Page 12 exercise 1

Oliver Twist lived in a workhouse with other companions. Everybody was hungry so they decided that a guy, at the evening after, should have asked more gruel.

The guy was Oliver Twist and when everybody was in the eating-house, after having eaten gruel Oliver asked more supper in front of the master.

 The master was very angry and called the board and explained them what happened before and what Oliver Twist asked.

There were a general surprise and Mr. Limbkins affirmed the guy would be hung.

Page 13 exercise 2

•a)     some aspects seemed as being taken from real life for example children's exploitation, tortures and malnutrition.

•b)     I think the reader shares the point of view of the children because he uses two different techniques to render the two groups of characters: he uses pathos to describe the group of children and this implies a partial identification while the grotesque, used to describe the group of adults provide achieved the bad aspects of the characters who became over villainous and cruelly repressive. In addition considering the personal life-experience of the writer, I think ha sides with the children.

•c)      I think the biggest target of Dickens' criticism is the Industrial society which exploits men, women and children to produce what is useful.

•d)     No, he cant. The reader is guided by a 3^rd person intrusive omniscient narrator which made up the characters and gave judgments.

Page 13 exercise 3

•a)     in spite of the tragic situation an aspect seems to be humorous: the big guy is worried he could eat the boy who slept next him during the night so hungry is he.

•b)     I think the reader used the hyperbole to render characters' reactions.

•c)      Juxtaposition: "child as he was and desperate with hungry" and "the master was a fat, healthy man"

Hyperbole: "Oliver Twist has asked for more. Horror was depicted on every countenance"

Ridiculization: "Oliver Twist has asked for more. For more! Do I understand that he asked for more, after he had eaten the supper allotted by the dietary?"