Cleo

=﻿Cleo's Reading Log=

**SPOILER ALERT!!!**
So far, I have read chapters one through twenty-four. Contrary to popular beleif, I really like this book! However, sometimes it is easy to predict what happens next. I think this would be a better read if it had better surprises. For example, when Oliver steps out of the protection of Mr. Brownlow's home, he is immedietly kidnapped and taken back to Fagin. It was easy to predict that would happen. Anyways, the reason I like this book is because it has so many neat characters that bring out the extremes in our society. The book has you laughing on one page, and close to tears the next. The reason why I think people don't like this book is because it is difficult to read. I do agree with them, however if you take your time a brilliant story leaps from the page.

Looking back to the beginning of the story, I think the key event that triggered this whole plot was poor little Oliver asking for more food. If another little boy had been chosen to do the deed, Oliver would never have been sent outside of the orphanige

ENTRY TWO:
So far, I have read chapters one through thirty-eight. Like I said previously,I love this book! Another reason why I do is because it is funny. For example, when Mr. Bumble marries that lady (or has just met her) their interaction is hilarious! First of all, Mr. Bumble is a fat Beadle, so it is hard to imagine him being romantic with a woman. Even on their first visit Mr. Bumble gives her a big kiss, then promptly asks her to marry him. That is totally ironic, which makes it funny.

After just two months of their marriage, the once Beadle is kicked out of his home. Which was very foreseeable. During that event Charles Dickens reveals that Mr.Bumble is masogynistic on top of it all. That makes me hate him even more.