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he uses a lot of descriptions and similes to show the implications in which the society is inflicting. For example, the steam engine is constantly going up and down is "like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness," (1057). He also uses metaphors like "it had a black canal," and "interminable serpents of smoke" (1057). He is portraying a point that the government in this town is not caring enough about there community so therefore he feels he needs to get the message across about how socially unacceptable this is. As he conveys these ideas to the reader he uses representation to give an object human life. An example when he gives an object a human life structure is; "It was a town of unnatural red and black like a painted face of a savage,"(1057).

By doing this he was stressing the importance of how nothing is progressing and the politicians need to take another look at the communities whole social and living structure. He makes inferences on industrialization and the effect that it has like "the river ran purple" and "it had a black canal in it" (1057) This is just showing how much out of hand the social concern of industrialization had got to and how pollution had got to a big height. "It was.

industrialism was described by Eric Hobsbawm as “the most fundamental transformation of human life in the history of the world” (P1818). Cotton industry was the first wave of the Industrial Revolution; the wealth in Britain was not shared with any poor. Considering this pollution and suffering Dickens wrote about Manchester, which he called the CokeTown. “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.” Here Dickens was telling us about the change in color of the bricks houses due to the industrial pollution (caused by the machinery and tall chimneys). “It contained several large streets all