Chapter 2-resumé af Hard Times

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1. Thomas Gradgrind demands that Sissy Jupe use Cecilia as her name and describe her father through approved occupations.
2. Sissy cannot define a horse, but Bitzer supplies a detailed list of physical facts.
3. A government official rejects horse wallpaper and flowered carpets because their pictures do not match literal reality.
4. Sissy explains her love of flowers, prompting both men to forbid imagination and insist on facts.
5. Mr. M’Choakumchild begins his lesson, while the narrator questions whether his extensive training equips him to teach children.

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The command makes the lesson’s aim explicit. Sissy’s harmless enjoyment of pictured flowers becomes grounds for forbidding imagination itself.

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