In hard times, charles dickens’s purpose in including sissy in the selection is to show that a) the other children in the class view sissy as inferior to them b) factual knowledge and logical reasoning are superior to fantasy c) students with feeling and imagination have no place in this educational system d) sissy is a rare exception among students in mr. gradgrind’s school

The school system emphasized facts, mathematics and analysis, considering this model as the ideal, not really open for sensitivity and flexibility.  For Dickens, imagination was very important and he didn't think material facts should limit people's lives. At the end, when the rigid philosophy style of facts fails, Sissy teaches them how to live by her values and beliefs.

C

c) students with feeling and imagination have no place in this educational system

the answer is:

b) to show the progression of inventions that took place in the bicycling industry.

hope it !

in   ¨and yet the books¨   by czelaw miloz the tone is positive since it tells us that when we touch a book, it starts to live and the perspective is in the third person and turns once into the first person. in "the rhinoceros" by eugene ionesco the tone is illogical and absurd   and the perspective is in the third person since it is a play.