Sunday, September 27, 2009


It is extremely sad and painful seeing people which do not have anything to eat daily, or any decent place to live in. Oliver was just one of millions of little kids that are alone living in terrible conditions. This was a very common situation during this period, due to the fact that a third of urban population lived in poverty.

From my point of view, in this book Dickens wrote from hi heart because he also suffered a poor life when he was a child and his father was in prison. Oliver Twist was a boy that did not choose to have the kind of life that he was living. I am a believer that nobody deserves to be alone in this world and punished all the time as Oliver was. As it is known the Victorian time involves progress, and I think that progress also involves ambition. As we can notice all the people around Oliver was ambitious and maybe this was because of the progress that society was suffering.

As teachers, we can be the support of thousand of Oliver Twists that probably we will face in the future. Our main objective must be the inclusion of these kinds of kids to the society as persons more than as employers. Teachers can be the rescuers of bad influenced or wrong adviced children that are in places they do not want to or doing things that they disapprove.

1 comment:

Clau said...

well done!!!
you're right when you mentioned progress is synonym of ambition, but don't forget about the good people who "saved" Oliver from a cruel destiny...and as teacher we have a huge responsibility to be like Mr. Brownlow and provide opportunities to our future students...


take care,

claudia