Hard Times
I bow down to the great Dickens
Whose name has touched every soil,
And whose art has touched every soul,
His art "Hard Times" has travelled far and wide
When at last built it's castle at Sherubtse college,
Fortuitous me, met his art in the class
And heard all of its elongated tales,
And today I will tell you some of his tales.
In an industrial city named Coketown,
Dwells the well off man 'Josaigh Bounderby'
Who was a banker and a factory owner,
He had a pal 'Thomas Gradgrind'
Who was not only a politician by profession
But also an education reformer.
In the school he owns,
Students including his children Tom and Louisa,
Are taught no other than the facts
Where creativity and imagination has no home in his schooling system.
Gradgrind adopts Sisy Jupe,
A abandoned daughter of the clown as his servant
And offers his own children
Tom and Louisa to Bounderby.
Tom serves him as his bank clerk
Poor Louisa has her fate against her will
Where she has to marry him.
Stephen Blackpool, a descent man
And a worker in Bounderby's factory
Has been host for all miseries of the world,
His alcoholic wife invites all troubles
Divorce he yearns so desperately,
But Puritan law consents no wills.
And his secret feeling to 'Rachael'
Adds fuel to his afflictions,
Hard was the time for him.
Gridgrand now becomes the member of parliament,
James Harthouse from London comes
And under Gridgrand's guidance he bow
For he yearns to be a politician.
Too short his time has passed in Coketown
And too short he took to fall for Louisa,
Mrs. Spariat who was a housekeeper for Bounderby
Has stretch his arms to Harthouse
And together they try to corrupt Louisa.
" The Hands", or the employees
Had thier heads United to form union
Under the leadership of Slackbridge,
Together they want to wage strike
Against their unfaithful employer Bounderby.
Poor Blackpool denied to take part
For he smells troubles ahead,
His neutrality was not a vain
For Bounderby wants him to spy other workers,
He deny to spy them either
When at last he was shun away by both.
His integrity has earn him no profit
Rather he lost his job.
He decides to leave Coketown
And Louisa gave him money
For she appreciates his integrity.
Tom too comes to him,
" Wait for some days near the bank
For help will come to you" said Tom
And he waited but no help arrive,
So he left coketown.
No sooner he left the town
Bonderby's bank was tereibly roped,
Poor Blackpool became the lone suspect
For he was seen loitering around the bank afore he left Coketown.
Angered Bounderby lays all his strength
To catch poor Stephen Blackpool
For he was the robber,
Bounderby's anger gets aggravated
When Louisa began to fight for her fate,
She left him, and went with Harthouse.
Louisa's action was like a Preacher
For her father Gradgrind learnt a lesson,
That his philosophy has imperfection.
Stephen, an accused robber
Comes back to clear his good name
But mets with tragedy on his way,
Into the mining pit he fall and suffered,
Too late did Pachael and Sissy Jupe saw him
For he breath his last shortly.
Gradgrind and Louisa learns
That Tom was responsible for robbery,
Off they went to sneak him out from England.
Tom now pretends to be a clown
For the safety of none but for himslef,
Secretly they plans to send him away
But Bitzer spots them,
He tried to hault them for his gain
But all his effort went into vain
For circus guys help Tom away.
The tale is now coming to an end,
Bounderby dies of fit in the street.
Remorseful Gridgrand lives long
While Louisa lives not to marry ever,
Tom dies abroad with great remorse while Rachael lives caring Stephen's drunken wife.
All characters except the poor Sissy Jupe
Had her worldly life ever
For she married successfully
And had her peaceful family.
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Yedar Yedar
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