Oliver wants some more

In the track 'Oliver wants some more', Dickens shows us the cruel conditions of children who were working in Workhuases. The track can be divided into three parts:

• Introduction;
• The request for Oliver;
• The reaction of the adults and the intervention of the Master.

In the first part we note that children, gathered in groups (to retrieve groups of workers who gathered to decide) looking for someone willing to ask for more food to cook. Children are grateful for lunch and for someone to take care of them, but they are also hungry.

The choice falls on Oliver, the protagonist of the story (a clear choice of fate -and God, of course-, as the Puritan idea of predestination) which makes the request to the cook. It is curious to note that despite the grotesque eating is little, there are three people to serve: the cook, the assistant and the master.

In the second part Oliver, made the request, see the incredulous reaction of the cook. The intervention of the Master, rich bourgeois (which creates an alibi for the middle class: he helps people-despite the terrible conditions of life-), manages to fix the situation. Note in this case, the contrast between the white clothes of the master and the tattered rags of Oliver.

Oliver, in the end, will be expelled from workhauses and sold to a child trafficker.