It was a dark and dreary night. Oliver, who was 11 years of age, and his family, including cousins, aunts, and uncles, were having a prodigious dinner on the 9th of April, 1932. Oliver’s family lived very close to the urban society and they possessed a couple horses, at the stables a mile outside of their home, due to the fact that there were laws preventing families to have non-domestic animals in the city. His family has been always close, however Oliver felt disparate from his family. Although, he never tried to interact with his family, because his family would belittle everything he did. He would speak his mind on a certain topic, but his family would disregard his thoughts towards the subject, thus making him an outsider when accompanying …show more content…
He was bewildered and he ran to his collapsed, burning home screaming, “MOM----DAD----” Oliver heard the siren’s sonance in the distance. As the fire trucks were speeding down the street to try and quickly put out the fire, Oliver just stared at his burning home for a moment then soon left the scene. When the fire trucks pulled into Oliver’s ash filled yard, he was already gone, as he walked into the dark abyss of the street, while his mind dwelled with the thoughts and memories of his family. This was a night that Oliver would never …show more content…
The policeman was shocked, He checked his other pocket and found a notebook. The policemen decided to take a glance in the notebook, out of pure curiosity, and found that Oliver had been writing about his family. He was disturbed by what he read, Oliver talked about his experience with domestic abuse. Then the policeman decided to go to the date, where his family died and the day after the incident, April 9th and 10th of 1932, to see his view. On April 9th, Oliver wrote,” I’m weary of my family’s mental and physical abuse against me, I wish it would cease. ” Then the Policeman turned to the following page, which was the day after his family died, April 10th, 1932. On April 10th, Oliver wrote,” I saw the chance and I took it, I killed my family. They sent me out to tend the horses and I foresaw my chance. When I left the building, I took a lot of dry wood and cloth and set it against our home. I then took some flint and steel from our house, which we used to start fires in our chimney, and set our home on fire. Yes, I killed my family, and I might regret it later on, but I will not get beaten another day”. The Policeman was astounded and never reported any evidence; he wanted to make Oliver remembered as a person in great despair and not a murderer. So the Policeman went home and burned the note and
Moments later we got to the camp and we saw some people dead and some people crying. We go up to the people crying and they told us that the everyone was dead back at the ghetto. I felt my heart drop to my stomach, I fell on my knees and started balling my eyes out. I ran to the tent and Ethan tried to comfort me, but I was too busy thinking about my dad, if your wonder my mom left us when i was a baby so my dad took care of me. “Dezirae,” Ethan acknowledged.
Oliver runs outside in humiliation and decides to destroy the school but his dad stops him by saying, “‘It takes a lot of courage to run for office, to get up in front of everyone like that. And you... Well, I’ll tell you what.... I am proud of you’” (302).
Many times Sikes uses his words to hurt someone including children and his dog, Bullseye. Other times he uses physical actions to hurt individuals. In the novel Bill Sikes unable ability to control his anger is shown multiple times including when Nancy found Oliver and they kidnapped him, the time Sikes used Oliver to rob a house, and at the end of the novel when he murdered Nancy. At the time the novel Oliver Twist was written animal abuse
They were scared to open it, but eventually they did, to see Oliver. Mr. Giles dragged him in and deposited him. A woman inquired whether Oliver was hurt and told them to treat him well. Chapter
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Therefore, his character is forced to continue his source for isolation. Leaving his family must have been hard; it would be
Overall, in the contrasting tones it is clear what Oliver was more passionate about. If you do what you’re passionate about, if you’re happy with what you’ve accomplished, then that’s true
Robert implores Oliver to survive, and return to Starling City in order right his wrongs.
This is shocking because this isn’t how Oliver’s relationships usually are. It turns out that Oliver fears being rejected by Jenny because he has never felt this way before. Oliver does not give much away to his roommate, but this doesn’t mean his roommate doesn’t suspect anything. This proves that their relationship got more physical as time went by. Their relationship takes a large step in chapter 7 when Oliver takes Jenny to meet his parents.
“The girl was running. Running for her life, in the hope of finding a safe haven for her and her family. She never looks back, the only indication her father was still behind her was his ragged breathing above her head, forming puffs of air in this cold morning. She suddenly stumbles on a root, but her mother secures her fall with a small wisp of air. They lock hands, all three of them, and continue pushing themselves, desperately trying to find the others they lost on the way.
With the writer remembering him with the short time that he had with his father and didn’t understand how people who knew his father can talk to well of him. The writer knew his father as someone who wasn’t good at showing love to his own family. In addition,
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