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Friday, March 22, 2019
Due Wednesday, March 27th - "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens - Chapters I - V
Directions: Please read Chapters 1-5 of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. In a blog response, consider the following characters: Mr. Bumble, Mrs. Mann, Mrs. Sowerberry, Noah Claypole. Choose one of the aforementioned characters and defend why you think he/she is the most cruel. Use direct quotations from the text in order to make you argument. Use evidence to prove why your choice is the most cruel, and use examples to prove why the others are not as cruel. Read your fellow classmates’ responses. Have a dialogue about their ideas. Finish your blog response with a guess as to what will happen to Oliver next. Again, use evidence from the text to back-up your theory.
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Drew Wachtel
ReplyDeleteI think Mr.Bumble is the most cruel because I think he overreacted when Oliver asked for more and instantly sold him away to another mean family that doesn’t care if he dies or not. Also I think that Mr.Bumble is the most cruel because he forces Oliver to act like he likes his new owners when he really doesn’t and if he doesn’t act like he likes them he beats him up. All Mr.Bumble cares about is his money , he doesn’t care about any of the kids he works with. If you gave him money to act like this workhouse is fine and following the rules he will do it and I think that if you can get persuaded by money to do something wrong I feel like you have no heart and don’t care about anyone but yourself/ selfish.
Sophia Lakos
ReplyDeleteSo far in the book “Oliver Twist” Mr. Bumble seems to be the cruelest. He is the one that denied Oliver of more food and made a big deal out of it when he asked for more. He went as far as saying Oliver was to be hung for what he did, as the reader we know he was really asking for the other kids and was forced to go up and ask. Since Mr. Bumble telling everyone Oliver has been kept as a prisoner, denied access to the resources every kid should have such as exercise and the joy of being in a society. Also, all Mr.Bumble seems to care about is the money, and so do most of his caretakers they are all in it for the money and not to help the kids.
Frankie Huntress
ReplyDeleteI think Mr.Bumble is the most cruel because he wants olver to be hung after asking for more. when Oliver asked for more and sold him away to another mean family that doesn’t care what happens to him. I think that Mr.Bumble cruel because he thretens oliver if he dosent like his new home. Mr.Bumble is very gredy , he doesn’t care about any of the kidshe instpects. He takes brides very easyly and only cares about money and not what might happen to the kids.
Davis Blanch
ReplyDeleteI would say Mr.Bumble is the cruelest. He sells Oliver away after he asked to have more food and he said that Oliver should be hung. Mr.Bumble doesn't care for the kids he watches and he takes bribes from the workhouse owners to not say anything about it that could get them shut down or into trouble.
Peyton Levental
ReplyDeleteI would have to say that Mr.Bumble was the cruelest to Oliver. When Oliver needed to ask for more food he made the biggest deal out of what happend. Mr.Bumble says that "he should be hung" for him asking for more gruel and should be hung right away, he really wanted to kill a child. Mr.Bumble only cares about the money and could care less about really caring for the children and making them feel safe, he would do anything to persuade the council into making them think that where the kids were staying was safe when really it wasn't at all. The other characters have yet to shown this much cruelty.
Julia Campbell
ReplyDeleteIn the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, Mr. Sowerberry seems to be the cruelest. I believe this because he intends to make Oliver suffer, he is almost wore than Mrs. Mann. Even though he took Oliver in, he does it for profit, not moral reasons. Although Mr. Bumble is an overall gross man, Mr. Sowerberry had evil intent when he brought Oliver in.
Rene Roustand
ReplyDeleteOut of all these people, I believe Mr. Bumble is the most cruel. I believe this because in chapter 3, when Mr. Gamfield will buy oliver, he says to Oliver, "all for a naughty orphan which nobody can't love."
Mitch Keamy
ReplyDeleteThe most cruel character in Oliver Twist is Mrs. Sowerberry. Mr. and Mrs. Sowerberry are undertakers. Oliver is an apprentice to Mr. Sowerberry who makes a living doing cheap burials and he treats Oliver Twist kindly. However, his antagonist wife (Mrs. Sowerberry) treats Oliver poorly. She was very controlling and made him sleep under the counter with the rest of the dead bodies. She is also Judgemental and constantly nagging her husband and the children. She mistreats her husband and picks on Oliver who had a rough childhood and no mother or father.
Lucy Elerath
ReplyDeleteIn the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, in my opinion, Mr. Bumble is arguably the cruelest character introduced to us in the early pages. He is Oliver's advocate and basically his modern-day social worker. He does not care about the boy but only what he can make off of him and he takes such pride in the name he gave Oliver. He is very two-faced by making the council and the people he is giving Oliver to think he is showing a loving hand to the boy. He finds humor and the ability to put down Oliver because he came from ‘nothing.’ While Mr. Sowerberry and Mrs. Sowersberry make quite the nasty duo of employers it is Mr. Bumble who has the power to control and see he goes to a nice place.
Lucas Kaufman
ReplyDeleteThe first five chapters of Charles Dickens’ literary masterpiece “Oliver Twist” detail the circumstances surrounding the protagonist’s birth and first ten years of life, and how he got out of this. These chapters introduce several characters who show Oliver little to no mercy in their treatment of him, such as his old caretaker Mrs. Mann, the beadle Mr. Bumble, one his new caretakers, Mrs. Sowerberry; and Mr. Sowerberry’s apprentice Noah Claypole. In the question of which was most cruel to Oliver, however, all seem to be on a similar level. Mrs. Mann was Oliver’s caretaker for his first decade of life, and was atrocious in her treatment of all her foster children, feeding them the smallest portions of gruel and washing them only when absolutely necessary. She gave severe punishments for even the most minor (and completely valid) complaints, but forced the children to act like they loved it on threats of beatings when the beadle came, just so she could keep her job. Mr. Bumble, the aforementioned beadle, removed Oliver from Mrs. Mann’s custody on account of his being old enough for the workhouse, and treated him no better. It was under Bumble’s care that the famous “I want some more” scene played out, which resulted in Bumble flying into a rage about how the spoiled brat Oliver Twist would dare ask for more than the tiny portion of gruel (which is itself not such a filling or appetizing “food”) he was given, and resulting in Twist being severely punished. Bumble also takes after Mrs. Mann in his forcing Oliver to act the way he wants the child to, in the way beneficial for the beadle. Mrs. Sowerberry, the wife of the undertaker who decides to purchase Oliver for the lofty price of £5 (≈ $6.59) to work as an apprentice, may have been less cruel to Oliver, but this could be because she has had less exposure to the boy then Mann or Bumble. The first meeting of Sowerberry and the young Oliver sees her be, in a way, disapproving of the boy’s small stature and thin frame, referring to him as a “bag o’ bones” as she pushes him down steep stairs into the cellar of the Sowerberry estate. She shows considerable dislike toward Oliver for the remainder of the section, never seeming content with his work. Noah Claypole, the young apprentice of Mr. Sowerberry, is more of a “playground bully” type in comparison to Oliver than the other characters, probably only because he is much younger. The first interaction between the two consists of Noah waking Oliver up with a loud kick to the door of the coffin storage room (which the Sowerberrys doubled as Oliver’s bedroom) and immediately assuming dominance over the newer, younger child. Noah constantly refers to Oliver by the nickname “Work’us” and treats the boy as beneath him, despite not holding much higher status himself.
Abhi Sharma
ReplyDeleteI would say that Mr.Bumble was the cruelest out of all of them because Oliver asked for more food he yelled at Oliver and sold him to a different family and don’t care what happens to him and says Oliver should be hung. Mr. Bumble doesn’t care about what happens to the kids he cares about getting money and so all of the other caretakers. He doesn’t care about anyone else but himself.
Lucy Elerath
ReplyDelete1. Big cities have a higher population than the suburbs but in most cases, it costs more to live there. The logic of a poor person is ‘there are more people and they are more wealthy so I can beg and make more than I usually would.’ Also, the big capital cities were there the economy was thriving so it might have been easier to get a job. Oliver decides he wants to go there to escape the beatles grasp.
2. John Dawkins is introduced in chapter 8. He meets Oliver and he is around the same age but relatively a smooth talker, he is more experienced and he is very careful with his words. He meets Oliver and takes him to his house but along the way kinda brags that he has another place to stay in another city & the place he is in that town he stays there for free. When the two boys get to the house The Artful Dodger lies about where Oliver is from and tells Oliver he does not have to pay and the landlord won’t get on his case. When you see how this kid works he parallels to Tom Sawyer.
4. He can see now how the Artful Dodger got his name and sees that Mr. Fagin was only soft towards the boys when they are ‘working well’. The
5. It is hard to determine which stiuation he was in was better, with Mr. and Mrs. Sowerberry or Fagin and the boys. When he was with Mr. and Mrs. Sowerberry he was yelled at and given no comfortable place to sleep and he had to work and deal with the people around him make fun and belittle him. When he is with Fagin and the boys he is given his own bed and has ‘friends’ and does not have to pay and he is laughing for the first time in the novel, however when the boys don’t do their jobs they are punished harshly by Fagin, and he is realizing their ‘work’ is stealing from peoples pockets in the streets. We can tell that when Oliver first met the Dodger he thought he would be better off and found the situation cool, but now he is seeing how it really is and does not want to be a part of it.
Evan Brenner
ReplyDeleteI think Mr. Bumble is the most cruel character because he made a huge deal when Oliver asked for more food. He then orders Oliver to be hung for asking for more food. He has no idea how much the children are struggling and does not care. “The master aimed a blow at Oliver's head with the ladle; pinioned him in his arm; and shrieked aloud for the beadle”. This explains him yelling and raging at Oliver because he asked for more food.