•·         He chooses him just because he is a boy.

•·         He seems to be really satisfied after a scientific definition of a horse.

•·         Sissy is a shy girl, considered not as a human being by Mr. Gradgrind. He calls her with a number, ot a name. the boy seems to be superior to her.

•·         There is a third person omniscient narrator.

•·         Mr. Grandgrin is a really contrasting character: first he does not want to talk about horses during his lesson, but then he asks another student a proper definition.

•·         The tone is really serious, it seems to be the tone used at school.

•·         There are too many characteristic traits and that is what makes him a caricature. There is an exaggeration in the description of his skills; the reader immediately understands it is a parody and that the grotesque is used.

•·         His intention is to describe the inferiority of children to man.

•·         It is not a positive view. He wants to criticize his work so it is neither a good education. He just bases on the scientific point of view and does not consider human being his students.

•·         She knows a lot about horses, her father is a farrier, but in Mr. Gradgrind's opinion she does not know anything about them.