens’s life, and the same themes present themselves in his works. When an author creates a work, frequently themes of their life events are incorporated into the theme of the book, consciously or unconsciously. Victorian Age industrial-influenced strife was a common theme in Dickens’s life and presented itself throughout Dickens’s books.

Mrs Sparsit is introduced to Hard Times seven chapters into the book. She spends her time scheming against Louisa and cherishing her secret hopes of one day marrying Bounderby until he banishes her from his home. Dickens makes fun of Mrs Sparsit in many ways, including nominative determinism, detailing her increasingly desperate attempts to ruin Bounderby’s marriage in order to have him marry her and her relationship with Bounderby as well as by emphasizing her classical features and by playing up the way she carries herself.

Minny Jackson is married to Leroy, and they have 5 children. She is a very strong women, but who doesn’t take anything from anyone but her husband. Leroy often beats her when he is drunk, but she doesn’t want to tell anyone because she is too embarrassed and looks past it because she loves him so much. It all starts out when Minnie is working for Miss Hilly’s Mother, Miss Walters. Minny does nothing wrong until Miss Hilly makes a rumor about her and tells everyone that Minny has been stealing from her mother. She is later fired and jobless. Aibileen is helping Minny by looking for a job, she answers a phone at Leefolts and on the phone is Celia Rae Foote. Celia is a nice, beautiful young lady in her early twenties. She’s looking for a maid, which at this point Aibileen is acting like the person Celia is asking for and she recommends Minny. Celia has never had a maid, and doesn’t know how to act around them. When they meet, Celia is afraid that her house is too much for Minny to clean. Minny thinks that it's absurd

Charles Dickens is one of the most influential writers in history and was “born in Landport, now part of Portsmouth, on February 7th, 1812”(Priestly 5). Despite being the successful writer that he was in life, Dickens had very humble beginnings and because his Father, John Huffman Dickens, “lacked the money to support his family adequetly” , Dickens lived in poverty through out most of his childhood (Collins). Matters only got worse, however, when Dickens’s Father had to “spen[d] time in prison for debt” causing Dickens to have to “work in a London factory pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish” (Collins). It was a horrible experience for him, but it also helped him to no doubt feel pity for the poor, which is

In Hard Times, Dickens presents life philosophies of three men that directly contradict each other. James Harthouse sees one’s actions in life as meaningless since life is so short. Mr. Gradgrind emphasizes the importance of fact and discourages fantasy since life is exactly as it was designed to be. Mr. Slearly exhibits that “all work and no play” will make very dull people out of all of us. He also proclaims that one should never look back on one’s life and regret past actions. Dickens is certainly advocating Sleary’s life philosophy because the subjects of the other two philosophies led depressing and unhappy lives. This is made clear when Louisa realises her childhood of fact without fancy has ruined her, when Tom’s life falls apart after leaving his father’s home in rejection of his strict parenting, and when Mr. Gradgrind himself realises the faults in his own philosophy and devotes the rest of his life to virtue and charity.