Exercise about Charl Dikens ' Oliver Twist Chapter 2

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Comprehension

• the children are in a dining hall in which they are eating

• the children after finishing eating their food they want to receive some more food. They aren't happy with their food because they are hungry.

• at the end of the dinner to receive more soup the children do a meeting to decide what child that evening should have been ask for more, and it fell to Oliver.

• The reaction of master and board is that : “that boy will be hung”

   

Interpretation

• after reading story I'm irritate because I know that this event happen also now

• reading the chapter the intelligent reader could notice some hyperbole ( that boy will be hung ), the repetition of the word more, the use of the opposition to underline the opposition between something bed and something well. By this element the reader uderstand that the author sympathize with the children.

• The narrator was a third person omniscient intruding narrator.