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1. Presentation
Name : Daniyal Asif
Subject: Novel
Submit to: Sir Ali Aslam

2. Novel : Hard Time
By Charles Dickens

3. Book 2:
Book II continues about a year after the
Bounderby marriage. Coke-town is little
different and the life of the poor is as hard.
Bitzer informs Mrs. Sparsit of the common
labors and their lack of values and their
inability to save money and improve upon
their condition. Bitzer and Mrs. Sparsit is
very much like a relationship between a
spy and his employer.

4. Chapter Two:
Mr. James Hart house
Mr. Gradgrind is hiring the stranger, Mr. James Hart
house, as an instructor in his school. He will be one
of many who are trained in logic and statistics and
eager to help relieve children of their imaginations.
After At Bounderby's mansion, Hart house meets
Louisa and he finds her very attractive but very hard
to understand. Hart house notices that Louisa's
ungrateful younger brother, Tom, is the only person
that can make her happy. She smiles when she sees
him. At the end of the chapter, it is Tom who
accompanies Hart house to his hotel room.

5. Chapter 3”
Tom Gradgrind has become quite disobedient
the harshness of his education and he is
incredibly hypocritical and disrespectful. He
makes no effort to hide his respect for Mr.
Bounderby even as he fascinated by Mr. Hart
house's flashy clothes and he befriends him
for this largely superficial reason. Tom very
quickly becomes a pledge of Mr. Hart house.
After a little alcohol and some tobacco, Tom is
loose-lipped and uninhibited in his criticism of
Mr. Bounderby. At one point, Tom goes as far
as to say that he is the only person that Louisa
cares about and that it is only for his well-
being that she agreed to marry Mr. Bounderby.

6. Chapter Four:
This chapter returns to the life of Coke
town's laboring poor. A crafty and
dishonest man named Slack bridge is at
the head of a movement to create labor
unions. Stephen be given a chance to
defend himself.
Stephen Character lacks the rhetorical
skills and the manipulative desires.
Stephen's life has simply gone from bad to
worse and things look to get little better
when he receives a order to see Mr.
Bounderby in his residence.

7. Chapter Five:
When Stephen arrives he is in the company of
Mr. Bounderby intends to make an example of
Stephen and present him to Mr. Harthouse as
a sort of specimen of the lower
classes. Stephen replies that he made a
promise not to join the union and that is why he
has refrained (but this is not a promise he has
made to Bounderby but to another).
When Mr. Bounderby describes the group as a
gang of "rascals and rebels," Stephen argues
in their favor and explains that economics is at
the root of their crisis.

8. Chapter Six:
By the time Stephen leaves Mr.
Bounderby's house it is getting dark.
Walking to his slum, he encounters
walking alongside the old country
woman that he had seen about a
year previous. Just as she had been
before, the lady was in a cheery
mood despite the somber
atmosphere. She has heard about
Mr. Bounderby being married and
she was hoping that she might get a
chance to see the bride.

9. Chapter Seven:
Mr. Harthouse has been very
successful in his teaching job and he
is considered to have great promise
in the industry. He has been devoting
most of his attention to Louisa,
however. Louisa is clearly unhappy in
her marriage and
she repeats the question that she
posed her father: "

10. Chapter 8:
Louisa arrives at her father's house in
Coketown, much to his surprise. She is
incredibly worried, but far from Mrs.
Sparsit's expectations, she is not
engaged in any romantic enterprise.
Louisa begins an angry interrogation of
her father in regards to her education ‹
where are her emotions: "the graces of
my soul?

11. She appeals her father to save her from her
situation for he has gotten her into it. She
then passes out on the ground and Mr.
Gradgrind's educational system has come
crashing down with her.
This is the end of Book Two

12. Thankyou!