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1. The children are in the dining room of an orphan school. They are eating and they try to have more food.
2. they try to have more food: they are hungry because they always have little ration of food
3. After they have finished eating Oliver and other children ask for more food
4. The master "aimed a blow at Oliver's head with the ladle and he shrieked aloud for the beadle" and the beadle said that the boy will be hung
Interpretation
1.Findexamples of contrasts
- fat master and hungry children
Find examples of hyperbole
- "as if they could have devoured the very bricks of which it was composed"
- "he was afraid he might some night happen to eat the boy we slept next to him"
Find examples of repetitions
- "that boy will be hung"
2. The author sympathizes with the boys because the he rebels against the master.
3. third person omniscient narrator
4. The third person omniscient narrator is characterized by the knowledge of all about his characters and their inner lives. Indeed characters are presented through their physical description and their social condition.