The colors of the town are black and red - red brick covered in black ash from the factories, which even infected the river to bleed these colors combined: It was a town of red brick, or brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as the matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. ... It had a black canal in it and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye. (30) Associating Coketown with "the painted face of a savage" implies that the growing urbanization is in reality the opposite of what it claims to be; rath...

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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". ...

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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. ...

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