Directions: Please read Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Chapters 26-34. Please compose a comprehensive blog using at least THREE of the chapters from the reading. Make it a cross section of the chapters, one from the beginning, middle, and end of the reading selection. You may discuss characterization, plot developments, make predictions, and/or ask questions. Your blog response must include your personal insights, as well as 3-4 direct quotations from the text to back-up your responses. Remember to engage with one another.
Oliver Twist Audiobook
Drew Wachtel
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 26 Toby Crachet returns to Fagins hideout and tells him that he doesn’t know where Oliver and Bill Sikes went after the robbery. He also tells him that the robbery was unsuccessful and that Oliver got shot in the arm and Bill laid him in a ditch by the house out of sight from the guys chasing them. I think later in that chapter fagin tries to look for Bill at all of the places where he thinks that he might be. In Chapter 28 after Fagin is unsuccessful on finding Bill in any of the places where he thinks that he might be he goes to Bills apartment to visit Nancy. Nancy is sad and drunk when Fagin gets there and he tries to cheer her up but it doesn’t work. It is surprising that Nancy i sad that Bill is gone because Bill is mean to her. It is also surprising that Nancy wants Oliver to die in the ditch because whenever he looks at her he makes her feel sad. In chapter 31 the police officers get there to investigate the crime scene and they find that it was done by a boy and two adults. The owners of the house and the doctor offer wine to the officers because they don’t want Oliver to get put in jail because Oliver was forced to do the robbery and it wasn’t his choice.
Peyton levental
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 26 oliver is gone and Nancey is worried, Oliver is gone after the robbery and she believes that living with Fagin is worse than death. Fagin explains how oliver is worth money. Fagin sees these two monks who are interested into Oliver and want to turn him into a pickpocketer. In chapter 17 Mrs. Coney and mr. Bumble talk and flirt. They talk about the workhouse and how Mr.Bumble wants to marry her. In chapter 28 Oliver wakes up all of a sudden. Oliver gets caught snooping around where Mr. Giles and Mr. Brittles are and Oliver is brought inside and asked if he is okay. Then we meet the niece who is there to help Oliver out and feels bad for him and takes care of him. I am curious to know what will happen if Fagin finds Oliver again and what he will do.
Julia Campbell
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In chapter 28 Sikes and Crackit leave Oliver behind after their cowardly retreat from their attempted robbery. After Oliver being shot, Sikes acts as if he has no choice but to leave him in a ditch because he cannot carry him any longer. When Oliver wakes up he knows he is quick on death so he travels to the nearest house (the one they robbed) and gets help from them. Oliver is taken care of by two women, Rose, and Mrs. Maylie; Rose sees Oliver for who he is, courageous, confident, and inherently good. While Mrs. Maylie sees Oliver for what he appears to be, a thief. In chapter 30 Losborne convinces the household that Oliver went donw the wrong path and didn’t mean any harm. Unlike when he was with his “adopted” family he was able to tell his full story and thus prooving to the household that he is suitable for a life without crime. Losborne finds a way to manipulate the eye witness and Oliver gets off scot-free. Blathers and Duff feel that it wouldn't matter if Oliver were put to jail or not so Losborne decides to show a white lie since it will be for the greater good of Oliver. In chapter 34 Rose becomes sick but suddenly gets better. I believe Dickens’ purpose for this was to show the bond of family in the household; It is very strong and Oliver is being surrounded in it. I predict that Oliver will be taken away by Fagin's boys in the chapters to come. This will represent another of Olivers heartbreaks from a possible perfect family.
Ben Worthley
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 26 Toby goes and tells Fagin that bill and Oliver tried to rob a house. Oliver got shot and while they were being chased Bill left Oliver in a ditch. Faigin fears that Oliver is dead or in jail. In chapter 28 Faigin goes to bills apartment to look for him. I think that Faigin will get into a fight with Bill because they both see Oliver different. Bill sees him as a potential payday for himself. Faigin sees him as a boy that could make him rich but also as a kid. While he is in Bill apartment he finds Nacey and they talk about Oliver and bill. Nacey is also drunk so she is not in the right place.
Abhi Sharma
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 26, Oliver has gone missing after a robbery with Sikes. Bill has left him in a ditch when Oliver was shot. Then he goes to a house that is close and he found one but it was the one that he robbed in Chapter 28. Two women took care of Oliver by Rose and Mrs. Maylie. Rose sees Oliver as a nice young boy and Mrs. Maylie sees Oliver as a thief. In chapter 30 Mrs. Maylie was convinced that Oliver is not a criminal but was forced to do something against the law. I think that the Fagin will find Oliver and take him away from another good family which will leave Oliver heartbreak again.
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In chapter 28 Sikes and Crackit leave Oliver behind after their flee from their failed robbery. After Oliver being shot, Sikes leaves him in a ditch wanting to flee. When Oliver wakes up he knows he is quick on death so he travels to the house they just tried to roob and gets help from them. Oliver is taken care of by two women, Rose, and Mrs. Maylie; Rose sees Oliver for who he is on the inside a good man. While Mrs. Maylie sees Oliver a thief.
In chapter 31 the detectives get there to investigate the crime scene and they find that it was done by a boy and two adults. The owner of the house gives the cops wine to distract them becuse he knew oliver was forced to do it.
In chapter 34 Rose becomes sick but suddenly gets better. I believe dickens is setting a high point becuse in this chapter olivier is happy and sourounded by a strong loving family.I predict that Oliver will be taken away by family who orginaly baught him from the work house boys in the chapters to come. This will represent another of Olivers heartbreaks from a possible perfect family.
Evan Brenner
ReplyDeleteChapter 26: Fagin goes into a pub to find a man named Monks. There he doesn't find him. Then he goes to Sikes house. He finds Nancy and she says that Sikes is hiding. Nancy cries that she hopes Oliver is dead, because she believes that living with Fagin is worse than death. Fagin says that Oliver is worth hundreds of pounds to him. He then returns home to find Monks waiting at his house. Then Monks asks why Fagin has chosen to send Oliver out on such a mission rather than make the boy into a simple pickpocket. Monks has some interest in Oliver. Then they stop talking and Monks departs Fagin’s house.
Chapter 30: Two officers, Duff and Blathers examine the crime scene, while the surgeon and the women try to think of a way to cover Oliver’s part in the crime. The officers say that two men and a boy were involved, judging from the footprints and the size of the window. Mr. Losberne tells them that Giles mistook Oliver for being guilty. He tells them that Oliver was wounded accidentally by a spring-gun while going on the neighbor’s property. But, Giles and Brittles state that they cannot swear that he is the boy they saw that night.
Chapter 33: Rose gets ill with a serious fever. Mrs. Maylie sends Oliver to mail a letter to make sure she gets some assistance. When coming back he stumbles against a tall man wrapped in a cloak. The man curses Oliver, asks what he is doing there, and then falls violently to the ground. Later on Rose’s condition gets worse. Losberne arrives and checks her out. He stays there is little hope for her to get better. However, Rose soon draws back from the brink of death and begins to improve.
Sophia Lakos
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 26 Oliver was caught in a robbery so Bill says he left Oliver in a ditch after he was shot. In chapter 26 when Oliver wakes up he knows he will die soon if he does not get help, so he makes his way to the house he had tried to rob earlier. He is taken in by two women who try and take care of him. Rose see’s him as a little kid who wants to do good but is surrounded by bad people. The other women, Mrs. Maylie can only see Oliver for a bad person. Later on the scene of the crime is investigated and they know a little boy had taken part in it. Since the people know Oliver was forced to do it they try their best to hide him.
Gannon Sylvester
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Chapter 28
Bill Sikes leaves Oliver behind after their fight from their failed robbery. After Oliver being shot, Bill Sikes leaves him in a ditch and wants to leave him there. As soon Oliver wakes he travels to the house they just tried to rob to see if they can help him out. Oliver is taken care of by two women, Rose, and Mrs. Maylie, who both have very different opinions on who he is as a person.
Chapter 31
The detectives get there to investigate the crime scene and they find that it was done by Oliver and Bill Sikes. The owner of the house gives the cops wine to distract them because he knew Oliver was forced to do it.
Chapter 34
Rose becomes sick but gets better very quickly. I think that Oliver will be taken away by a family who originally had taken him from the work house boys in the chapters to come. This will represent another of Oliver's heartbreaks from a possible perfect family.
Rene Roustand
ReplyDeleteChapter 26: Fagin goes out to try and find Bill Sykes and Oliver, when he finds Nancy drunk. He explains the situation at hand, and to Fagin's shock Nancy says that Oliver is best to be in the ditch, out of their sight.
Chapter 28: Bill left Oliver laying in the ditch. As Oliver slowly gained conciousness, he was badly bruised up. He limped until he fainted at a doorstep...Mrs Maylie's doorstep, that is! Mr. Giles thinks that Oliver was a theif, and wanted to hang him. But two house-servants took the poor boy to nurse him back to health.
Lucas Kaufman (Part I)
ReplyDeleteThis section of “Oliver Twist” concerns what became of Oliver after he was left for dead by Bill Sikes and Toby Crackit, and how the young boy’s life fared in the following months. After two chapters following other characters in the continuations of their stories, the reader returns to the titular protagonist in Chapter 28, who regains consciousness in the ditch shortly after the chapter’s beginning. Oliver makes an attempt to move, but the cold and exhaustion combined with the effects of his injury render him too weak to do so, and he passes out again before finally being able to walk (though barely) upon once again awakening. Oliver clearly is not in a great physical or mental state at this point, as all his ill factors had left him so that “His head was dizzy, and he staggered to and fro like a drunken man” (257). He comes across a house, the very house he accompanied Sikes and Crackit in robbing, and realizing he does not have the energy to make it anywhere else, knocked on the door before collapsing on the front porch. The door is opened by Mr. Giles, butler and steward to the Maylie family who reside in that house, and he recognizes Oliver to be the boy who robbed him- or he at least correctly assumes the child to be so. An older lady-servant then takes Oliver up to a bedroom to let him rest, concluding the chapter.
By Chapter 32, Oliver has gotten significantly better, though still quite ill. He has received the utmost care and attention from the elderly Miss Maylie, the family’s adopted daughter Rose, and the family doctor, Mr. Losberne. As soon as he is well enough to partake in conversation, Oliver tells his caregivers about the only other kindness he had ever experienced in his ten years of life- his stay at the Brownlow estate in the company of Brownlow and Mrs. Bedwin. A short time skip then occurs, in which Oliver has recovered from his ailments enough to travel, and immediately embarks with Mr. Losberne to pay Mr. Brownlow a visit. After a short delay in which Oliver points out with the utmost fear the house which Sikes and Crackit take him to and Losberne goes inside only to find the boy apparently mistaken, our protagonist arrives at the Brownlow estate. To his dismay, however, he finds a sign on the door that reads “To Let” and soon discovers that Mr. Brownlow, along with Mrs. Bedwin and Mr. Grimwig, had left for the West Indies six weeks earlier. Oliver is now left in a state of sorrow and misery as he wonders if “the belief that he was an imposter and a robber [might] remain uncontradicted to his dying day” (289), but his mind is taken of this subject once the Maylies move to a new location- a small cottage on the countryside which they also own, leaving Giles and another servant in charge of the house at Chertsey. Oliver, who had spent his entire life in noisy, crowded cities and had thus never seen the beauties of the countryside, relished and enjoyed every moment he spent there. The greatness of Oliver’s new life is described in such detail that makes any reader envy the splendor of the boy’s current living conditions, and by the end of the chapter Oliver has spent three months in the Maylie cottage.
Lucas Kaufman (Part II)
ReplyDeleteChapter 34, the last of the reading, mainly details the aftermath of a scary misfortune that befell Oliver and the Maylies in Chapter 33- the beloved Rose fell deathly ill, but had miraculously recovered (enough for it to be deemed that she would “live to bless us all, in years to come” [300]) by the chapter’s end. Very early on, a new character makes his debut- Harry Maylie, son of Miss Maylie, arrives at the cottage with Mr. Giles to check on Rose (whom Harry has fallen in love with) after hearing of her illness. Harry then has a long conversation with his mother regarding the girl, and the fact that Harry plans to propose to her, and, knowing that Rose doesn’t know he is here, asks his mother to tell her. The next few days return Oliver to that state of euphoria he had experienced prior to Rose’s illness, and he lives just as happily as he had. That is until, one evening while Oliver sleeps in a chair, he sees and hears Fagin and Monks (the associate of Fagin who debuted in Chapter 26 and wants our hero dead for unknown reasons) in his dreams. He awakes with a start, only to start again when he sees the exact two people staring in the nearest window in the waking world. Oliver only sees them for an instant, but the sight of them and the looks on their faces instantly become impressed forever upon the young boy’s memory and he desperately calls for help.
Very detailed, good job lukas!
DeleteMitch Keamy
ReplyDeleteChapter 26: They had robbed the house and oliver was missing. Nancy was worried about Oliver. Fagin said that Oliver didn’t matter to him as a person but rather for the money. Nancy thinks dying is better than living with fagin.
Chapter 28: After the failed robbery when oliver was shot, sikes left him for dead in a ditch. He was sick of carrying him so he dumped him and left. Oliver wakes up in the ditch and knows that he is about to die so he stumbles to the nearest house. Ironically, the nearest house is the one he robbed but they take him in anyways and care for him.
Chapter 30: Losborne clutches up for oliver and convinces the house that he is a good person and can live without being a thief. They believe him and he manages to not get in trouble for the botched robbery. They believe Oliver that he was not a criminal, but he was forced to do the robbery and they take him in.
Davis Blanch
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 26 Toby Crachet returns to Fagin's hideout and tells him that he hasn’t found where Oliver and Bill Sikes went after the robbery. He also tells him that the robbery was unsuccessful and that Oliver got shot in the arm while climbing in the window and Bill laid him in a ditch by the house out of sight from the guys chasing them. later in the chapter, Fagin goes to try to look for Bill at all of the places where he thinks that he could have gone.
In Chapter 28 after Fagin is unsuccessful in finding Bill in any of the places where he thinks that he might be, he goes to Bills apartment to visit Nancy. Nancy is sad and drunk when Fagin gets there and he tries to cheer her up but he is unsuccessful in doing so. It is surprising that Nancy is sad that Bill is gone because Bill is mean to her. It is also surprising that while she is drunk, Nancy wants Oliver to die in the ditch because whenever he looks at her he makes her feel sad.
In Chapter 31 the police officers get to the house where Oliver was shot to investigate the crime scene and they find that it was done by a boy and two adults.
In chapter 26 Oliver was caught in a robbery bill said that he "left" Oliver in a ditch. after oliver was shot he woke up he knowing he will die soon if someone doesn't help him. Oliver was taken in by two women who try and take care of him. Rose said, "he wants to be a good person but he is surrounded by bad people". The other women was Mrs. Mylie. mrs mylie only see Oliver as a very bad person. Also In Chapter 31 the police officers get to the house where Oliver was shot to investigate the crime scene and they find that it was done by a boy and two adults.
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