English QUIZ Oliver Twist/Charles Dickens 31122024 Tue

 English QUIZ

Oliver Twist/Charles Dickens

31122024 Tue

“That boy will be hung”

A famous sentence from a famous novel of 19th

Century

Who said this, under what circumstances?

Which novel , who is the author?

Answer:

The sentence is from

Oliver Twist ,a novel by

Charles Dickens,

published in 1838.

The novel was the first of the author’s works to realistically depict the impoverished London underworld and to illustrate his belief that poverty leads to crime

I try to explain the sentence in a nutshell

Oliver, born as an orphan is brught up in an orvvphanage where the food is magre .

Compelled by other inmates of orphanage, Oliver asks for more

“Please Sir , I want some more”

Has become the moat famous sentence in the novel. So also, the scene “oliver asks for more”

The man serving the food gets attuned and it is viewed as a serious ,unpardonable crime

The matter is reported to the governing board where

That boy will be hung,' said the gentleman in the white waist coat. 'I “know that boy will be hung.Nobody contradicted the prophetic gentleman's opinion. An excited discussion took place. Oliver was

ordered into instant confinement' and a bill was next morning pasted on the outside of the gate, offering a

reward of five pounds to anybody who would take Oliver Twist off the hands of the parish. In other

words, five pounds and Oliver Twist were offered to any man or woman who wanted an apprentice to

any trade, business, or calling”

Greetings and congratulations to those who sent correct answers (Some were partial, some almost full and full-I give below all names)

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Tamil film அனாதை ஆனந்தன் (jyalalitha , AVM Rajan ) is based on OLiver Twist)

Let us meet tomorrow by His Grace

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