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A review by sapientreader
Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Gage McWeeny, Jeff Nunokawa
5.0
The words spoke the truth with such beauty> Absolutely loved it. So many characters, so much pain among them , so many stories. The Ugliness of education. What I learned from this is that education is like food , it is required to certain extent but excessive of it can 'ruin' ones life.
Oh, how much did Louisa suffer just because she respected her father and cared for her brother. Her brother, a fine example of man with no moral values. Moral values he lost because they weren't facts which he had to memorize. Life of an uneducated girl, like Sissy turned out happy in the end, at least it left that impression. Made me recollect me seeing 3-4 year old waking up at 3-4 am to go to school. Education is taking childhood from children, taking their innocence and turning it into something worse. Education should be encouraged but not forced both on Universal level as well as family level. People need to realize there is more to life than money,power and education. Charles Dickens expressed this with the best way possible !
I leave this review with the ending quote which tore my soul apart 3
" Dear reader! It rests with you and me, whether, in our two fields of action, similar things shall be or not. Let them be! We shall sit with lighter bosoms on the hearth, to see the ashes of our fires turn gray and cold"
Oh, how much did Louisa suffer just because she respected her father and cared for her brother. Her brother, a fine example of man with no moral values. Moral values he lost because they weren't facts which he had to memorize. Life of an uneducated girl, like Sissy turned out happy in the end, at least it left that impression. Made me recollect me seeing 3-4 year old waking up at 3-4 am to go to school. Education is taking childhood from children, taking their innocence and turning it into something worse. Education should be encouraged but not forced both on Universal level as well as family level. People need to realize there is more to life than money,power and education. Charles Dickens expressed this with the best way possible !
I leave this review with the ending quote which tore my soul apart 3
" Dear reader! It rests with you and me, whether, in our two fields of action, similar things shall be or not. Let them be! We shall sit with lighter bosoms on the hearth, to see the ashes of our fires turn gray and cold"