It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable [unending] serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. it had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. –hard times, charles dickens, 1854 which statement best explains the main idea of this passage from hard times?
a) industrialization has made people anxious and afraid.
b) industrialization has made life extremely boring and routine.
c) industrialization has opened up the world for the people of england.
d) industrialization has greatly improved the manufacturing process.