In chapter 12 of book 2, Louisa has a breakdown to her father about how she is unhappy and about how the way that she has been raised is useless to her. Right before she started breaking down Louisa asks her father “What have you done, O father, what have you done, with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here”? The garden that she mentions can relate to the facts that have planted into the minds of the children starting from book one. The garden of plants that were thought to be all-important in the development of a successful individual. By this point in the book it is obvious that the consequences of the “sowing” of these facts in book 1, are ready to be reaped but the consequences are not positive, like they were meant to be. Louisa states, “All I know is, your teaching a philosophy will not save me” (Dickens 211). The fact that marrying Bounderby would give Louisa everything she needs, that Gradgrind has planted in Louisa’s head in the first book, has resulted in her becoming unhappy and having negative results that will be “reaped”.
Monday, October 22, 2012
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Analysis #3:
In chapter 12 of book 2, Louisa has a breakdown to her father about how she is unhappy and about how the way that she has been raised is useless to her. Right before she started breaking down Louisa asks her father “What have you done, O father, what have you done, with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here”? The garden that she mentions can relate to the facts that have planted into the minds of the children starting from book one. The garden of plants that were thought to be all-important in the development of a successful individual. By this point in the book it is obvious that the consequences of the “sowing” of these facts in book 1, are ready to be reaped but the consequences are not positive, like they were meant to be. Louisa states, “All I know is, your teaching a philosophy will not save me” (Dickens 211). The fact that marrying Bounderby would give Louisa everything she needs, that Gradgrind has planted in Louisa’s head in the first book, has resulted in her becoming unhappy and having negative results that will be “reaped”.
In chapter 12 of book 2, Louisa has a breakdown to her father about how she is unhappy and about how the way that she has been raised is useless to her. Right before she started breaking down Louisa asks her father “What have you done, O father, what have you done, with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here”? The garden that she mentions can relate to the facts that have planted into the minds of the children starting from book one. The garden of plants that were thought to be all-important in the development of a successful individual. By this point in the book it is obvious that the consequences of the “sowing” of these facts in book 1, are ready to be reaped but the consequences are not positive, like they were meant to be. Louisa states, “All I know is, your teaching a philosophy will not save me” (Dickens 211). The fact that marrying Bounderby would give Louisa everything she needs, that Gradgrind has planted in Louisa’s head in the first book, has resulted in her becoming unhappy and having negative results that will be “reaped”.
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