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BGolles - Coketown, Charles Dickens (Exercise pag 293 from Performer Culture & Literature 1+2)
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Ex. 3 "Read"

It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but, as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of mellancholy madness. It cointained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets stil more like one another, inhabitated by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hour, with the same sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow, and every year the counterpart of the last and the next.

Ex. 4 "Underline"

-New Church

-Jail/Infirmary

-School

Ex. 5 "Answer"

1) There was a native organisation in Coketown, whose members were to be heard of in the House of Commons every session, indignatly petitioning for acts of parliament that should make these people religious by main force.

2)They showed in Tabular statements that people get drunk and proved at tea parties that no inducement, human or Divine would induce them to forego their custom of getting drunk.

3)They showed that in other tabular statements.

4)The aim was outdoing all the previous tabular statements and showing that the same people would resort to low haunts, hidden from the public eye, where they heard low singing and saw low dancing, and mayhap joined in it.

5)Mr Gradgring and Mr Bounderby wanted to fournish more tabular statements derived from their own personal experience and illustrated by cases they had known and seen from which it clearly appeared.

Ex. 6 "Define"

Narrator: third person narrator.

Ex. 7 "Decide"

Tabular statements.

Ex. 8 "Find"

-Smiles: Black like the painted face of savage/like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness/like florid wooden legs/like gold that had stood the fire/

-Metaphors:/

-Industrialisation is criticised

Ex. 9 "Description"

1)brick/red/town/smoke/ever/black/buildings/another/day/work/nothing/jail/infirmery/school/triumph/streets/religion/drugs/drunk/tabular statements

2)Monotony/Alienation