OLIVER TWIST

Considering the title of the extract, one could expect it to be about someone who's poor and he's asking for something more to survive or about someone who's already got enough but he wants even more. At a first sight, the fact that the character named in the title "wants some more" can make the reader think it is a typical childish action, so Oliver Twist could be a child.

Having the extract read, the structure is a narrative and linear one. There are mainly narrative sequences and little descriptions, while dialogues are prevalent in the second half.The narration in the first half is more fluid, while in the second one it is built on short sentences and characters' dialogues.

For what concerns content the extract is about a group of children receiving their daily meal in a workhouse. So it is a typical situation which reflects the poor living conditions of the working class during the Industrial Revolution. In particular, while the first half of the text is based on making the reader perceive poverty, the second one is focused on Oliver Twist, who had already appeared in the title. Oliver Twist is brought by his mates to ask for more food, causing bad reactions among his "superiors".

The main character in the first part is "the master", the one who gives the children their meal, and his character mainly comes to life thanks to the fear the children express when they have to decide whwill ask for something more: the young men are afraid of him, but they're starving and they are ready to do everything to eat. Oliver Twist is not described physically and the only features of him the reader gets are that he's desperate, hungry and reckless, just like almost every other child. In the last part the "gentleman" appears to be a rude, selfish and despotic man, the typical image of utilitarian mentality held by capitalists during the Industrial Revolution.

Considering the narrative aspect, the narrator is an omniscent third person one who does't allow the reader to have personal judgements on the characters. Telling and showing are both present. The vocabulary used mainly appeals to the semantic field of poverty, hunger, starvation. Considering the use of language, it is fluid and not heavy or excessive; it appeals to sense impressions since the precise descriptions of places and actions aim to make the reader imagine the scene and the atmosphere. 

The overall effect the extract arouses into the reader is a sort of anguish which is created through the situation descripted: poor children are exploited and they don't even have enough food to survive. The reader is brought to take the defense of th children and to perceive the master and the gentlemen as the bad ones who live on the children's shoulder.

In conclusion, the ideal reader may be a teenager who wants to read an interesting novel and who wants to have an idea of how the industrial society could really be during the Victorian age.