HT: Appreciation

"This country, gradually softening toward the neighbourhood of Mr Bounderby's retreat, there mellowed into a rustic landscape, golden with heath, and snowy with hawthorn in the spring of the year, and tremulous with leaves and their shadows all the summer time" (164). Dickens is able to write so fluidly that these words seem to roll off the tongue. By using words like "gradually softening", and "mellowed" Dickens smoothly transitions into describing the scenery. There are also a few contrasting elements in this quote that add to its beauty. Those include the comparison of seasons "snowy", "spring", "shadow" and "summer", but Dickens does not made an argument defending any of these seasons or concepts but instead is able to wind them together to create and even more beautiful description.