“The sun,–the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man–burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.” “Please, sir, I want some more.”

“Please, sir, I want some more.” The master was a fat, healthy man; but he turned very pale. He gazed in stupefied astonishment on the small rebel for some seconds, and then clung for support to the copper. The assistants were paralysed with wonder; the boys with fear.

Oliver is a young, good-hearted, and kind–but often mistreated–orphan who is raised in a workhouse, and finds himself indentured to an undertaker, living with thieves, and eventually taken in by the kind Mr. Brownlow and Mrs. Maylie.

By Chapter 37 Bumble has been married for two months and is no longer beadle but is now Master of the workhouse; however, he is not happy with his more advanced situation.

Bumble relates how Old Sally robbed Oliver’s mother. Mrs. Bumble says she discovered a ragged pawnbroker’s receipt in Old Sally’s dead hands and that she redeemed it for the gold locket, which she then hands to Monks. Monks ties the locket to a weight and drops it into the river.

Edward “Monks” Leeford is a character in the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. He is actually the criminally-inclined half-brother of Oliver Twist, but he hides his identity. Monks’ parents separated when he was a child, and his father had a relationship with a young woman, Agnes Fleming.

Nancy is a fictional character in the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens and its several adaptations for theatre, television and films. She is a member of Fagin’s gang and the lover, and eventual victim, of Bill Sikes.

Dormitories were usually provided with chamber pots, or a communal ‘tub’. After 1860, some workhouses experimented with earth closets — boxes containing dry soil which could afterwards be used as fertiliser.

Dickens began writing Oliver Twist after the adoption of the Poor Law of 1834, which halted government payments to the able-bodied poor unless they entered workhouses. Thus, Oliver Twist became a vehicle for social criticism aimed directly at the problem of poverty in 19th-century London.

Pinterest. “Please, sir, I want some more” is a famous quote from Oliver Twist as he asks the cook at the workhouse for more gruel. The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in a workhouse and is then apprenticed with an undertaker.

The primary reason that Oliver asks for more gruel (which is similar to oatmeal) is because he is hungry. The board members of the workhouse where Oliver lives meet and decide that “the poor people like” the room and board they receive.

(sparknotes) this is one of the best Christmas stories ever told if not the best. Oliver Twist is a story of a child who spent the first nine years of his life in a grungy, awful foster home for young orphans. Oliver is then transferred to a workhouse for adults where he was bullied by the others.

His friend Nancy tolerates his violent behaviour, because she is scared of him. However, when he thinks Nancy has betrayed him, Sikes viciously murders her. After police identify him as travelling with a dog, Sikes attempts to drown Bull’s-eye to rid himself of his companion.

Answer. The boy’s face seems horrible as it was having no features no eyes,ears ,nose or mouth….

(v) How did Mr Oliver react when he saw the face of the boy ? Answer: Mr Oliver got frightened and the torch fell down from his trembling hand. He got nervous and ran blindly through the trees and called for help. His head hung down, he held his face in his hands, and his body shook convulsively.

courageous man

Ruskin Bond says “if you could call it a face” because the face which she saw in the Woody forest in the dark was something very eerie and strange.

He was shocked to see the boy without eyes nose ears and no other feature. His torch fell from his trembling hand. He turned and scrambled down the street, and started calling for help.