Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
1. Sometimes we are pulled toward one or two characters I the story. We identify with them of feel sympathy for them. With which characters do you identify in the book, and why do you believe you identify with them?
When reading the Oliver Twist I saw that there many characters, but one of them made me pay more attention. That is Nancy, one of the women in the Fagin’s room. She must always obey to Sikes like “a lamp”. She saw that Oliver was badly treated, and he was so many times caught by them to make him do bad things. These things led she make a hard decision that could take her life away. One day, she came to meet Miss Maylie to ask her helping Oliver. That meant she was doing opposite to Sikes, a cruel men. And finally, she was killed by him. That was such a great grief result. A woman just wanted to live better and give up her sinful life before, but what happened with her! In every man always exist on bad and good things. When she realized that she must do something good to Oliver as well as to have a clear conscience and that was the last day of her life. How pitiful she was!

2. Why do you think the author wrote this story? Where did he or she get the idea or the characters? What message do you think the author is trying to share?

Some of reasons I think Charles Dickens wrote this story are to describing partly the London scenes, London character at that time and to sympathize with the poor people especially the street child.
He might get the idea or the characters of his story by the time, he met people – the man he worked for and the boy he worked with, he had learnt many things about life in London at that time. Because he had lived a hard life when his father was in prison, he must earn money to alive. His education was interrupted. So he understood the poor and lower class better than anyone else.
I think through this story, Charles Dickens wanted to share the idea that even though the life hardly overcome and some of man is so bad or cruel; there are still kind-heart, gracious or good people and the justice is always being.