COKETOWN

=COKETOWN=

1- What was the town made up of? 1- The town was made up of bricks.

2- What colour were the buldings? 2- The colour of the building was red and black.

3- Why was it that way? 3- Because there were the industries that produced smoke and ashes.

4- What colour were the canal and the river? 4- The canal was black and the river was purple.

5- What type of noise could the inhabitants hear? 5- The inhabitans could hear the noise of the piston of the steam-engine which worked monotonously up and down.

6- What were the people like? 6- The people were equally like one another.

7- What did they do? 7- They went in and out at the same hour to do the same work everyday.

COKETOWN from Hard Times
... Let us strike the key-note, Coketown, before pursuing our tune. 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. 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, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow, and every year the counterpart of the last and the next. []


 * 1) the town was of red bricks because of smoke and ashes.
 * 2) the building colour was an unnatural red and black
 * 3) the town was that way because there were tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled
 * 4) the canal was a black and the river was purple with ill-smelling dye
 * 5) the inhabitants could hear a rattling and a trembling all day long
 * 6) the people were equally like one another
 * 7) the people did the same work at the same hours every days was the same as yesterday and tomorrow and every year the counterpart of last and the next

[| Dickens. Hard times]

[| Dickens. Hard times]