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IPorcelli - Caketown exercise on page 293
by IPorcelli - (2016-11-14)
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Exercise page 283

3. Caketown was a town of red brick, a town painted of unnatural red and black, a town of machinery and tall chimneys. It had a black canal in it and a river who was smelling. It has a vast piles of building full of windows. Caketown also contained several large and small streets very similar one another.
4. The public buildings are very similar in Caketown in the 1854.
5. 1. A native organization of Caketown want to be heard of in the House of Commons every session, indignantly petitioning for acts of parliament that should make these people religious by main force. 2. The Teetotal Society showed in tabular statements that they did get drunk and proved at tea parties that no inducement, human or Divine would induce them to forego their custom of getting drunk. 3. With the tabular statements the chemist and the druggist show that the inhabits of Caketown took opium. 4. The aim of the jail chaplain was to show that the same people would resort to low haunts, hidden from public eyes, where they heard low singing and sow low dancing and mayhap joined it. 5. They want to prove that same people were a bad lot altogether rather than gentlemen.
6. It is a third person narrator.
7. In my opinion the key world on this passage is material, because the industrial revolution is characterized of this term.
9. Repetitions are: "like" and "the same" at line 11 and "fact" at line 38- 42. In my opinion they underline the monotony of inhabitants of caketown