OLIVER TWIST - By Cherles Dickens

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OLIVER

TWIST

 By Cherles Dickens

AUTHOR Charles Dickens

TITLE: Oliver Twist

TOPIC: Oliver Twist

THEMES:

-the starvation suffered  by children

-the ill-treatment suffered by children

-the behavior of the rich men with the orphans

SUPPORTING SENTENCES:

Please, sir, I want some more.

The master aimed a blow at Oliver s head with the laddle,pinioned him in his arms, and shrieked aloud for the beadle.

The boy will be hung.

VERBS EXPRESSING:

-to want

-to suffer

-to shriek

CONNECTIVES: and, of, in, but

KEY WORDS: Hunger, tortures, gruel

PLOT: Oliver asked for more gruel at supper because his companions and him suffered the hunger. The Master got very angry and said that Oliver would have been hung for that request.