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A review by helgamharb
Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Jeff Nunokawa, Gage McWeeny
5.0
This story is somewhat different from Charles Dickens' other stories. It is set in an imaginary city (Coketown) and is a dark and sad story of people's daily struggles in an industrial era. Where beauty and love is replaced by smoke and grime. There are the usual Dickens' characters, with their ironic names, such as Gradgrind, M'Choakumchild and Bounderby...The ending is neither happy nor sad and it is practically a Dickensian ending "reap what you sow".
There is a paragraph in the conversation between Mr. Gradgrind and his daughter Louisa the second time they talk in his study, which touched me deeply.
Louisa to her father: 'How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, O father, what have you done, with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here!'
There is a paragraph in the conversation between Mr. Gradgrind and his daughter Louisa the second time they talk in his study, which touched me deeply.
Louisa to her father: 'How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, O father, what have you done, with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here!'