Friday, 11 March 2022
Hard Times Key Links
Part Three
Garnering
Gather or collect something.
Sowing, Reaping, Garnering
• Cause, e ect, dealing with said e ect.
• Spring, summer, autumn - what is winter? Survival? Destruction of society/
individual?
• Agricultural metaphor - ironic, people are commodities.
Character Sowing Reaping Garnering
Louisa ‘Louisa looked at her ‘“I shall die if you hold ‘a wife - a mother’ ‘Did
father with more me! Let me fall upon Louisa see this? Such
boldness than Tom.’ the ground!”’ a thing was never to
be.’
Gradgrind ‘square coat, square ‘“What can I do, child? ‘sitting thoughtful in his
legs, square shoulders’ Ask me what you will.”’ own room’ ‘a white
‘square house’ haired decrepit man’
Sissy ‘so dark eyed that it ‘had lived the rest of ‘happy Sissy’s happy
seemed to receive a her life on equal terms children loving her’
deep and lustrous with her family.’
colour.’
Stephen Blackpool ‘he looked older but ‘“You can nish o ‘“I ha’ been - dreadful,
had a hard life’ what you’re at,” said and dree, and long, my
‘someone else has Mr Bounderby […], dear - but ’tis ower
possession of his “and then go now.”’ ‘“coover my
roses’ elsewhere.”’ face!”’
Bitzer ‘the self same rays ‘a very light porter ‘"I don’t deny […] that
drew out what little indeed; as light as in my schooling was
colour he possessed’ the days when he cheap. But […] I was
blinkingly de ned a made in the cheapest
horse, for girl number market.”’
twenty.’
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Hard Times Key Links
Part Three
Garnering
Gather or collect something.
Sowing, Reaping, Garnering
• Cause, e ect, dealing with said e ect.
• Spring, summer, autumn - what is winter? Survival? Destruction of society/
individual?
• Agricultural metaphor - ironic, people are commodities.
Character Sowing Reaping Garnering
Louisa ‘Louisa looked at her ‘“I shall die if you hold ‘a wife - a mother’ ‘Did
father with more me! Let me fall upon Louisa see this? Such
boldness than Tom.’ the ground!”’ a thing was never to
be.’
Gradgrind ‘square coat, square ‘“What can I do, child? ‘sitting thoughtful in his
legs, square shoulders’ Ask me what you will.”’ own room’ ‘a white
‘square house’ haired decrepit man’
Sissy ‘so dark eyed that it ‘had lived the rest of ‘happy Sissy’s happy
seemed to receive a her life on equal terms children loving her’
deep and lustrous with her family.’
colour.’
Stephen Blackpool ‘he looked older but ‘“You can nish o ‘“I ha’ been - dreadful,
had a hard life’ what you’re at,” said and dree, and long, my
‘someone else has Mr Bounderby […], dear - but ’tis ower
possession of his “and then go now.”’ ‘“coover my
roses’ elsewhere.”’ face!”’
Bitzer ‘the self same rays ‘a very light porter ‘"I don’t deny […] that
drew out what little indeed; as light as in my schooling was
colour he possessed’ the days when he cheap. But […] I was
blinkingly de ned a made in the cheapest
horse, for girl number market.”’
twenty.’
1
fiff fi ff ff
