Thursday, September 6, 2007

Reading Oliver Twist

By Paolo P.

The title of the story is "Oliver Twist." It happened in the past, around 1800’s. It happened in the United Kingdom. The main character is Oliver Twist. He was a little poor boy in the story and he was an orphan. It was written by Charles Dickens. Dickens was born England in 1812 and he was considered as one of the best novelist of his time. He liked to write about hardships in the 19th century.

The story began when his mother died. He went to a workhouse. His problem started when he was in the workhouse. The people in the workhouse were bullying him. Next, he asked for food and the people in the workhouse got mad. Then, they sold him to an undertaker. The workmate of Oliver was beating him up and so Oliver ran away. He went to London and joined a gang of stealers. They wanted him to steal but he did not want to. His problem ended when a lot of people helped him like Mr. Brownlow, Mrs. Maylie, Rose and Nancy. The villains, Fagin went to jail while Bill Sikes died.

I think the story adapted by Kathleen Costick was fun at the start but wasn’t so thrilling in the end. Of all the people in the world, Oliver ended up in his aunt’s house. I think it is so unreal!!! I think that Costick made the story easier to read because the words were so big and story was short. However, the cover art was wrong because it showed Oliver stealing but he never stole. I think Dickens wrote the story to make people become aware of what’s happening to orphans and other poor people.

Paolo P. can play the guitar and likes playing soccer.

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