EXERCISES FROM PAGE 14 AND 16

EXERCISE 1.

1) The children had porridge for breakfast.

2) They go to school.

3) They clean windows, weed the garden, rub the teacher's horse and draw water up.

4) They listen to the stories taken from antiquated spelling books.

5) At one o'clock they have porridge for lunch.

EXERCISE 2.

1. The children were exploited to clean and to do the humblest and hardest works. They are different from students of ordinary school because while such children are supposed to study and to learn to read, to write and to calculate, on the contrary, Victorian students had to work as servant for the "teacher".

   In the text the writer focused his attention on the humiliations that such children had to prove and would to make the reader reflect on the rule and the aim of education.

    

2. - Mr Squeers defines his method "practical mode of teaching" and "the regular education system".

   - The aim of such method is to teach grammar without using books.

   - Mr Squeers tries to explain to Nicholas his method because he wants that everyone praise him for his work and good method. He doesn't have a good opinion and he is in hatred with his nephew but he wants him to estimate him. Therefore he want also to prove to him that is way of acting is the right one.

    

3. Mr Squeers' wife and his son reflects his personality. His son is the mirror for the father's wickedness and lack of feeling and both (wife and son) they reflects Mr Squeers' feeling of superiority.

   To prove such common qualities between Mr Squeers and Mrs S. and their son, there are their actions. Mrs S. co-operated with his husband without help the children, where is her maternal instinct? The son doesn't help the children but he managed to make worse their life condition.

    

4. No, it doesn't come out at all because it is hidden in his answers to his uncle questions.

    

EXERCISE 3.

a. -"as if he had a perfect apprehension of what was inside all the books"

-"Obedient to his summons".

b. Mr Squeers is a flat character because the reader is not able to know the every aspect of him.

c. The narrator is a third person omniscient intrusive narrator.

She tells facts using the third person, he knows feelings, emotions, thoughts, being of every character and, last but not list, he use to stop the narration to provide the reader of his considerations. ("As if he had a perfect....books").