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GHERIANY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS

British School
Academic Year 2023-2024
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Oliver Twist
Chapter (11)
Summary:

The policeman walks Oliver to the magistrate's office, along with the old gentleman.
Questioned by a guard at the magistrate's gate, however, the old gentleman says he is not
sure that Oliver actually stole the handkerchief—it could have been someone else—and he
says he does not want to press charges. But the guard says it is too late at this point; they
must see the magistrate about the case.

Oliver is thrown into a cell, and the old gentleman looks at him as this is being done; he
swears he has seen something like Oliver's face before, but he does not know how or why,
nor can he place the face that resembles Oliver's. He is tapped on the shoulder and led by
the guard into the office of Mr. Fang, the district magistrate.

An angry and cruel man, Mr. Fang rules over his courtroom with an iron fist. The old
gentleman explains that his name is Brownlow, but before he is allowed to narrate the
events of the case—and to plead on Oliver's behalf, since he now thinks Oliver is innocent
of the crime—Fang demands that the policeman describe the theft. The policeman must
admit, after repeating the sequence of events, that the handkerchief was not found on Oliver,
and no one actually witnessed Oliver taking it from Brownlow.

Brownlow tells Fang he is worried that Oliver has been injured by the crowd's beating after
the "theft." Fang doesn't listen, and asks Oliver to describe the theft himself. A clerk standing
nearby attempts to hear Oliver's words, which are mumbled softly (as Oliver does appear
quite ill); the clerk ventures that the boy's name is Tom White (because he cannot hear
Oliver speak), and guesses, correctly, that Oliver is an orphan with no permanent home.
Fang, believing he has heard enough, sentences Oliver "summarily" to three months' hard
labor.
GHERIANY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS
British School
Academic Year 2023-2024
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Analysis:

Brownlow realizes, just by looking at Oliver, that Oliver has the appearance of an honest boy.
This is in marked contrast to others in Oliver's life (Bumble, those on the board of the
workhouse) who look at Oliver and see only a vicious, lying scoundrel.

Answer the following questions:


1-“What is this? Who is this?Turn this man out.Clear office”. Comment.
2-Who is Fang?What did he do with Oliver?
3- Oliver appeared quite ill in the court..Discuss..

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