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The Hardships Of Miners In Germinal By Emile Zola

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1. In “Germinal” Emile Zola portrays the difficulties and hardships of the miners in a way that makes the reader pity them. For the conditions in 19th century mines were unfit and unhealthy for labor workers as well as fatal sometimes. Although while reading you find Zola sympathy is contradicted and double sided for in the book it tries to explain the difference in socialism and political ideas and how they bring conflicts. For both sides of French society. While miners and their families worked in horrible conditions it was the lack of education that brought them there and unlike other social classes miner’s had no problem with women working if it benefited the family financially Zola states “ men worried more about finding work for their

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