ACTIVITY I

Buildings: red brick, tall chimneys, vast piles of building full of windows, a chapel, New Church, school, hospital, cemetery, market, furnaces,

water: black canal, river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye

ACTIVITY II

Examples of accumulation and contrast:

- 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 a savage. 

- interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled

- the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness

- large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another

- These attributes of Coketown were in the main inseparable from the work by which it was sustained; against them were to be set off, comforts of life which found their way all over the world, and elegancies of life which made, we will not ask how much of the fine lady, who could scarcely bear to hear the place mentioned

Both of J. Winterson and C. Dickens show in their own texts the negativity in Manchester : the industrialization had brought nasty conditions in population and polluted the natural surroundings as a consequence. Both of texts show the bad labourer’s conditions. Unlike C.Dickens, J. Winterson gives more quantitative and qualitative information about the industrialization.