Comprehension

• children
  are all in a very big stone hall, in which they eat a very poor meal
  everyday; they eat thin porridge

  
  

• it is a
  so poor meal that when the children finish to eat, they are still
  starving and that they eat their porringer with the spoon

  
  

• even if
  the master is a fat healthy man, he becomes very pale pale and after
  he has asked to repeat to Oliver his request, he immediately calls
  the beadle who completely agrees with the master and he says that
  Oliver will be hung; the boars is astonished too

  
  

Interpretation

• my
  reaction is totally irritated because food is probably the most
  important aspect of physical life

  
  

• it's
  a 3^rd
  person omniscient narrator
  

  
  

• Charles
  Dickens want to make the readers aware of poor children's condition
  in workhouses