COMPREHENSION

- The children are in a large stone room and they are eating.

- The children need more food, so after the dinner there was a council and children decided who could go to master.

- Oliver Twist was selected to go to master to ask him more food.

- Master, beadle and board were very surprised but also disgusted and they wanted kill him.

INTERPRETATION

- I’m surprised about the reaction of people, but I know it is normal because some years ago the roules are foundamental and respect was necessary. However the reaction of people was overdone!

- The term “splashes of gruel” is in contrast with “excellent appetites”, because they have opposite meanings.

- “…at last they got so voracious and wild…” is an exxageration because children are described like animals!

- He uses a lots of time the term “wild” and “angry” to describe the fame of poor children and to underline the bad conditions where they live.

- The narrator seems to be agree with board, because he repetes more times that Oliver Twist should be killed.

- There is a third omniscent narrator because at the end of the text he reveals to know the ending of Oliver Twist’s story but he prefers to not tell it.