Oliver Twist exercises pag 339

1. We can understand that Oliver was nine years old, a pale, thin child, diminutive in stature, small in circumference and he had a good robust spirit. He lived in an establishment.

2. I think “the establishment” is an institution where poor people lived and worked.

Comprehension

1. The children were in a room, in which they had meals. It was a large stone hall with a cointainer for boiling food at one end. The children were assisted by one or two women; these women served  a large spoon of food made by boiling oats with water o milk to children.

2. The children after they had finished to eat, they washed their bowls. But it wasn’t necessary because children eat all part of their meal and their bowls were clean. The children had generally excellent appetites because they were starved.

3. the children suffered for long time the tortures of starvation and they decided that Oliver asked to master another bowl of food.

Interpretation

1. I’m irritated for the behavior of the master and the insensitivity for children that were starved for a long time of lack of food.

2. Examples of contrasts: lines 3-5 “…a pale thin child…diminutive in stature…a good robust spirit”, hyperbole: lines 47-50 “The master was fat..the assistants were paralysed with wonder; the boys with fear”, repetitions: lines 60-63 …Oliver Twist asked for more! …For more said Mr. Limbkins…asked for more..” That boy will be hung…I know that boy will be hung”.

3. The writer symphatized with the boys because they were maltreat.

4. Dickens used third person narrator.

5. The narrator was characterized to the anonymity, to present the hard reality of some social classes of the contemporaneous time with Dickens.

6. The aim of the writer was to present the reality and the problems of his society, the things that nobody would see.