Directions: Please read Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Chapters 16- 25. 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
ReplyDeleteOliver and Bill got caught during a robbery so now we don’t know where they are. I think that Oliver is going to go back to the workhouses with Mr.Bumble because I think that he got caught doing the Robbery and he will go back to court and they will send him back to the workhouse. I think that Bill will go to the gallows to never to be seen again. I think Fagin will try and find them but will come up empty. I also think that fagins days are numbered because I think that he is going to get caught soon.
Evan Brenner
ReplyDeleteChapter 16: Oliver gets dragged by Nancy and Sikes back to Fagin’s. Sikes tells Oliver that if he tries to escape or yell for help he will have his dog bite him. Later, Sikes lets Fagin keep Oliver’s books. Oliver claims that the books belong to Mr. Brownlow and he will think Oliver has stolen them if they aren’t returned. Fagin keeps them. Then Oliver tries to escape the apartment. They run after him. Sikes sends the dog after him, but Nancy blocks the door saying that Sikes shouldn’t hurt Oliver like that. Fagin and the two boys return with Oliver, he had not gotten very far away. “Poor Oliver unwillingly complied. Master Bates rolling up the new clothes under his arm, departed from the room, leaving Oliver in the dark, and locking the door behind him”.
Chapter 20: In the morning Oliver finds out that he is given new boots. He hopes it is because they are letting him go. At breakfast, Fagin tells him he’s going to Sikes house, but not permanently. Oliver asks why he is going, but Fagin won’t give him an answer. Oliver has no idea why he is being sent, he thinks it’s to just be a servant. Oliver is told to follow Sike’s rules as he is a crazy man. Right as Oliver walks in he shows Oliver a loaded gun, in case he tries to escape.
Chapter 25: Fagin and the boys learn that the robbery failed While Crackit and Sikes were trying to escape Oliver was shot in the arm and wounded. Also dogs were after them. After worrying they were going to be caught they left and abandoned Oliver in a ditch. After hearing this news Fagin runs out of the apartment worrying that Oliver was hurt or in danger.
Peyton Levental
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 16 Oliver gets captured by nancey and brought back to Sikes and fagin. Sike takes brownlows money. Here I feel bad for mr.Brownlow because he took Oliver in and gave him a home to be in and good clothes to wear and his money was being stolen by sikes that was meant for something else. Fagin then sends Oliver to bed and limits his time to actually see people. They make fun of his clothes, “Uncontrollable bursts of laughter, he produced the identical old suit of clothes which Oliver had so much congratulated himself upon leaving off at Mr. Brownlow’s,...” We see an opposite side of Fagin then what we saw in the beginning. He turns a little cruel and unfair, compared to when we first saw him being nice laughing and enjoying Oliver. In chapter 17 mr.Brownlow sets up a search for Oliver and tries to find him. Mr.Bumble sees this and goes to Brownlow and tells him how horrible of a child Oliver is. This changes Brownlows mindset on Oliver and he now doesn't like him, “Oliver was a foundling….who had terminated his brief career in the place of his birth, by making a sanguinary and cowardly attack on an unoffending lad, and then running away in the night-time from his master’s house.”
Ben Worthley
ReplyDeleteOver the course of chapter 16-17, Oliver goes back into the care of Fagin. I think Oliver will become such a problem that he gives Oliver back to Mr. Bumble. MR. Bumble will make a come back in one way or another. I think he gets in touch with Bill and Bill will “convince” Fagin to give back Oliver. Oliver will either die in the workhouse or he will try to escape.
Rene Roustand
ReplyDeleteIn Chapter 16, Nancy finds Oliver and takes him back to Fagin. Fagin welcomed the boy back warmly, but after he read the note Oliver gave him he was far from happy. He thinks Oliver had snitched and reported him to police and ran away. In rage, Fagin took his cane and drew a blow on Oliver's shoulders. I feel shocked because Fagin is a kind, old man who doesn't show unless he's scolding anybody. Three quotes that show this change in characterization are, " So you wanted to get away, my dear, did you", "Wanted to get assistance; called for the police; did you" and, "We'll cure you of that, my young master."
In Chapter 19, Bill, Nancy and Fagin make arrangements to lend Oliver to Bill for a while. Bill was reluctant at first, but after thinking about it he agreed. This suprised me, as Bill needed nobody's help. Quotes from the book that show this are, "Well, he is just the sie I want", "I want a boy, and he mustn't be a big un. Lord" and, "Oh, ah, it's all planned."
ReplyDeleteJulia Campbell
In chapter 16, Nancy exposes her sympathy for Oliver and you can only assume that she knows what it's like to be him; In fact, when Fagin attempts to club Oliver, Nancy says "Let him be—let him be, or I shall put that mark on some of you that will bring me to the gallows before my time!"(165). I think that in later chapters Nancy will make an attempt to bring Oliver back to his adoptive family because she knows what it's like to be among dangerous theives. In chapter 18, Fagin trys to persuede Oliver into choosing the “prig” lifestyle over his new family by telling him stories of his own great thefts. At the end of the chapter Dickens admits that Fagin is “...slowly insitilling into his soul the poision which he hoped would blacken it, and change it's hue forever.”. When we first met Fagin, he seemed like an innocent and nice charactor but as we know him longer we realize what his true intentions are.
Mitch Keamy
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 17, Mr. Brownlow puts up posters for missing Oliver. Mr Bumble saw one in the paper and went to Brownlow’s house. He told Brownlow that Oliver was bad and has been that way since birth. He explained how oliver hit noah claypole and tried to convince brownlow that oliver was a bad person. In Chapter 19, Mr sikes is planning to rob a house. Fagin told him that oliver would help and Sikes threatened to kill oliver if he said no. Sikes was acting very scary to oliver and nancy but they followed through, Nancy does not want oliver to end up in a life of crime. In chapter 22, Mr sikes takes oliver to his trap house where his friends are. They take oliver to the house they plan on robbing and when oliver tries to say no sikes tries to kill him. He pointed his gun at oliver and was ready to fire but his friend stopped him. Not because he wanted to save oliver, but because gunfire draws attention and he didn’t want Mr. sikes to give away their location and blow the operation.
Abhi Sharma
ReplyDeleteIn Chapter 16 Nacy write a letter to Mr.Brownlaw house for Oliver telling him to come outside.
When Nancy saw him she took him and then the Fagin and Sikes abducted him. Sikes tells Oliver if you escape or yell for help he will have his dog bite him. The Fagin welcomes Oliver back but then saw the letters and thought he complained to the police about him. Then we see the dark side of the Fagin that we didn’t see when the first time Oliver met the Fagin. Here are some quotes " So you wanted to get away, my dear, did you", "Wanted to get assistance; called for the police; did you" and, "We'll cure you of that, my young master.".
In Chapter 17 Mr.Brownlaw is now on a search to find Oliver by putting up a poster that he is missing. Mr.Bumble sees the poster and tries to convince Mr.Brownlaw that Oliver is a bad child and has been that way since the day he was born.
Sophia Lakos
ReplyDeleteIn Chapter 17 there was a reward of 5 guineas for information about where Oliver is, or if anyone has seem him. Mr. Bumble saw it and immediately went to Mr. Brownlow who was settled on the idea after they talked that Oliver was faking it the whole time. In Chapter 19 Sikes wants to rob a house but needs the help of someone smaller, Oliver was of course offered but, if he did not complete the mission Sikes threatened to kill him. Mrs. Corney who works at the workhouse and is caring for someone named sally. Sally knows the mother of Oliver because she was given a locket by the mother saying she had given birth to a son and named him Oliver. In the last chapter everyone learns the the attempted robbery was a fail and that Oliver has been shot and left in a ditch.
Frankie Huntress
ReplyDeleteOliver and Bill got arested during a robbery so now we don’t know where they are. I think that Oliver is going to get sent back to the workhouses with Mr.Bumble because I think that he got caught at the robbery and he will go back to court and he will go to the workhouse. I think that Bill will go to the gallows to never come back again in the book. I think Fagin will find oliver. I also think that fagin is going to get caught soon.
In Chapter 16 An important part was when Nancy wrote a letter to Mr.Brownlaw house directed to Oliver telling him to meet a person that knows about his family.
ReplyDeleteWhen Nancy saw him she took him to an alley where a few peple grabbed him and put him in a bag. Sikes tells Oliver if you escape or yell for help he will have his dog bite him. Oliver follows what they say an Fagin welcomes Oliver back to the "house" but then he saw the letters and thought oliver complained to the police about him. Fagin becameoutraged by that. the quotes showing this are " So you wanted to get away, my dear, did you", "Wanted to get assistance; called for the police; did you" and, "We'll cure you of that, my young master.".
In Chapter 17 Mr.Brownlaw is now searching to find Oliver by putting up a poster that he is missing. Mr.Bumble sees the poster and tries to convince Mr.Brownlaw that Oliver is a bad child.
James K
DeleteDavis Blanch
ReplyDeleteThrough the chapters, Oliver Twist gets caught while robbing a house and gets shot. Before that, he was coerced into robbing a house by sikes. Sikes said that if Oliver tries to escape or yell/ try and get out of robbing the house he would shoot him. Before the robbery, Oliver goes back to the pickpocket house and he is left forced to stay at the house while everyone else goes out and makes a profit.
In this section of Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist”, noticeably twice the usual length, details what became of Oliver Twist following his capture by Fagin and Bill Sikes, and the reemergence of Mr. Bumble as a threat to our protagonist’s well-being and happiness. The latter event occurs in Chapter 17, in which Mr. Bumble revisits the residence in Mrs. Mann, the place where Oliver spent the first ten miserable years of his life. We see in this chapter that Mrs. Mann still treats her kids like she did at the book’s beginning, and we once again see Oliver’s old friend Dick, who is, amazingly, not dead, though close to it. The sick child then expresses his wishes “to leave my dear love to poor Oliver Twist; and to let him know how often I have sat by myself and cried to think of his wandering about in the dark nights with nobody to help him. And I should like to tell him/that I was glad to die when I was very young; for, perhaps, if I had lived to be a man, and had grown old, my little sister who is in Heaven, might forget me, or be unlike me; and it would be so much happier if we were both children there together.” (172-173). Far from receiving the slightest bit of sympathy, Dick is harshly scolded by both adults for daring to be spoiled enough to want or wish for anything at all, and then the Beadle heads off to London. Mr. Brownlow and his fellowship make their only appearance in the reading at this point, as Mr. Bumble (after arriving in London) enters the home of Mr. Brownlow and tells the benevolent old gentleman his “true” history of Oliver Twist, and how the boy had throughout his childhood been nothing but a vile, ungrateful, malicious villain of a boy who had attacked the completely innocent Noah Claypole unprovoked and then fled the home of his kind masters the Sowerberrys, and had been on the run since. Though Mrs. Bedwin does not, Mr. Brownlow and Mr. Grimwig believe the beadle, thus destroying any chance Oliver had at the old gentleman rescuing him.
ReplyDeleteThe next two chapters focus more on Oliver and his current captors, Fagin and Mr. William Sikes, who decide in Chapter 19 that the boy should pass into the latter criminal’s possession. The following chapter, Chapter 20, is when this transaction takes place, and it starts with the protagonist’s waking up from bed and finding a new pair of shoes at his bedside, immediately letting him know that something about that day will be different. He quickly finds out that he is to pass to the incredibly intimidating Bill Sikes, and is very frightened by both the prospect of being under that villain’s “care” and Fagin’s tone when delivering that news. He was given a candle to light and a book to read by the old man, and stayed in one spot doing exactly as told out of fear. The book Oliver was given ended up having a great impact on the boy, as it detailed “dreadful crimes that made the blood run cold; of secret murders that had been committed by the lonely wayside; of bodies hidden from the eye of man in deep pits and wells/of men who, lying in their beds at dead of night, had been tempted (so they said) and led on, by their own bad thoughts, to such dreadful bloodshed as it made the flesh creep, and the limbs quail, to think of. The terrible descriptions were so real and vivid, that the sallow pages seemed to turn red with gore” (196). The young Twist is so horribly appalled that anyone could think of doing such things, and, when Nancy arrives, is praying fervently that he will not have to follow this same path. Nancy reveals that she has come on behalf of Bill, and makes it very clear that she does not want to do what she is. Oliver considers asking her to help him escape, but, knowing what he is thinking, Nancy reluctantly says that this is not the time. And so our young hero passes into the possession of Mr. Sikes, with whom Oliver spends the night before the chapter concludes with the villain taking Oliver out on the day’s exploits, whatever they may be.
^Lucas Kaufman (Part I)
DeleteLucas Kaufman (Part II)
ReplyDeleteBy Chapter 24, the focus has shifted to Mrs. Corney, the chief nurse (or matron) of a workhouse, who at the start of the chapter has just wrapped up tea time with Mr. Bumble when she receives word that Old Sally, presumably one of the other nurses, is dying and has requested to speak with her before she dies. An annoyed Corney complies, but finds the dying woman asleep, with low odds of waking up. Two old women, the closest friends of the soon-to-be-deceased, are at her bedside conversing when Old Sally awakes. The sick (and likely drunk) old woman then pulls Mrs. Corney into a chair and gets her old friends to leave, so she can converse with the matron in solitude. The woman then begins to speak, and the reader sees how this chapter, which seems to be just filler, suddenly becomes quite relevant. As it turns out, Old Sally had nursed the infant Oliver Twist shortly after his birth, and had been present when his mother died. With even more significance comes the reveal that the old woman had stolen from the late “Mrs. Twist” a substantial amount of gold, which could have saved her, but more importantly means that Oliver Twist, a poor, nameless orphan boy who had not known anything but starvation and cruelty in all his ten years, had been born into wealth, suddenly revealing the irony in Charles Dickens’ words in the very first chapter, regarding Oliver’s birth: “If, during this brief period, Oliver had been surrounded by careful grandmothers, anxious aunts, experienced nurses, and doctors of profound wisdom, he would most inevitably and indubitably have been killed in no time. There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a parish surgeon who did such matters by contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them.” (45-46).