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• What kind of town was Coketown? boring and depressive
• What kind of culture did Coketown have? This rich condemned the laborers for religious antipathy and hopeless degeneration and insatiable craving.
• Why did Grandgrind come to Jupe’s place? To tell him that they had to expel his daughter from the school
• What proposal did Grandgrind make at the moment? Syssy could live with his family and receive education in his school until her father came back to find her.
• Where did the two gentlemen mean to go? Who did they come across on their way? The house of Sissy Jupe. Bitzer was running after Sissy.
Chapter 6
• Where was Jupe when Grandgrind and Boundby came to Sissy’s house? Gone.
• 4. How did Cecilia respond to the proposal by Grandgrind? Why?
Chapter 7 squander
• What do you know about Mrs. Sparsit? She was from a bankrupted noble family and married a husband expected to inherit lots of money. However, the husband spent all the money beforehand and died soon after the marriage. She worked now as Boundby’s mistress, and the latter usually lavished praises on her, so as to exalt himself.
• How did Louisa respond to Boundaby’s kiss. She rubbed her cheek very hard for a long time, demonstrating her great disgust toward Boundaby.
Chapter 5
• What did Boundaby and Grandgrind believe had caused the two children to make the mistake? They believed that Sissy Jupe, the new girl to the school and daughter of a vagabond performer, had poisoned Thomas and Louisa.
Chapter 11
• For what did Stephen go to have a talk to his employer, thus missing his lunch that day? To ask his boss Mr. Boundaby for advice on how to get a divorce from his alcoholic and degenerated wife.
• What did Grandgrind finally decide to do with Sissy? Keep her with his family.
Chapter 8
• What is Tom’s plan for his future? He planned to work at Mr. Bundaby’s bank.
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Introduction & Book 1
Book 1
Chapter 1
• Who was making a speech? A teacher of the school.
• What did he emphasize? He emphasized facts.
Chapter 10
• How did Old Stephen communicate with Rachael and the other woman? The three friends worked at the same factory and Stephen finally married his wife. The wife degenerated into alcoholism, and Rachael tried to take care of her. Rachael was careful in order to avoid gossip.
Chapter 3
• What did Grandgrind think of himself? What was his plan for the school? He held himself in high esteem as a sober, rational and practical man emphasizing facts.
Chapter 9
• How was Sissy doing in school? She was not doing very well, due to her lower academic starting and perhaps slower mind.
• What did Sissy tell Louisa? What did they talk about? Her father’s love to her and her father’s valuing scholarship and expectation for her.
• What kind of children were the Grandgrind children? They were disciplined and did well in their study, each aiming at something serious and high, but lack a life of color and joy typical of children, because they were forced into the footsteps of their father.
Chapter 2
• What did the teachers say about papering a room with drawings representing horses and carpeting with carpets with flower patterns? It was not logical and reasonable, and was wrong, because in reality horses did not run on a wall and people should not hurt the flowers.
• 2. How would Grandgrind’s children feel about their life?
• 3. How would you comment on Louisa and Tom’s stealing a glance at the circus performance?
• What does the title “Murder the Innocents” mean? The author means that the teachers, especially Grandgrind, were changing the innocent and natural children into distorted and biased people.
Chapter 4 conceited
• What did Mr. Boundaby think of himself? He was very proud of himself for rising from destitute (which might be somewhat exaggeration) to be an important figure in the town (a banker and so on).
Discussion 1
• How do you understand the title of Book 1 of the novel? And those of the first two chapters?
• 1. What do you think of the education of Grandgrind’s school?
• What did Grandgrind find Thomas and Louisa doing? The children, headed actually by Louisa, were steeling a peep at the performance of the circus, or vagabond performers.
• How did the talk go? According to Boundaby, there was no way for Stephen to get a divorce because he didn’t have money.
Chapter 12
• Who had a talk with Stephen when he came out of Boundaby’s house? An old woman talked with Stephen. She envied him for being able to see Boundaby often, respected him for having worked for Boundaby for many years, and loved him for loving his job.
Chapter 13
• Where did Stephen find Rachael this night? On the day when the old woman had a talk with him, Stephen finally found Rachael at his own room that night, taking care of his drunk and sick wife there, having received the notice from the landlady.
• How did Cecilia respond to the proposal? Why? (For discussion) She refused the kind invitations from her father’s circus friends and decided to stay with Mr. Grandgrind, because she wanted to wait for her father there. Otherwise, she believed, her father wouldn’t be able find her in the future.
• What kind of culture did Coketown have? This rich condemned the laborers for religious antipathy and hopeless degeneration and insatiable craving.
• Why did Grandgrind come to Jupe’s place? To tell him that they had to expel his daughter from the school
• What proposal did Grandgrind make at the moment? Syssy could live with his family and receive education in his school until her father came back to find her.
• Where did the two gentlemen mean to go? Who did they come across on their way? The house of Sissy Jupe. Bitzer was running after Sissy.
Chapter 6
• Where was Jupe when Grandgrind and Boundby came to Sissy’s house? Gone.
• 4. How did Cecilia respond to the proposal by Grandgrind? Why?
Chapter 7 squander
• What do you know about Mrs. Sparsit? She was from a bankrupted noble family and married a husband expected to inherit lots of money. However, the husband spent all the money beforehand and died soon after the marriage. She worked now as Boundby’s mistress, and the latter usually lavished praises on her, so as to exalt himself.
• How did Louisa respond to Boundaby’s kiss. She rubbed her cheek very hard for a long time, demonstrating her great disgust toward Boundaby.
Chapter 5
• What did Boundaby and Grandgrind believe had caused the two children to make the mistake? They believed that Sissy Jupe, the new girl to the school and daughter of a vagabond performer, had poisoned Thomas and Louisa.
Chapter 11
• For what did Stephen go to have a talk to his employer, thus missing his lunch that day? To ask his boss Mr. Boundaby for advice on how to get a divorce from his alcoholic and degenerated wife.
• What did Grandgrind finally decide to do with Sissy? Keep her with his family.
Chapter 8
• What is Tom’s plan for his future? He planned to work at Mr. Bundaby’s bank.
Hard s
Hard Times-1
Introduction & Book 1
Book 1
Chapter 1
• Who was making a speech? A teacher of the school.
• What did he emphasize? He emphasized facts.
Chapter 10
• How did Old Stephen communicate with Rachael and the other woman? The three friends worked at the same factory and Stephen finally married his wife. The wife degenerated into alcoholism, and Rachael tried to take care of her. Rachael was careful in order to avoid gossip.
Chapter 3
• What did Grandgrind think of himself? What was his plan for the school? He held himself in high esteem as a sober, rational and practical man emphasizing facts.
Chapter 9
• How was Sissy doing in school? She was not doing very well, due to her lower academic starting and perhaps slower mind.
• What did Sissy tell Louisa? What did they talk about? Her father’s love to her and her father’s valuing scholarship and expectation for her.
• What kind of children were the Grandgrind children? They were disciplined and did well in their study, each aiming at something serious and high, but lack a life of color and joy typical of children, because they were forced into the footsteps of their father.
Chapter 2
• What did the teachers say about papering a room with drawings representing horses and carpeting with carpets with flower patterns? It was not logical and reasonable, and was wrong, because in reality horses did not run on a wall and people should not hurt the flowers.
• 2. How would Grandgrind’s children feel about their life?
• 3. How would you comment on Louisa and Tom’s stealing a glance at the circus performance?
• What does the title “Murder the Innocents” mean? The author means that the teachers, especially Grandgrind, were changing the innocent and natural children into distorted and biased people.
Chapter 4 conceited
• What did Mr. Boundaby think of himself? He was very proud of himself for rising from destitute (which might be somewhat exaggeration) to be an important figure in the town (a banker and so on).
Discussion 1
• How do you understand the title of Book 1 of the novel? And those of the first two chapters?
• 1. What do you think of the education of Grandgrind’s school?
• What did Grandgrind find Thomas and Louisa doing? The children, headed actually by Louisa, were steeling a peep at the performance of the circus, or vagabond performers.
• How did the talk go? According to Boundaby, there was no way for Stephen to get a divorce because he didn’t have money.
Chapter 12
• Who had a talk with Stephen when he came out of Boundaby’s house? An old woman talked with Stephen. She envied him for being able to see Boundaby often, respected him for having worked for Boundaby for many years, and loved him for loving his job.
Chapter 13
• Where did Stephen find Rachael this night? On the day when the old woman had a talk with him, Stephen finally found Rachael at his own room that night, taking care of his drunk and sick wife there, having received the notice from the landlady.
• How did Cecilia respond to the proposal? Why? (For discussion) She refused the kind invitations from her father’s circus friends and decided to stay with Mr. Grandgrind, because she wanted to wait for her father there. Otherwise, she believed, her father wouldn’t be able find her in the future.