The text entitled Oliver
wants some more! is an extract taken from the real  Oliver
Twist(1837-1838) written by
Charles Dickens especially to make the readers aware of the problem
of workhouses.

Right
from the start the intelligent reader can perceive the general
condition of children, a very poor condition: adjectives used to
described Oliver can all be connected to his weak condition, he is
pale, thin, diminutive in stature and small in circumference.
Oliver's problem is paradigmatic for all children so the reader can
understand that the main part of the children are pale and thin;
Charles Dickens focused his attention on one particular
contradiction: Oliver's weakness of body and the strength of his
spirit.

This
was the great period of the Industrial Revolution, a very important
event, but even if it made grow profits and money on the other hand a
general sense of well-being was still a mirage; it's possible to
understand that we are in the revolution period because children work
in a coal cellar and the coal was the main symbol of
industrialization(steam engine of factories doesn't work without
coal).

Going
on with the extract, when the children had their miserable meal
consisting of a little bowl of  gruel, there is the contrast between
the poor quantity of food and the width of that large stone hall;
during the meal throughout an onomatopoeic(splashes) and climatic use
of language, and an indirect use of rhetoric language the English
novelist created the pathos in that scene of the story.

Main
character's hunger is so powerful that Oliver was desperate, in fact
he wasn't afraid even to go to the master and to ask for some more
gruel. Master's reaction was of surprise, gazing in astonishment:
looking at Oliver's request from another point of view it can be
considered only like a child who is still hungry, but the gravity of
that act in that particular moment made the reader consider the child
as a "rebel", who deserved to be hung.