Hard Times By Charles Dickens Book 1 Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1
1. It first takes place in an empty classroom with only a few people in it.
2. There is one man described as dark-eyed and rigid, another an adult, and also a schoolmaster.
3. The three characters are discussing teaching children. The dark-eyed man sticks by the method of teaching using facts and facts only because he believes that is all that they will need in their life. He thinks that memorizing is effective way of learning.
Chapter 2
1. Placed in Coketowm, a bland factory based town where Thomas Gradgrind created the school. Coketown is known to be excessively dirty and industrialized.
2. It is discovered the dark-eyed rigid man is Thomas Gradgrind who built the school. Also in this chapter Mr. Mcchoakumchild is introduced who is one of the teachers at the school. Lastly, a boy named Bitzer and a girl named Sissy Jupe enter the story.
3. Through this chapter Thomas Gradgrind hires Mr. Mcchoakumchild as a teacher in his school. He makes it clear to teach the students nothing but facts. Mr. Mccoakumchild asks Sissy Jupe for the definition of horse. She cannot answer but Bitzer gives him a satisfying definition.
Chapter 3
1. This chapter takes place mostly outside near a circus tent and at Thomas Gradgrind’s home, also known as Stone Lodge.
2. Thomas Gradgrind’s two oldest children are introduced to the story, Tom and Louisa. Thomas is furious with his kids and they elaborate that they were only curious about the circus scene.
3. Tom and Louisa find a small hole in the fence at a circus and are watching. Their father finds them and is enraged because he does not want them to be looking at entertainment and such having to do with imagination. He raised them to stick strictly by facts. Louisa defends her brother saying she convinced him to watch with her and that she was only curious.
Chapter 4
1. It tells about how Mr. Bounderby was born and raised while they are in a drawing room at Stone Lodge.
2. Characters introduced include Thomas
1. It first takes place in an empty classroom with only a few people in it.
2. There is one man described as dark-eyed and rigid, another an adult, and also a schoolmaster.
3. The three characters are discussing teaching children. The dark-eyed man sticks by the method of teaching using facts and facts only because he believes that is all that they will need in their life. He thinks that memorizing is effective way of learning.
Chapter 2
1. Placed in Coketowm, a bland factory based town where Thomas Gradgrind created the school. Coketown is known to be excessively dirty and industrialized.
2. It is discovered the dark-eyed rigid man is Thomas Gradgrind who built the school. Also in this chapter Mr. Mcchoakumchild is introduced who is one of the teachers at the school. Lastly, a boy named Bitzer and a girl named Sissy Jupe enter the story.
3. Through this chapter Thomas Gradgrind hires Mr. Mcchoakumchild as a teacher in his school. He makes it clear to teach the students nothing but facts. Mr. Mccoakumchild asks Sissy Jupe for the definition of horse. She cannot answer but Bitzer gives him a satisfying definition.
Chapter 3
1. This chapter takes place mostly outside near a circus tent and at Thomas Gradgrind’s home, also known as Stone Lodge.
2. Thomas Gradgrind’s two oldest children are introduced to the story, Tom and Louisa. Thomas is furious with his kids and they elaborate that they were only curious about the circus scene.
3. Tom and Louisa find a small hole in the fence at a circus and are watching. Their father finds them and is enraged because he does not want them to be looking at entertainment and such having to do with imagination. He raised them to stick strictly by facts. Louisa defends her brother saying she convinced him to watch with her and that she was only curious.
Chapter 4
1. It tells about how Mr. Bounderby was born and raised while they are in a drawing room at Stone Lodge.
2. Characters introduced include Thomas