Ashley Bingham A4
Hard Times
The novel begins in a city called Coketown, in a school room owned by a man named Thomas Gradgrind, who teaches nothing but cold, hard facts. Thomas and Mr. Bounderby-- a wealthy, arrogant industrialist who owns multiple factories and a bank-- set out to tell Sissy Jupe's (a child from Thomas's class) father that she is no longer allowed to attend school. When they arrive at the Inn in which Sissy lives, they find her father had abandoned her, leaving…
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