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Alina Bughesiu · Trimis: 04/02/2015 18:32 Titlul subiectului: G. Oliver Twist

Although I am not disposed to maintain that the being born in a workhouse, is in itself the most fortunate and enviable circumstance that can possibly befall a human being, I do mean to say that in this particular instance, it was the best thing for Oliver Twist that could by possibility have occurred. The fact is, that there was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver to take upon himself the office of respiration,�a troublesome practice, but one which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence; and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next: the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter.

(Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, fragment from the first chapter)

befall = happen to
gasping = breathing loudly and with difficulty, trying to get more air
flock = clumpy woolen fibres used for filling objects (such as cushions and mattresses)
poised = suspended
the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter = in plain English, this means that Oliver Twist was in such poor health (after just being born) that there seemed to be more chances for him to die than to survive.

G1. Write a paragraph to continue the story in the fragment above. In your text, try to do the following:

(a) Make the narrator self-reflexive or self-conscious (whichever you find easier);
(b) Make the narrator unreliable;
(c) Try to write a text that is an example of (ascending or descending) metalepsis.

Alexandra David Patricia · Trimis: 22/02/2015 12:53 Titlul subiectului:

b-perhaps the other world, the unseen, will put its mark on the life of Oliver .oliver can not break away from the world he just left it to enter into a world where his chances are endangered.The curse affects hishealth.Living in a workhouse. this thing , being one of the common people will protect his identity and the ancestors will notk now about his existence . Only woman who knows about him is gradmother , a ghost with pale face, whose purpose is to protect all this children like Oliver .

Alexandra David Patricia · Trimis: 22/02/2015 15:37 Titlul subiectului:

I've been drinking a lot and I'm wondering... Oliver, my dearest of all my characters, how would you like to evolve in this novel? Would you like to become smarter and smarter with each chapter? Oh, look, i've even made a rhyme here. What a good narrator I am! Hahah. Your portrait should aspire to perfection. Your traits should be better than the ones of my others previous characters. I want to by proud of you. Just let me drink one more bottle to get more inspiration.