Oliver Twists's Fagin as a Character for Whom the Audience has Considerable Sympathy

Dickens structures series of expanding clauses to emphasize the progression of Pip’s relationship with criminals to express how his life was affected in this crisis. In the first half “ . . . how strange it was that I should be encompassed by all this taint of prison and crime”, Dickens uses flashbacks to illustrate the scene of how Pip’s life was surrounded by convicts. He delays the main clause (“that it should in this new way pervade my fortune and advancement”) until the end of the sentence in order to build tension of how convicts always altered his life numerously. By using the phrase “that it should” after the semicolon, it adds a suspension in order to describe the feeling of eerie - how Pip’s life should have been different if he

Analyse the presentation of Bill Sikes in the novel Oliver Twist. You should refer to aspects such as the author’s viewpoint, language and the social and historical contest. I am going to write a detailed and accurate piece of writing in the form of an essay to answer the statement above. I will do this by using quotes from the book, my own theories on what the author is trying to portray Bill Sikes as and also my own knowledge of the Victorian era. I will be looking at specific areas, which I feel will help me write a more concluding and correct account of the story “Oliver Twist.”

A boy is enjoying himself in a party over the weekend. As he comes to get a drink, another boy approaches him, promising a fun experience if he inhales some smoke from a ‘popper’. He has heard the warnings of his parents to not trust strangers, but this friend of his would never dare to harm him in any way. Also, it was only a whiff, and he knew that if you only do a drug once, you won’t have any long-term effects. His friend promised him nothing would go wrong. Not knowing what would happen next, the boy took the ‘popper’, and cracked it open, inhaling the rich smoke coming out of it, and slipped into a dazed, lethargic state. Although William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet shows that teenagers made many impulsive choices in

abuse is all he knows and believes. By referring to him as a Firpo, Cody 's parents are

In The Outsiders, the dialog states," ‘I killed him,’ he (Johnny) said slowly. ‘I killed that boy,’ ” (Hinton 49). At this point in the book, a boy has killed another boy after being threatened. There are many controversial topics in The Outsiders, such as assassination. Murder is an extremely sensitive topic, scaring readers or giving them inappropriate ideas of violence. The novel presents,“Everyone in our neighborhood, even the girls, smoked. Except for Darry, who was too proud of his athletic health to risk a cigarette, we had all started smoking at an early age” (Hinton 83). The author tells a reader that the characters smoke, even though underage. Smoking is a very unhealthy habit for underage people to begin; sadly, some readers imitate or copy famous book and television characters. These same readers may begin these unhealthy obsessions of smoking, drugs, or violence because they are influenced by the character. S.E. Hinton continues to write,“ ‘It was Dally. He phoned from a booth. He's, just robbed a grocery store and the cops are after him. We gotta hide him. He'll be at the lot in a minute’ ” (130). A boy has decided to engage in illegal activities and hide from enforcers of the law. It is illegal to steal and hide from the police, no matter the reason. Readers will begin to believe these actions are acceptable, making parents and educators believe The Outsiders

It might be difficult to accept but every child can be hurt, put at risk or harm or abused, regardless of their age, gender, religion or ethnicity.

Child abuse is a serious crime, whereas the abuser “acts out of commission.” According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , this is defined as the act of being “deliberate and intentional.” Unfortunately, it was no accident for Gabriel Fernandez, who was tortured to death by his biological mother and boyfriend. Court reports indicated the 8-year-old boy was doused with pepper spray, forced to eat his own vomit and cat feces, and locked inside a kitchen cabinet with a sock stuffed in his mouth to silence him. On May 24, 2013, paramedics arrived to a 911 call from Gabriel’s mother Pearl, as they first saw Gabriel unresponsive and laying down naked in the bedroom with a fractured skull, burns to his body, three broken ribs and BB pallets were found inside his lungs and groin. Remorsefully, Gabriel had passed away two days later. Despite the facts stated by Statistic Brain, yearly 681,000 children in the United States are abused and four children each day loses their lives, there are many parents who still believes harsh physical punishment is the only effective method way to get children to behave. Some, do not see anything wrong with this and others have a mindset of “showing who’s the boss” standing the ground as an authority figure. Soumya Manna from India says:

He somehow seems to think that they made handkerchiefs and went to an execution. “The Jew” has also been introduced. I found out that his name is Fagin. Oliver definitely didn’t know that they were thieves. Cause when he sees them steal, he is so shocked that he runs away and gets falsely accused of being the thief. :( His innocence is so sad and cute.

Charles Dickens’ classic novel Great Expectations follows the development of a young boy named Pip into a fully mature man through his odyssey to find his affinity in society. Throughout Pip’s journey, readers see him fall into the habit of self-swindling. Much like the swindling of money or material goods, self-swindling involves deception and fraud, but takes the form of deceiving one’s own thoughts which, in turn, creates unrealistic ideals in one’s mind. In Great Expectations, Dickens creates contrasting characters Miss Havisham, Pip, and Joe Gargery whose different approaches to handling self-swindling display the importance of self awareness in developing as a person.

Adrian Peterson, 29, a running back for the Minnesota Vikings disciplined his 4-year-old son with a switch and left a number of bruises and lacerations on his body. Peterson disciplined his son after the boy pushed another one of Peterson’s sons off a motorbike video game. The Vikings running back used a switch (a thin branch or a rod used for whipping) to discipline his child, resulting in bruises and lacerations on the boys back, legs, arms and buttocks. After the boy returns home to his mother in Minnesota, the bruises discovered during a routine doctor’s visit, the doctor says the injuries are consistent with child abuse. A child abuser should go to jail for doing such a horrible thing.

Children can be victims of different types of maltreatment such as neglect, medical abuse, physical abuse and sexual abuse (Maschi, Bradley, & Ward, 2009). “On average, nationally, there is a report of child maltreatment every 5 seconds, and child maltreatment is substantiated every

Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist is saturated with the evil of men (and women) who seek to destroy the purest of things—the innocence of a child. The majority of the characters in this novel are driven by greed, power (over the less fortunate) and pure evil—non-more so than Mister Bumble, the cruel, pompous old beadle of the poorhouse where Oliver is raised, and Fagin, a “loathsome reptile” of a man. While each of these men will succumb to some level of depravity, as will the other characters, young Oliver Twist does not. Against all odds, Oliver is the only one who remains untainted by the evil that surrounds him all times. Despite the heartbreaking revelation of his parents’ demise, dealing with the loss of them both, the ill treatment he receives on a daily basis, existing in a world completely void of light and permeating with corruption, Oliver never adopts the pervasive nature of those around him. The infestation, which eventually consumes all those around him, is something that Oliver Twist was able to avoid due to his purity of self.

This book, although has a very strange title was very interesting. Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat considers the psychological disorders of various individuals. Specifically, patients that have lost their memories of their past and act out in a violent matter. The book allows you to sympathize with people who are struggling through mental illness and get a deeper in-depth perspective on what it is like to live with it. Sacks allows you to see that having a mental illness does not make you retarded rather it allows potential to unlock other amazing talents that a patient may possibly hold. Also, Sacks sees opportunity within these people that everyone else cannot and he allows you to open your mind and see this process as

Lies and deceit are major components in the development of the plot of Charles Dickens’s nineteenth-century novel, Great Expectations. Deceit, the action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth, coupled with lying tend to be the prevailing character trait of many of the characters in the novel. As a matter of fact, Dickens not only inaugurates the story with a lie, but the deception continues to shape the plot until the end.

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