Life in Coketown Essay

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Coketown is similar to all other towns in size and extent, but what makes Coketown different from all other towns, is its fact that it has a large amount of bustling factories. The city of Coketown has factories of all shapes and sizes, from little factories to huge factories. Each factory has a towering chimney that spews and billows smoke into the air. The air is filled with suffocating pollution. Next to the town lays a flowing river that reeks of dye. Inside of Coketone, the factories are filled with people working. Everyone works, including children, adults, and sometimes even the elderly, and each age group is affected by the city emotionally, physically, and mentally. The children of Coketown had life rough. Instead of being educated, most children in Coketown were sent to factories or mines to work. To make things worse, most of the times the children were stuck with some of the hardest, most tiring jobs. First of all, they would be beat down emotionally day by day as they performed their hard labor. As a result the children probably cried a lot! Secondly, was the physical toll that their labor had on the children. Sometimes, the children would get hurt, but they were forced to work through the pain! This leaves them scarred and probably deformed. Lastly, is the mental affect on the children in Coketown. Most of the working children in Coketown were most likely mentally unstable due to their lack of education, no childhood, and hard, exhausting labor. All in all, the children had no youth and were immediately put into years of depression, restless work, and hard livelihoods. Adults in Coketown were also affected by the city and its industrial industry. They too were affected emotionally, physically, and mentally. First of all, the adults were affected emotionally because they were poor, had the burden to support their families, and they had to watch
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