From the "coiling serpent" we can direct the idea that Coketown is also an immoral and sinful place and the thought of the "black river", an allusion to the river Styx, almost makes it look like hell. ... Grad and grind both suggest that he is "grinding" the facts into these children's minds. The children are mere "vessels" for transporting information. ... Gradgrind is so convinced of the necessity of fact that he has raised his children exactly according to that conviction. ... Knowing all this, the fact that the children are starved of imagination and want to look through a loophole at...

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• Grade Level: High School

Even when Catherine grows old enough for the question of marriage to arise, her relationship with Heathcliff remains the same as when they were children. ... Disgusted with the army and deciding to dessert his unit, as he has had enough of war; he dives into the river to escape. ...

• Word Count: 1181
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Dickens describes a situation that would terrify most children and he uses humour alongside the fear. ... Pip makes his way home but before he leaves the cemetery he looks back at the convict walking away - "But presently I looked over my shoulder, and saw him going on again towards the river, still hugging himself in both arms, and picking his way with sore feet among the great stones dropped into the marshes here and there, for stepping-places when the rains were heavy, or the tide was in". ...

• Word Count: 1797
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Great Expectations. "Great Expectations" was written by Charles Dickens in 1861. "Great Expectations" is a coming of age story that revolves around the life of one man Pip. From the time he was seven years old until he was in the mid thirties, Pip shows us the important events in his life that s...

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Children who start out asking numerous questions may become felons, or they may become inquisitive men working as a lawyer or a merchant making money by selling fine goods through England's maritime trade. ... The vessel on the River Thames at Woolwich was named "Warrior" and can be described thus: there were 3 decks, the Upper, the Middle and the Lower. ...

• Word Count: 1954
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School