Oliver wants some more

This is an extract taken from the II chapter of the novel “Oliver Twist” written by Charles Dickens.
The text can be divided into 3 parts: the introduction, the fact and the reaction.
The condition of Oliver and his friends is described in the introduction; they are obliged to suffer the tortures if slaw starvation for three months. A boy threatened to eat the boy sleeping next to him. A council was held and Oliver asked for more food.
The moment of the dinner is described in the second part. Each character, his role and Oliver’s feeling are also described in this part. Oliver is characterized as he was desperate with hunger and reckless with misery.
At last the reaction is made by the shock caused by the request: it paralysed the assistants with wonder and the boys with fear. At the end the director of the workhouse decided to offer a reward of 5 pound to anybody who want Oliver.
Dickens describes the place where the boys staid as a very poor and cold room; moreover Dickens describes the condition of the boys. They are hungered children, obligated to suffer and they got so voracious and wild. Dickens wants to show to the reader the terrible condition in which poor children live in workhouses.

The definition of a horse

This is an extract taken from the II chapter of the novel “Murdering the Innocents”.
The text can be divided into 3 parts: the introduction, the fact and the consequence.
In the introduction Dickens describes Thomas Gradgrind and his personality. He is a rigid man who encourages memorization of facts without acquiring true knowledge.
In the second part Mr. Gradgrind asks to Sissy to describe a horse, but she is unable to define it because her definition would be personal experience. In fact she has grown up around horses but she can’t say a definition of that animal because she is too bound to the horse that the definition including personal opinion is of no value in Gradgrind’s system.
The consequence is that Bitzer can provide an accurate definition of the physical attributes of a horse. He gives an objective definition as Gradgrind wants.
Dickens wants to show to the reader that childer are victims of the system of Mr. Gradgrind: it has no tolerance of imagination, making children as machines because the system remove them their individuality.