The Industrial Revolution And Urbanization - 2357 Words

BEFORE READING THE NOVEL Predict Taking into consideration what you currently know (it may only be a little) about this time period, how do you think the historical events may affect the novel? Explain your thinking. I think the historical events will affect the novel greatly. One way the historical events may affect the novel is it may change the whole story. The industrial revolution was when there were major changes in agriculture, transportation, and manufacturing. Urbanization was when there was when the population of people increased in cities and towns rather than in rural areas. So in the book the Industrial Revolution and Urbanization would affect the novel greatly by changing the setting and plot of the whole book. WHILE†¦show more content†¦Context, from the book: The sum, you will naturally infer, must have been very large not to have been exhausted in supporting three generations of not doing anything. Number/Word/Page: 2. Perpetuity, page 6 Definition in your own words: something that lasts forever or for a long time. Context, from the book: I shall only stop now to say that interest on investments was a species of tax in for a long time upon the product of those engages in industry which a person possessing or inheriting money money was able to levy. Number/Word/Page: 3. Insatiable, page 35 Definition in your own words: a desire not possible to satisfy Context, from the book: They believed that the great corporations were preparing for them the yoke of a baser servitude than had ever been imposed on the race, servitude not to men but to soulless machines incapable of any motive but not able to satisfy greed. Number/Word/Page: 4. Arduousness, page 44 Definition in your own words: requiring much energy Context, from the book: This is done by making the hours of labor in different trades to differ according to their large amount of energy. Number/Word/Page: 5.Voluptuous, page 91 Definition in your own words: a delight or pleasure to the senses Context, from the book: a band of nautch girls, round-limbed and luscious-lipped, danced with pleasurable grace to the music of brazen and stringed instruments. Number/Word/Page: