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Social Norms In Hard Times

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In the book hard times the conflict was how schools try to conform kids to society instead of individuality and try to make them into a mass of just fact machines basically the conflict here adds to the story because to show readers it's ok to be different and not just follow what people say and be different from society because creativity is very important without it we wouldn't have art and music if we all followed social norms we would just be mindless drones. Mr. gradgrind the teacher wants to teach the kids pure facts and just have them be as compliant as possible so they just follow directions right off the bat like one kid talked about having flowers on the wall or floor and gradgrind said it was basically im possible cause flowers

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