Who in the novel do you think had the hardest time? (Charles Dickens' Novel "Hard Times").

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Richard Jefferis 11D

Who in the novel do you think had the hardest time?

As far as I can see there is only one character in Charles Dickens’ Novel “Hard Times” how actually has an easy life, and that is James Harthouse this is because he is bored with life and has don’t most things.  In this essay I will study three main characters from this novel that have a hard time in life and they are Stephan Blackpool, Sissy Jupe and Lousia Gradgrind.  I have chosen these characters because they are from three different arrears of social groups.

First comes Stephan Blackpool and in the novel Stephan has a hard time because he is working class and is not paid as much as other people.  His wife is a drunkard and keeps leaving and them coming back he paid her to go and during the novel she comes back and that’s where his life takes a migration south because he is in love with some one else.  Part way through the novel he goes to see Mr Bounderby for advice on how he might be able to get rid of he and during their convocation Stephan starts to lose hope.

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When Mr Bounderby tells him that there is know way to get rid of his wife he realises, as the chapter is named, there is know way out for him.  Another reason his life is hard is because he loses his job because he refuses to join a union because he made a promise to the woman he loves and he is a man of his word.

Sissy Jupe has a hard life at the beginning on the novel ...

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