The present text is an extract of Charles Dickens's novel "Hard Times". The title of the text is "Coketown" and it is the Chapter 5 of the novel.
The extract tell about the industrial centre of Coketown, describes the lifestyle of the inhabitants and the atmosphere of the town.
The novelist uses the third person narrator and he is able to involve the reader in reading indeed the reader could perceive the melancholy and the monotony that characterize life in Coketown.
The monotony derived from the people's work that every day perform the same job in industries. The same monotony characterize streets, houses, colors, sounds... Every building is equal to another.
In the text we read: "You saw nothing in Coketown but what was severely workful". The intelligent reader can understand that in the town the center of everything is work. Nothing is more important than work.
The narrator uses short phrases and a lot of repetition, metaphor and similitudes to emphasize some concepts.