This is an extract of Charles Dickens's novel "Hard Times" that is centred on the description of the industrial centre of Coketown, where the story is set.

Dickens is the third person narrator that gives readers an idea of what and how was Coketown and how people lived there.

First, the narrator, explains that Coketown was a "town of machinery and tall chimneys that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it".

It was a city full of streets, vast piles of builings full of windows, all equal to each other, as people that all do the same work everyday.

In Coketown everything was several workful: chapels that religious built there were replaced with "piouswarehouse", the jail might have been the infirmary or viceversa, school were facts. Everything was immaterial.

In that period came the "Teetotal Society" who complained that people would get drunk and 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 costum of getting drunk.

Chemist and druggist showed that they did not get drunk because they took opium.

Dickes used a lot of repetition of words and phrases to underline Coketown's monotony.

He also used metaphors and smiles to emphasizes his concepts and for criticising the process of Industrialisation.