Oliver Twist Notes
Chapter 1
• Oliver born in a workhouse
• Mother dies in childbirth
• Not wearing a wedding ring
Chapter 2
• Sent to juvenile workhouse
• Mrs. Mann (overseer) gets $ per child; keeps $ and lets kids go hungry
• Oliver ages out of workhouse; Mr. Bumble takes him to the adult workhouse
• Oliver loses bet and asks foe more food at dinner; shocks adults so much that they offer 5 pounds to whoever will take him off their hands
Chapter 3
• Mr. Gamfield, chimney sweep, tries to take Oliver as his apprentice
• Judge sees Oliver’s pale face, asks him if he wants to be Gamfield’s apprentice
• Oliver says no; apprenticeship is denied
Chapter 4
• Oliver becomes Mr. Sowerberry’s (undertaker) apprentice
• Mrs. Sowerberry hates him, gives him table scraps and makes fun of his mother
Chapter 5
• Oliver helps out at a burial
• Doesn’t like it
• Mr. Bumble beats boys playing in cemetery
• We learn about the awful position of the poor to help themselves
Chapter 6
• Measles kill a lot of people, Oliver does more “undertaking”
• Sowerberry gives Oliver nice clothes to participate in service, upsets Claypool
• Oliver attacks Noah for insulting his mother
Chapter 7
• Charlotte and Mrs. Sowerberry Beat Oliver and lock him in the cellar; Noah makes up story about Oliver attacking him to get him in trouble
• Sowerberry beats up Oliver and puts him back in cellar
• Oliver runs away next morning
• Sees boy named Dick in workhouse yard; Dick promises not to tell anyone about Oliver running away (don’t know if this will become important later on???)
Chapter 8
• Oliver walks to London
• Meets boy named Jack Dawkins, called Artful Dodger, who offers place to stay in London
• Oliver goes with him, house is in ...
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...5 pounds from Monks for her info
• She tells Monks everything and gives him the golden locket that Old Sally had stole form Oliver’s mother
• Inside the locket are two pieces of hair and a ring with the name Agnes on it; Monks drops the locket in the river
Chapter 39
• Sykes catches a fever, Nancy helps him recover
• Sykes asks Fagin for $; Both him and Nancy go to get the cash when Monks shows up at Fagin’s and asks to talk with Fagin privately
• Nancy eavesdrops
• Fagin pays Nancy, who runs to Sikes’ a bit startled
• Nancy travels to the Maylie’s to talk to Mrs. Maylie
Chapter 40
• Nancy tells Rose that Fagin is Oliver’s brother and that Monks is trying to secure the family inheritance; Monks wants to kill oliver but isn’t willing to risk getting caught
• Rose wants to help Nancy have a better life, but she says no because she is attatched to Sikes
Using Brett as the protagonist, Monk opens the novel with a prologue that describes Brett as delinquent and confused teenager who refuses to take responsibility for his own actions. His intolerance leads him to committing a crime - breaking him into a bottle shop; this explains why he is in the institution called the "farm", which can be described as a "half-way house" with between no security and maximum security. This institution accommodates troubled teenagers, in which it is their second chance to become better individuals. Throughout the novel Brett is symbolized as the troubled teenager who overcomes his ignorance.
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The two pair up and proceed up north, to where they figure they will make their keep. Along the way, the two meet up with a few seasoned veteran fishermen. Among them are Red Haliday, and Tom Moore, who together share the duties of the Falaise. The four men quickly become friends and agree to meet up again once they reach Pendennis Island.
As I read the Glass Castle, the way Rose Mary behaves, thinks and feels vary greatly and differently throughout the memoir. The immediate question that pops up in my mind is to ask whether Rose Mary carries some sort of mental illness. Fortunately, given the hints and traits that are relevant to why Rose Mary lives like that in the memoir, we, the readers, are able to make some diagnosis and assumptions on the kind of mental illness she may carry. To illustrate, one distinctive example is when Rose Mary blames Jeannette for having the idea to accept welfare. “Once you go on welfare, it changes you. Even if you get off welfare, you never escape the stigma that you were a charity case.” (188). In my opinion, Rose Mary is being nonsense and contractive in her criticism, because of Rose Mary’s resistances to work and to accept welfare, it often causes a severe food shortage within the family that all four little children have to find food from trash cans or move on with hunger, which could lead to a state of insufficient diet. More importantly, having welfare as a way to solve food shortage, it can certainly improve those young Walls children’s poor nutrition and maintain their healthy diet, but Rose Mary turns it down because she thinks it is a shame to accept welfare despite their children are suffering from starvation. Another example will be when Rose Mary abandons all of her school work for no reason. “One morning toward the end of the school year, Mom had a complete meltdown. She was supposed to write up evaluations of her students’ progress, but she’d spent every free minute painting, and now the deadline was on her and the evaluations were unwritten” (207). This is one of the moments when Rose Mary shifts all of her attentio...
Personalities in the novels became cut off physically or spiritually from human companionship. Oliver suffers from a sense of estrangement. He fears being abandoned by foster parents and friends, even though the relationships are not healthy for him.
Oliver, he realized that he was nothing more than a shipping clerk. He understood that being a
Plot: The kids are getting on the bus to go home after another ordinary day at high school. They noticed they had a substitute bus driver. He missed a couple of stops so Bruce volunteered to show him the way. When only the five kids who live on Valley Gardens are left, the bus driver drives past their subdivision without stopping. The kids complain and he tells them to shut up. The bus pulls off to the side of the road next to a waiting car. He orders them to get off the bus and into the car. By this time the kids realized they were being kidnapped. A woman is in the car, whose name is Rita. She drives them to a cabin about two hours away. When they arrive, the kids are fed stew. The boys were sent...
Spunk uses the killing of Joe as a warning. He is showing everyone else that he gets what he wants at any cost. After killing Joe, Spunk goes on to comfort Lena, and no one dares to stop him. They were all afraid of what could happen if someone else tries to stand between Spunk and Lena. Joe thought he was going to kill Spunk and get his wife back, but Spunk ends up killing him instead. Another example of irony is when Spunk claims he was pushed onto the large blade by Joe, “He says it was Joe he done sneaked back from hell” (Meyer 711). After killing Joe and stealing his wife, Spunk thinks he is untouchable, but everything takes a twisted turn when a mysterious black bobcat comes from out of the nowhere and scares Spunk. Spunk is terrified of the bob cat, and he starts to believe that the bob cat is Joe looking for
and the gardener. The only time that the town would see him was when her went to the
she is able to meet her twin sisters that have been missing from her life for over 30 years.
Dick presents our main character, Commissioner John Anderton, as the balding, pot-bellied founder of a revolutionary new crime detection system who's been showing his years for longer than he'd care to remember. In the short story, he has just acquired a new assistant, Ed Witwer, and fears being replaced by the younger man. In the beginning, Anderton is portrayed as slightly insecure about his job (to the point of near paranoia of being set-up), as well as his importance to society, though by the e...
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...ng to Brad about not coming out and they start beating him up. Charlie comes in to defend Patrick and knocks one of the people out. The group starts talking to him again since he expiated for kissing Sam by saving Patrick’s life.
Charles Dickens shows notable amounts of originality and morality in his novels, making him one of the most renowned novelists of the Victorian Era and immortalizing him through his great novels and short stories. One of the reasons his work has been so popular is because his novels reflect the issues of the Victorian era, such as the great indifference of many Victorians to the plight of the poor. The reformation of the Poor Law 1834 brings even more unavoidable problems to the poor. The Poor Law of 1834 allows the poor to receive public assistance only through established workhouses, causing those in debt to be sent to prison. Unable to pay debts, new levels of poverty are created. Because of personal childhood experiences with debt, poverty, and child labor, Dickens recognizes these issues with a sympathetic yet critical eye. Dickens notices that England's politicians and people of the upper class try to solve the growing problem of poverty through the Poor Laws and what they presume to be charitable causes, but Dickens knows that these things will not be successful; in fact they are often inhumane. Dickens' view of poverty and the abuse of the poor
An orphan named Oliver Twist is forced into robbery, but with the help of kind friends, he escapes into a better future. Oliver Twist, another famous book from Charles Dickens, portrays a young boy named Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse, brought up in a child farm, and returns to the workhouse. There, he almost starves to death, but then he is brought to Mr. Sowerberry; but he escapes because he is mistreated, and walks to London, where he meets Fagin. Fagin gives him a place to stay and food, but he also teaches Oliver how to steal. When other people see Oliver running, they think he’s a thief and brings him to jail. Mr. Brownlow and Mrs. Bedwin notice that Oliver isn’t that kind of person, and house him kindly. When Oliver finally goes out with expensive books and clothing, Fagin takes him back, for fear that he will tell. Sikes, a burglary partner with Fagin, forces Oliver to go and help them steal, but the owner of the house shoots Oliver in the arm. Sikes runs away without him, so Oliver goes back to the house, and surprisingly, the owners of that house, Rose Maylie, her family, and others, treat him kindly because he did it against his will. With his new patrons, he again meets Mr. Brownlow, who had formed a bad opinion of Oliver after he left so abruptly. Later, Nancy, who works for Fagin, meets Rose and tells them what she knows about Oliver’s past. Later, she gets killed by Sikes for telling them, and he is haunted by this murder. Dialect and different types of characters make Oliver Twist all in all more interesting and striking to read.