EXERCISES FROM PAGE 12 AND 13

EXERCISE 1.

Oliver Twist and his companions were very hungry. One of his companions said that he was too hungry and he might eat one of them while they were sleeping. So they decided to ask more food to the their master and raffled Oliver to do it. During the dinner, Oliver went to his master, Mr. Bumble, saying that he wanted some more supper, and his master, angry about the request, ran screaming to his superior: Mr. Limbkins.

EXERCISE 2.

1. The aspects that strike me as being taken from real life are the setting of the story (a workhouse) and children's condition of life because in Victorian Age it was more spread.

2. The writer sides with Oliver Twist and his companions because he wants to denounce the ill-treatment in the workhouses and the difficult conditions of hygiene and health of children. He did it to render the idea of the terrible condition of life of the lowest social class of the time.

3. Dickens' main criticism is made on the ill-treatment of the age and the inhuman conditions in which the lowest class was subjected in particular children.

4. The possibility the possibility that the reader will form a different opinion can be, because every reader can think with his head. But it is difficult because the writer is very careful to put into result the terrible life of poor children of the workhouse, rendering ridiculous the villains of the story and underlining the inhuman condition of life.

    

EXERCISE 3.

a. "...the boys whispered each other..."

"...they winked at Oliver..."

"...neighbours nudged him."

b. Dickens describes the general reaction after Oliver' s request using the juxtaposition (or mixes) of sad and comic details and with the ridiculing of what he intends to criticizes by repeating words and phrases: he explain the same concept more that once, but using different words.

c. Dickens introduces a tragic aspect of real life in his novel: the sentence "That boy will be hung [...] I know that boy will be hung" adds an exaggerated judge about an innocent request and it negative connotes people who exclaimed its. Dickens uses a tragic and exaggerated term to affect his idea about childrens' situation.