Dickens Use Of Effective Language In Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens

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Register to read the introduction… The reader is able to ‘see' Oliver, and ‘feel' the lonliness because Dickens puts so much detailing into his work.The next morning, Mr. Gamfield, the chimney sweep rides down the high street and stops at the workhouse gates and reads the bill, which declares there is a boy for sale, and £5.00 will be given to the person who takes him. Said boy, is, of course, Oliver Twist. When Mr. Gamfield inquires about Oliver, he is refused permission to take him, as he wants to use him as an apprentice to clean chimneys, which the board thinks is a nasty trade. When Oliver is brought in, he breaks down in tears. "Oliver fell on his knees, and clasping his hands together, prayed that they would order him back to the dark room – that they would starve him – beat him – kill him if they pleased – rather than send him away with that dreadful man." And they do. "Take the boy back to the workhouse and treat him kindly – he seems to want …show more content…
For example, when Oliver asked for more, instead of just writing. ‘Oliver did the unacceptable thing of asking for more', he exaggerates to indicate just how unusual and unthinkable this action was. This quote indicates the overstatement in his writing;
"For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more".
This tells the reader that not only was the action wrong in the Master's eyes, but that it was completely wrong. I'm not sure whether the boys intended to get Oliver into that much trouble, but I think that everyone in the workhouse would realise the aftermath of asking for more. Maybe the boys at his table just wanted him to get told off, and didn't realise that just asking for more would result in such violence and abuse as Oliver suffered. Oliver thought nothing of the request; he was probably hungry on the amount and type of food that the children are fed by the workhouse.
I think that Dickens' intentions in writing Oliver Twist were to influence life in his generation. Although he knew that he couldn't really change anything, he wanted to make an impact on some people's lives, to make them think about the rules of regulations of their
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Although he didn't actually force any changes in the world, he may have helped with a few. He didn't specifically say ‘You have to change this! And that! And this!' But he made comments about them, saying that they weren't right and should be changed. So I think that because of his writing, Charles Dickens did make a difference to the way the country and the world works, in a hidden and unrecognised

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