The test is an extract taken from the 5th chapter of Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times called Coketown.

The word coke means coal, the fuel of industrialization, so the reader , just from the title, can expect the test is about industrialization.

The test is written in third person and Dickens describes the city in a negative way using sense impression and a lot of symbols.

The narrator make also a list of the city's colours.

The city from the description appears monotonous in colour and in sound.

Very important is the symbolic meaning of the colour black and red. These colours symbolized the darkness and the fire that refers to the people sufferance.

The people have lost their personality, and in the city there are a lot of contradictions.

These contradictions remind to the double face of capitalism.