Oliver Twist Conflicts

           Conflicts are what keep a person reading a book and without conflicts a story would be very boring. There are four types of conflicts man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. society, and man vs. nature. During this exercise I give examples of two conflicts from Oliver Twist and then explain.

Man vs. Society

1) Man vs. Society- During the story Oliver is judged by the way he looks, for example, the time during chapter 14 when Mr. Grimwig comes in and just seeing how he looks he makes a judgement of Oliver.

Man vs. Nature

2) Man vs. Nature- Oliver is constantly in a state of life or death situations throughout the whole story. An example of this is when Oliver gets the fever and gets severly ill, but with the help of some new friends he pulls through.

Oliver Twist Chapter 4 Sparknotes vs Reading

           During English class today we went over chapter 4 in "Oliver Twist" and then we compared what we came up with in class to the Sparknotes version. In this exercise I realized how useful each way was and also some of the flaws of both. 

           Sparknotes had a lot of the content that we came up from the reading but it wasn't as detailed, which makes it harder to understand what is going on. I don't think it gives you enough details about the chapter, but it does give you the main points. One thing good about Sparknotes is the readability, because it is so much easier to read than the book. A downside about it is all the ads. I most of the time get annoyed with sites that have ads all over the place and on accidently click an ad. It wastes time when you are reading. The only reason I would use Sparknotes is if I forgot to read the night before and needed to catch up fast.

           Over all I personally will stick to reading the book the old fashion way, because reading a book gives you self-accomplishment.

Victorian Era Themes

   Introduction     

           After watching the videos I now realize that there were many different themes in the Victorian Era. At first they had a rocky start, but after awhile it was smooth sailing. During this time the Victorians made many big changes, like moving from the country to the city. They also made many different improvements.

Themes

1) One theme was the hardship, for example, the working conditions for the poor in the workhouses was horrible. Families where separated many times and put into different rooms. In fact once a 5 month old baby was kept from its mother and would occasionally see its mother for feeding.

2)Another theme was the improvements. There was a time when the cities river smelled horrible because the sewage that was poured into it. The Victorians took this problem head on and the solution was the use of marvelous sewage systems. During these time many machines were invented to make manufacturing items more efficient and faster.

3)The final them is trickery because their were a lot of people tricking people. Most time artist would make there paintings look more cheered up from the original. Just so they could sell their paintings to the rich to make money. There were many people that would trick people out of money.

Victorian Era Rules to Make Poor Equal

           In the Victorian era there were many differences between the poor and the rich. In class we are acting as beadle's making the rules to solve this major problem. The task at hand was to make 3-4 rules that would make the poor and the rich more equal because both have little in common.

The rules are as follows:
1) Living Arrangements-People are to have 2 more rooms than how many people live in the house.
2)Education-Rich or Poor everyone gets an equal chance to get to a education.
3)Jobs-Everyone is to try to get a job even if they have disabilities and could be as simple as greeting people or working from a computer.