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Oliver Twist Character Analysis

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In both passages the characters show a characterasation from them selfs by their diologue for example on the passage "Oliver Twist" written by Charles Dickens showed bravery and In the passage "From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" wriiten by James Joyce shows curiosity. Both characters come from the same place a orphanage so they both show similar characteristics. As the author's both have a similar idea of the passages both of their main characters are different. In the passage "Oliver Twist" is a small boy living in a orphanage who is suffering and i can infer this because in the passage it states "The room in which the boys were fed, was a large stone hall, with a copper at one end: out of which the master, dressed in an …show more content…

Wells turned to the other fellows and said: I say, here's a fellow says he kisses his mother every night before he goes to bed. The other fellows stopped their game and turned around, laughing.I do not. Wells said: I say, here's a fellow says he doesn't kiss his mother before he goes to bed.They all laughed again. Stephen tried to laugh with them. He felt his whole body hot and confused in a moment. What was the right answer to the question? He had given two and still Wells laughed at him. But Wells must know the right answer, for he was an older student." This explains that the character stephen was a very confused boy because all he wanted to do is fit in but all the other boys made fun of him so he had a lot of curiosity. Also it states "He drank another cup of hot tea and Fleming said: What's up? Have you a pain or what's up with you? I don't know, Stephen said. Sick in your breadbasket, Fleming said, because your face looks white. It will go away. Oh, yes, Stephen said." This shows that stephen is not very social by the way he talks he is a very shy person as shown when he responds back to Fleming. So both authors were having the same idea where the setting the characters mood and other aspects of the story. Both characters were living the same glommy lifes but both of their characterization was different. For example in Oliver Twist oliver was brave when he was up for the challenge and going against the food rule and asked for more like the the

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