ACTIVITY  1

C. Dickens Chapter V

BUILDINGS: red bricks,  machinery and tall chimneys, serpents of smoke, buildings full of windows, large and small streets, no differences between jail and infirmary.

WATER:  black canal, purple because of the dye      

A. De Tocqueville Manchester

BUILDIBGS:  scattered palaces and hovels, thirty or forty six storied factories producing steam and fog, roads full of puddles and ruts, narrow and twisting, immense workshops, cellars damp and repulsive

LAND: collection of little hills, uneven ground, damp land, uncultivated land round dwellings

WATER: narrow river, streams with numerous bends, fetid, muddy, stained with colors by industries

ACTIVITY 2

Examples of accomulation:

·         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 a 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 (…)

• The fetid, muddy waters, stained with a thousand colours by the factories they pass, of one of the streams I mentioned before, wander slowly round this refuge of poverty. 

Both descriptions emphasize the negative effects of industrialization on man and nature.

Examples of cotrasts:

• here is the slave, there the master; there is the wealth of some, here the poverty of most; there the organised efforts of thousands produce, to the profit of one man, what society has not yet learnt to give. Here the weakness of the individual seems more feeble and helpless even than in the middle of a wildernes 
• From this filthy sewer pure gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish; here civilization makes its miracles, and civilised man is turned back almost into a savage 
• Everything in the exterior appearance of the city attests the individual powers of man; nothing the directing power of society 

In both texts shows a negative view of industrialization, at the beginning of the text  both the authors describe the geographical features of the city of which they speak. The writers criticize the society in the cities where they live and they link to support real appearance facts. Those were societies where production was more important than human, a life for a few people and a nightmare for the most. Both writers use the technique of sense impressions to create in the reader's mind a picture of what really happened. Thus both writers are intrusive and omniscient narrators, they express their negative opinions towards industrialization and its effects and the reader can not create his own idea.