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'Hard Times' is a novel about the social condition of poverty, though very little characters are considered poor. Do you think the book does an effective job of shaping our view of poverty?

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1. 'Hard Times' is a novel about the social condition of poverty, though very little characters are considered poor. Do you think the book does an effective job of shaping our view of poverty?

By centering his book on characters with whom his middle class readers could identify, Dickens was able to evoke sympathy for characters whom they may not otherwise be able to identify with. However, the book could also reinforce the ideas that the middle class has about the working poor and offers no real solutions.
Boredom.
The middle of the 19th century, probably 1854, in a small town called Coketown. The town is a manufacturing town in southern England.
The narrator's tone varies drastically, but it is frequently ironic, mocking, and even satirical, especially when he describes Bounderby, Harthouse, and Mrs. Sparsit. When describing Stephen and Rachael, his tone is pathetic, evoking sympathy.

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