Agostinho Basílio Maputa

Literal Analysis of Oliver Twist

(Licenciatura em Inglês)

Universidade Rovuma

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 Agostinho Basílio Maputa

Literal Analysis of Oliver Twist

(Licenciatura em Inglês)

The work is done in Literature II, to

be submited to Department of
Language Science Communication
and Arts for evaluation purposes,,
by: Ms: Helder Chacate

Universidade Rovuma

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Introduction

The present work, we are going to accompany the life of Oliver an orphan born in England, the
story points out inequalities and how society did not care about people abandoned in extreme
poverty. In which we are going to do Literal Analysis of Oliver Twist

The story is very exciting, since Oliver Twist is an orphan living in the asylum of London's Poor
and goes through many terrible moments as a child.

The work basically tells the story of the miserable life of the protagonist Oliver Twist, who had
his mother dead at birth and lived in hand, unable to adapt to any place for constant bad deals. It's
a story of touching life, and some analysis in this work

However, I found a story full of turnaround and that shows the reality of how the children who
were not rich suffered at that time. A reality that has not changed much from here to many
countries.

Therefore, life can give you a second chance to be happy nothing is impossible for those who
fight for life whoever revenge can be harmed.

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The brief story of Oliver Twist and literal analysis

“The story begins in the workhouse where a boy is born. His mother dies soon after the birth and
the child is named Oliver Twist. The first nine years of his life are spent in the terrible conditions
of cold and hunger that prevailed in the workhouse. Then one day Oliver asks for some more
food at dinner time and the enraged Mr Bumble pays for Oliver to be taken away by a local
undertaker, Mr Sowerberry. Oliver suffers further mistreatment at the hands of Noah Claypole,
an employee, and Mrs Sowerberry. After suffering physical and mental abuse, he decides to run
away to London “Charles

Analyzing this passage, first we should know, why did his mother start walking around knowing
that she is in a tired state? Alone without anyone to company her, what makes her to leave from
another place in a tired state? I think that, we should know the motive that makes her to walk
around until to arrive the place where the young Oliver twist was born.

However, the story should tell us, the starting point, not only to say that she was women walking
in a tired state, they could tell us the place where the women come from and how did she got
pregnant, who is the father of Oliver twist, they could show motive what makes her to leave to
other difference place. I came to discover that, Oliver has father, but in my point view they could
not show it in the end, it could be in the beginning

On the other hand, the young Oliver twist has reason to complain about food even knowing that
he is a low class or a worker, does not make sense to work without eating well, how do they
could work without be well in wealth. Going beyond, they could not call the young Oliver
orphan, because he was children, and he does not know what does it mean, they could not say
those expressions related to his mother in front of him, because even saying those expressions the
boy Oliver didn’t know who was his mother. So we cannot say this kind of things in front of
children’s, we must consider good ages to say things like that. Therefore, he runs from different
place trying to look for a better place and better life, because none likes to be treated bad, even
though he didn’t achieve.

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The passage that I think they could change is that, when Oliver asks for some more food at
dinner and he pays it with his body, Oliver is punched and suffers further mistreatment which is
not good and it can affect us negatively because it is physical and mental abuse what happened
with him.

Even knowing that the young boy has good attitude, he was obligated to act in that form, because
none likes someone to say bad things related to our mothers, but we have other ways to solve this
kind of problems, we cannot only go attacking someone, Oliver should ask first why are you
saying this bad things? he could have a conversation with him in order to know the reason, why
the boy says that the mother of Oliver was beech

Anyway, he acts at the moment because he was young, it happens with children. Of Course that
even if I was, I could run after being punched If the young Oliver knew that he was to grow up
under the tender of the Beadle, he would have cried even launder. Of course that he had passed
for bad and sad moments there.

“Oliver sets off on foot for London. On the way he meets a strange boy, Jack Dawkins, who
befriends him and offers him a place to stay in London. Dawkins leads Oliver to a house of
unimaginable filth, and introduces him to an ugly old man, Fagin. At first, Fagin and the boys
who live with him seem very kind to Oliver. One day, Oliver asks if he can go to ‘work’ with the
other boys and it is then that he understands they are all thieves. Jack Dawkins and Charley Bates
steal a handkerchief from an old man, Mr. Brownlow. The man raises the alarm, and in the
confusion Oliver is apprehended by a policeman. Mr. Brownlow takes pity on Oliver and takes
him to his house. Fagin and his evil friend Bill Sikes are informed of this development and make
plans to get Oliver back, with the help of Bill’s girlfriend, Nancy “, Charles

I strongly believe that, the young Oliver was starved and exhausted, but he could not participate
in this acts, stealing people pockets, we know yes that some young’s acts in this away, but we
cannot let the material things or friends to change our attitude to drive us, to practice bad things.
The young Oliver, has enough age to disagree with things which are good and which are not good
to be done. Actually this act is still happing in our society, which is not good thing to be practiced
A reality that has not changed much from here to many countries.
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On the other hand, Oliver is not a believable personality, because although he is raised in corrupt
surroundings, and the Olive’s purity and virtue are absolute. Throughout the history, Dickens
uses Oliver’s figure to challenge the Victorian idea that paupers and criminals are already evil at
birth, arguing instead that a corrupt environment is the source of vice.

However, Oliver presumably is not well-educated. Even when he is abused and manipulated
with the criminals, Oliver does not become angry or indignant. When Sikes and Crackit force him
to assist in a robbery, Oliver merely begs to be allowed to run away and die in the fields. Oliver
does not present an involved image of a person torn between good and evil, instead of, he is
goodness incarnate.

One of the favorite parts of the story was when Oliver went out to steal with the boys, ended up
arrested and was taken to the police station, because this is place for all criminals is the place
where Fagin ended up his rest of life.

There is a passage in which Oliver is taken to the police station, and the lady which lives with
Fagin goes there lying that Oliver is parent of mine, in my point view, I think that she could not
play in this cine, because even knowing that the young is not her parent she didn’t play well this
part, because she didn’t go there with confidence and she went there with fears, that’s why she
didn’t get the young Oliver back. So, in order to show that Oliver is real her parent, she could
cray a lot, in order to convince the policeman’s that she is saying the truth, she could dramatize
too much this scene.

“Oliver is very content in Mr. Brownlow’s house, which is very clean and comfortable. One day,
Oliver offers to take some books and some money to a bookshop for Mr Brownlow. On the way
to the shop, Oliver is captured by Bill Sikes and Nancy and taken back to Fagin’s house. Fagin
tells Oliver that he has to work for him. Sikes and Fagin plan a robbery in a country house, and
they choose Oliver as the boy they need to enter the house through a small window. Oliver enters
the house, but a noise wakes up the household, and Oliver is shot. Sikes grabs him and runs
away, but then drops him in a field “Charles

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Again, here Mr. Brownlow presents as good person, it can tell us that most of the people are kind,
they are polite and can easily help someone even without know, who exactly is. I can say that this
is the nature of human been.

The young Oliver surely feels good to live on that place, because he was well treated, and he find
them as the fathers that he never had, to live on that place makes him wonderful, because is
different from the place where the one was living before, and is different from where he born and
other places where the young passed.

He felt happy, because he passed more time suffering, half of his infancy ages suffering when he
is token with someone with good heart and treated well, of course he can fell happy, because was
not easy to find this kind of people. Is where he discovers that not all the people are bad, but also
there are good people in this world

One of the best parts of the book is exactly the end: after so much suffering and discord, Oliver
discovers his origins and lives a happy and plenty life. In the course of communication and
expression, I had the opportunity to read the book and watch the movie. The scene that caught my
attention is when Oliver appears on the stool all tidy and reading a book, I think hard to imagine
when the story began. If I were the author Charles Dickens, I would change what happens to
Fagin at the end of history. I believe and mercy

However, the major concern of Oliver Twist is the question of whether a bad environment can
irrevocably poison someone’s personality and soul. As the story progresses, the quality who best
illustrates the contradictory issues brought up by that question is Nancy. As a child of the streets,
Nancy has been a thief and drinks to excess. The narrator’s reference to her free and agreeable.
manners, indicates that she is a prostitute. She is immersed in the vices condemned by her
society, but she also commits perhaps the most noble act in the novel when she sacrifices her own
life in order to protect Oliver. Nancy’s moral complexity is unique among the major personalities
in the story.

“Oliver wakes up and decides to enter the house again. A doctor is called to attend to Oliver’s
wound. The owners of the house, Rose Maylie and her aunt, Mrs. Maylie, nurse Oliver through a
fever. He recovers and enjoys several months of happiness. Then, one night when he is half
asleep, he thinks he sees Fagin and another man at his window and screams. Meanwhile, back in
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the workhouse, Mr. Bumble receives a visitor, Mr. Monks. Monks questions Bumble about
Oliver, and wants to see a woman who knows something about Oliver’s mother. Bumble arranges
a meeting and an old woman gives Monks a locket that belonged to Oliver’s mother. Monks then
throws this into the river “Charles.

One of the saddest parts was when that gang forced Oliver to steal the Brownlow’s house. The
boy has not a choice, the one he didn’t like to participate because they treated him so well, and
soon to go there to do bad things. that’s why he trying to warn you the kind, ended up getting a
shot on the arm and fell and was taken back to Fagin's house.

Again we see here that Nancy, was a little bit bad girl, but she helped Oliver, when she went to
tell Brownlow in order to protect the boy Oliver, it shows us that she had a good heart and she
didn’t like to happen something with Oliver as young, because has happened something with her
in the past, she didn’t like it can happen again with child.

Fagin is more than a statement of ethnic prejudice. He is a richly drawn, resonant embodiment of
terrifying villainy. At times, he seems like a child’s distorted vision of pure evil. Fagin is
described as a loathsome reptile and as having fangs such as should have been a dog’s or rat’s
Other qualities occasionally refer to him as the old one, a popular nickname for the devil. Twice,
there is a passage in which, Oliver wakes up to find Fagin nearby. Oliver encounters him in the
hazy zone between sleep and waking, at the precise time when dreams and nightmares are born
from the mere silent presence of some external object. Indeed, Fagin is meant to inspire
nightmares in child and adult readers alike.

“Nancy overhears a conversation between Fagin and Monks concerning Oliver. She decides to
tell Rose Maylie, who is now in a London hotel with Oliver. She informs Rose that Monks
believes Oliver to be his brother and is planning terrible things for him. Nancy arranges to meet
Rose on London Bridge on Sunday night. There she tells Brownlow and Rose where they can
find Monks, and what he looks like. Noah Claypole, who is hiding nearby, overhears the
conversation and runs to tell Fagin. Claypole then recounts his story to Bill Sikes, who in a mad
rage, batters Nancy to death with a heavy stick. “Charles

The story is full of quality who are all good and can barely comprehend evil, such as Oliver,
Rose, and Brownlow; and attitude who are all evil and can barely comprehend good, such as
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Fagin, Sikes, and Monks. Only Nancy comprehends and is capable of both good and evil. Her
ultimate choice to do good at a great personal cost is a strong argument in favor of the
incorruptibility of basic goodness, no matter how many environmental obstacles it may face.

Therefore, there is a passage in which, enter Fagin’s head for his last night alive. The gallows,
and the fear they inspire in Fagin, are a specter even more horrifying to contemplate than Fagin
himself.

One of the saddest parts was when that gang forced Oliver to steal the Brownlow’s house. In
trying to warn you the kind, ended up getting a shot on the arm and fell and was taken back to
Fagin's house.

On the other hand, we know that a bad person always in the end, ends bad, but in this story, in my
point, knowing that he was wanted by the police, he could accept to be taken to the jail, and not
to die, like the way that he did.

I found a story full of turnaround and that shows the reality of how the children who were not
rich suffered at that time. A reality that has not changed much from here to many countries. The
part of the book that I liked the most and indicated was when Nancy, a woman of life, revealed
the whole plan to the benefactor of Oliver. She seemed evil at the beginning of the book, but in
the end she turned out to be a good person.  Nancy wanted to help Oliver and had a good
opportunity to poison the great villain of history, Mr. Sikes, but faithful to him did not kill him. If
I could change something in the book, I would change the end. It would make Oliver, the
protagonist, forgive the villain Fagin, who despite having explored him, never hurt him

“Sikes decides to leave London, but returns with plans to escape to France. Meanwhile, Monks is
brought to Brownlow’s house. Brownlow tells Monks what he believes happened in the past.
Monks’s father separated from his wife, and fell in love with a beautiful young girl, Agnes. He
planned to marry her, but died suddenly. Agnes died soon afterwards in the workhouse, after
giving birth to Oliver, making Oliver Monks’s half-brother. Monks’s father left a will giving half
of his property to Oliver, a will that Monks’s mother then destroyed. Brownlow accuses Monks
of throwing away a locket, proof of Oliver’s parentage, and of paying Fagin to turn Oliver into a
thief. Monks admits to everything. Sikes later dies by accidentally hanging himself, Fagin is
sentenced to death and hanged, and Oliver lives happily as Brownlow’s adopted son“Charles
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There is something that I have enjoyed less, because at all is a good story and there is no concrete
to be taxed out of my taste, but could have better parts. I would particularly change the part in
which Nancy girl of life trying to help Oliver dies, as we see that she has a good heart, even being
part of the gang. The young Twist: a sad start with a happy ending

Even though, I found it interesting the book and the movie, because it shows a story that in many
cases exists. And so we can know more of the reality shown in the book. I liked the story, as we
can see that, even with everything, Oliver does not lose motivation and is always fighting for his
life. One of the best parts of the book is exactly the end: after so much suffering and discord,
Oliver discovers his origins and lives a happy and plenty life. In the course of communication and
expression, we had the opportunity to read the book and watch the movie.

On the other hand, the scene that caught my attention is when Oliver appears on the stool all tidy
and reading a book thing hard to imagine when the story began. If I were the author Charles
Dickens, I would change what happens to Fagin at the end of history. I believe Fagin deserved
piety and mercy.

This history of the writer Charles is very interesting because it shows a reality of that time in the
old London. Violence, hunger, unemployment and social inequality marked the life of the small
Oliver. The coolest part is undoubtedly when the program girl, Nancy, goes to Mr. Brownlow,
Oliver's best friend, to try to help the boy escape from death. Nancy lost a great chance to kill Bill
Silkes, the great villain in history. Bill, I fail to poison him. If I were Charles Dickens, I would
give a better life for Nancy and would not let anything happen to her. She had a difficult life
since she was a child, but she still helped the young Oliver whenever she can. Oliver in search of
freedom

Therefor the boy young Oliver was different from others on that time, always questioning and
doing what the other boys were afraid to do, and this makes the main reason for the creation of
the orphanage was to make the orphans shelter and had a better life than on the street, but in the
case, the people who took care of the shelter took the money for themselves and the children ate
only porridge and continued Oliver could not stand it and ran away for the streets of London,

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Although, Oliver should choose his decisions wisely between right and wrong, but even wanting
good sometimes he could not, since he was a very innocent boy and was easily handled by others.

In Oliver's story, what admired me was the fact that he was always an honest boy different from
most other children like him, who entered the life of the crime by free and spontaneous will and
lived in the life that his robberies provided them. Despite the story talk about facts that do not
please most people, I believe that, in the way the narrative was built is perfect, since it shows the
problems of society and creates a mystery and approach of the reader because of the mystery
caused, resisting the life of being trickster

The book shows reality and neglect with orphaned children in the nineteenth century through
Oliver's personality. The true Child of Golden. Twist is such a person as charismatic, dear and
pure. It is impossible not to fall in love with this child. Even in the midst of so much suffering
and terror, Oliver always had room for love. A child with all the reasons to turn against
everything and everyone has chosen to love and live an honest life. Always so grateful for the
friends who did over their journey

Marginality, hypocrisy and abuse of power try to be placed by some shillings stolen in the
crowded and dirty markets. Not even the silk scarves of the old rich are able to clean what
London has become. Children without parents, abandoned in the streets and created in the corrupt
parish. Hypocrisy permeates many homes of cruel and repulsive devotees that see the poor as
lower beings, which must be corrected with physical and psychological violence. Oliver Twist is
that book that serves as an indication to our wise colleagues who defend meritocracy and brave
on social networks that for everything is a way, because who does not survive a single drain daily
porridge, Although the end is something more positive than our reality tells us, reflections are
eternal, making this book, for me, a great masterpiece of the writer.

The sadness part is that in which the bad man punches that lady Nancy until to kill her, on the
other hand we can see that sometimes some animals can help us, as we can see that, was a dog
who helped those people to locate the bad man Sikes, it can teach us that even animals we must
respect, because sometimes acts like people

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On the other hand, some personalities that have promoted so many discords, so many in the life
of Oliver and other characters are punished, mainly for their own fault. This is the case of Fagin,
who after trapped, needs to live with himself in the cell and through a beautiful metaphor, the sun
hits the window and illuminates the crime, showing that we cannot escape our responsibilities,
especially, we cannot flee ourselves.

Oliver, forgives Fagin for everything and stays with him to the end, in his cell. He can realize in
that poor Jewish the minimum of humanity and goodness and feel grateful for all that this man
did for him: He treated him with dignity and did not attack him or offended him as others. He
tried to protect him when he can and that was the best he had to offer, within his context of
misery and pain. Without this giant personality, we would not have the history of so many lives
that circulate in the great London through the times, in search of opportunity and a better life,
which does not always realize the way we expect

I found the story full of turnaround and that shows the reality of how the children who were not
rich suffered at that time. A reality that has not changed much from here to many countries. The
part of the book that I liked the most and indicated was when Nancy, a woman of life, revealed
the whole plan to the benefactor of Oliver. She seemed evil at the beginning of the book, but in
the end she turned out to be a good person. Nancy wanted to help Oliver and had a good
opportunity to poison the great villain of history, Mr. Sikes, but faithful to him did not kill him. If
I could change something in the book, I would change the end. It would make Oliver, the
protagonist, forgive the villain Fagin, who despite having explored him, never hurt him.

I loved the work, I had never heard before this story, but I discovered that this work was
produced by several publishers and producers. I would definitely recommend to a colleague
because it is the reality of many boys these days even if it is centuries ago. What interested me
most was that even though he was a lost boy, he always sought to be good, keeping himself firm
and never accepted to make incorrect acts easily. He did not like to hurt any people. The fact that
I least pleased me was Nancy's death. She was a good girl in the middle of bad people. He did not
deserve such melancholy death.

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