... through the opening description of the town. The colors of the town are black and red - red brick covered in black ash from the factories, which even infected the river to bleed these colors combined: It was a town of red brick, or brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as the matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage ... imagine that he would be machine-like in not just his responses, but in every aspect of life. His robotic actions directly contrast with those of Sissy's in the classroom. Dickens has cr...

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