Comprehension

1.The
children are in a large stone hall where they are receiving their daily meal.

2.After
finishing their eating the children are still hungry because they have eaten
just a couple of spoons so they are unsatisfied and want more food.

3.
Children decide to ask for some more food, so Oliver courageously goes to the
master Mr Bumble and asks to be served again.

4.The reactions are different:
the master is afraid and overhang Oliver, the beadle is calm and the board
looks the scene staying motionless behind a table.

Interpretation

1.I am fascinated to the
gesture of Oliver for his courage and determination and because he unexpectedly
demonstrates a strong personality going against the master.

2.The author sympathized the
boys because he is clearly against the poor condition of the children who live
in the workhouses. Moreover is known that Dickens was against the
industrialization and the lower middle class condition.

3.Dickens uses a third person
omniscient narrator.

4.With this type of narrator
the author gives his opinion about the facts and situation so the reader is
influenced by his point of view and he can not judge the facts on his own.

5.The author's aim is to
criticize the industrial society and the bad condition in which many people
belonging to the working class lived.