In the industrial city of Coketown, Josiah Bounderby is a rich and
fairly obnoxious factory owner and banker. He loves to tell everyone he
meets about how he grew up in the gutter, abused by a drunken
grandmother. He is friends with Thomas Gradgrind, a rich politician and
an education reformer in whose school students only learn about facts.
Gradgrind's own children, Tom and Louisa, also grow up in this system.
The kids are forbidden to be creative or imaginative or to have too many
feelings. Gradgrind is basically trying to make kids into robots, with
predictably bad results. When a traveling circus show comes to
Coketown, one of the clowns abandons his daughter, Sissy Jupe, there.
Gradgrind takes her in as a servant. She is a natural, happy, not
particularly robotic girl, and his system does not seem to make too much
of a dent in her good nature.
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