Oliver Twist

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        In Chapter 47 ‘Fatal Consequences’ Charles Dickens creates tension and pear in the extract.

        Dickens immediately begins by setting the scene with ‘it was nearly two hours before day break’ also he uses alliteration like ‘sounds appear to slumber’ and ‘streets are silent’ and ‘still and silent’, this is a description of the streets outside.

              Dickens calls chapter 47 ‘Fatal Consequences’ meaning that there will be something important or bad is going to happen.

        We can tell that the story was set a couple of hundred years ago because one idea is the sentence lengths are a paragraph long and another idea is the objects named like the ‘hearth’ which is a fire place. The place were Fagin lives, sounds remotely disgusting and not suitable to be living in, Dickens describes this as a ‘lair’.

        At the beginning of this chapter Fagin is watching from his ‘lair’ and he is anxiously waiting for Sikes to come back from a ‘job’.

        Straight away Fagin is made to seem like a manipulating, boy stress person and he is described as an animal like, when he is watching from the ‘lair’, animals have lairs, this makes him sound suspicious and plotting, just like an animal waiting to pounce on his pray.

        He is waiting for Sikes to come back from one of Fagin’s ‘jobs’, this make it seem that Fagin controls bill, that he has him in the palm of his hand.

        These ideas make us feel suspicious about Fagin, the way he is old and weak but yet he can control people around him. Even the way Fagin moves sound menacing like when he ‘crept upstairs’. He is described as an animal by the words ‘toothless gums a few such as fangs as should have been a dog’s or rats.’

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        Dickens tells us that Fagin thinks about himself and no one else because his mind is full of greed, he feeds the orphans ‘rotten sausage’ and he has his chest of gold. Dickens describes him as a mouser.

        The furniture in the room is described as old, tacky objects, which have most likely to have been stolen. It makes the orphans sound like they are living in a dump, but in them days it was more of a luxury than a dump. Also the things that Fagin provides them with ‘old torn coverlets’ and ‘a long burnt, greasy candle’ dickens ...

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