In Chapters 43-45, Noah arrives at The Artful Dodger's trial, the boy who introduced Oliver to Fagin, to inform Fagin of the outcome. When Fagin is over Sikes' house, Nancy tries to leave, but Sikes locks her in a room. When Sikes leaves, Fagin tries to help Nancy by giving her ideas. Fagin pays Noah to follow Nancy one night to see what she is up to.
In Chapters 46-49, Nancy, Rose, and Mr. Brownlow meet on a bridge to discuss helping Oliver. They make a plan to get Monks and make Monks tell them the truth. When Noah tells Sikes what Nancy has been up to, he rushes home and beats her to death. Sikes goes to London, trying to avoid the police. Sikes is paranoid that everyone is talking about the murder, even in London. Sikes tries to drown his dog, thinking that the dog will get him in trouble, but the dog gets away. Nancy and the group eventually capture Monks and bring him to Mr. Brownlow's home where they find out about Oliver's parents and history.
In Chapters 50-53, Sikes is cornered and tries to escape by lowering himself with a rope from a building. It fails and he falls, getting his neck caught in the rope, strangling himself to death. Oliver finds out that his dad was Mr. Leeford and was mother is Agnes Fleming. He and his friends travel to where he was born. Fagin is sent to death for his crimes and reveals where the papers that prove Oliver's identity are.
Oliver ends up living a great life at the end of the story. He continued to live even though he had no reason to. besides the search for his identity, showing true will to live. Oliver Twist shows that crime may pay off in the beginning, but you will eventually pay for the looting and conniving you end up doing. Oliver went from a criminal trying to stay alive, to someone of status, who could live nicely on their own. Noah was almost the exact opposite of Oliver's nice character, but ended up being let off the hook for his crimes by helping to convict Fagin. Oliver Twist has shown the difference between a criminal mind, and the mind of someone pushed into the criminal life.
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Dennis,
Your entries are fine. They get the job done.
I would have liked to see you react and reflect a bit more. You relied on summary for the majority of your entries, devoting only a brief paragraph at the end of each entry to reaction and reflection.
It really should have been the opposite: one paragraph summary and two-three of reaction and reflection.
You raised an interesting point in your second entry, for example, about the use of the Jewish stereotype, but you did little other than just state that the Jewish stereotype is there. What does this suggest about the time period? About England? About Dickens? About Oliver? You left many questions unanswered.
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