In the present text, I am going to analyze an extract from the novel Oliver Twist, written in the first period of the Nineteenth century.
Its title is: Oliver wants some more. The first thing that may come into one's mind is: what does Oliver want? We understand that he is the main character, but we do not know anything about him.
Therefore we should go on reading.
The text is in a prose form and is structured in three content parts, the first with a descriptive technique in which prevails the telling technique, and then there's a turning point in the story-line which is narrated through the showing technique.
In fact, the first part shows the mealtime in workhouses, in this case, the dining hall was for the younger boys. The reader can experience it, through vivid descriptions, the poor condition of the orphans. They are hungry and suffer from malnutrition, it is clear from the use of lots of words belonging to the semantic field of food, cooking tools, and starvation. over more by the behavior of the boys, it is highlighted the need of eating something more, because: they have their meals quickly and voraciously.

Dickens did not forget to put some irony to convey the ideal reader, probably an upper-class reader, the miserable situation in these buildings and criticize the Vitorian policy. An example is: the boy's bowls and spoons did not have to be washed because the boys polished them by food until they shone.
The narration becomes more tragic when a boy confessed the food was not enough, so in order to not fall into cannibalism they should have had some more food.
It turns out that Oliver Twist had to ask for some extra food. When the mealtime arrives, all the boys are waiting for Oliver to do it, they are impatient and excited, it is noticeable from the winks, the nudges, and the whispers. Oliver is unaware, he is pushed by the instinct so he asks the master some extra food.
At this point starts a direct form of speech, followed by the master's characterization; he is the opposite of Oliver and the others, he is fat ad healthy. He is astonished, and asks Oliver to repeat as if he wanted to mean:”let's see if you have the courage”.Oliver repeats it and is hit by the ladle.
Going on reading, the scene changes newly and it is set in a room where a board of gentlemen was reunited, it is interrupted by the presence of Mr. Bumblee ( well characterized by his name which means incompetent, and may remind to the insect bumblebee).
He claims that Oliver Twist asked for more, which for the reader is hilarious, and for the people there seems tragic, they are horrified.
It is difficult to understand their behavior, maybe because they follow the church doctrines of humility and austerity, so the abundance is not contemplated. They are not interested in the living condition of the poor boys, but only in money.
It happens again: it is said to repeat the phrase as if to underline its seriousness.
A gentleman sentences a profecy, he said Oliver would have been hung, as if what he did was something criminal.
Finally, in my opinion, Oliver was considered dangerous maybe because could influence the other boys and rebel and bring the gentlemen to collapse.