Hard Times Charles Dickens
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'NOW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls
nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant
nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only
form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing
else will ever be of any service to them. This is the
principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is
the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to
Facts, sir!'
2
The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a
school-room, and the speaker's square forefinger
emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster's sleeve. The
emphasis was helped by the speaker's square wall of a
forehead, which had his eyebrows for its base, while his
eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves,
overshadowed by the wall. The emphasis was helped by
the speaker's mouth, which was wide, thin, and hard set.
The emphasis was helped by the speaker's voice, which
was inflexible, dry, and dictatorial. The emphasis was
helped by the speaker's hair, which bristled on the skirts of
his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its
shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a
plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for
the hard facts stored inside. The speaker's obstinate
carriage, square coat, square legs, square shoulders,-nay,
his very neckcloth, trained to take him by the throat with

What may the reader infer about the historical period in which this story
is set?
A) It is a time of great poverty.
B) It is a time when many children were hungry and
thirsty.
C) It is a time when educational trends didn't favor
whimsy.
D) It is a time when educational trends didn't favor
manners.

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in a place once known as north america, now known as panem, is a very rich city surrounded by twelve districts. every year because this very rich city, known as the capitol, is so rich and likes to think they control all the districts - which they do - there is something known as the hunger games! this is where two children, one boy and one girl from each district from the ages of twelve to eighteen, have to leave their families and compete in the hunger games, a live event that is aired on tv's all over panem. when katniss everdeen, aged sixteen from district 12, has to volunteer to take the place of her twelve-year-old sister prim after prim's name is called forth to become the 23rd member to compete in the 74th hunger games, she promises to prim that she will win! katniss doesn't believe she's coming out alive - but she's not going down without a fight.

because district 12 is so poor, katniss has been close to death many times from starvation but she's made it through it. but this is a different kind of close to death; this katniss doesn't know if she can survive.

she doesn't want to hurt, or kill anyone but when it comes down to it katniss' instinct is to survive. but when she starts to have confusing feelings about the boy from her district who is also her fellow contender, things get worse, and then she teams up with the girl from district 11 and only one person can survive. but who will it be? will her feelings get the better of her? will she let someone else win so they don't have to die? if katniss is going to win she's going to have to be brutal. she's going to have to kill!

the answer would be c

they are direct opposites. they can both be corrupted. they are inseparable.