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Ceclilia (Sissy) is taken in by Thomas Gradgrind after her father, a clown in the circus, disappears. Her character is creative and sensitive which provides for a strong contrast to the rest of the Gradgrind family. Dickens speaks through this character while she is at school, questioning everything that is taught. Her questions and messages attack the rationale of the industrial and calculating education and is therefore considered ridiculous. Eventually she is even thrown out of the school. Dickens is trying to get the reader to understand that in our society, we shun people that have different ideas but it is really through those different ideas that truth can be found. |
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