Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Oliver Twist - Book the First, Chapter the Fifth

I'm sorry I didn't post yesterday! Unexpected engagements popped up.
Oliver mingles with new Associates, and, Going to a Funeral for the first time, forms an unfavourable Notion of his Master's Business
Oliver (who's still only 8 I'm pretty sure) is now scared that there might be monsters in the coffins.
Terrifying.
Ok, he's actually eleven, and now some new random is going to beat him up
:(

He's called Noah, and he's Oliver's new boss. Charlotte (Noah's boss's wife?) tells Noah to leave Oliver alone, to which Noah replies that Oliver's parents have left Oliver alone his entire life. Charlotte and Noah share 'a hearty laugh'.

whyyyyyyyy

Okay, now Oliver is to become a 'mute' for children: someone who stands silently during children's funerals. Mr Bumble (who seems to keep cropping up) supplies Mr Sowerberry with the details of a recent death so he can arrange a funeral.

Dickens is throwing this anti-establishment message at us pretty hard, isn't he? The worst part is that the poverty isn't exaggerated :s

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