Reading report: Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist is the most famous novel of Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens wrote a great many novels, such as David Copperfield, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol and etc. In my opinion, Dickens was not just writing a story of the characters in the novels, but also writing stories about his own life. As a result, every time I read his stories, I would have a complicated feeling in my heart, especially when the day was raining or winding. I felt I was the hero in his book—laughing and crying, happy or sad. Every feeling was so true that I could not even realize my existence. There was a wise person once said: “The greatest writer uses a pen, which dose not use ink but uses his own blood. Just like a great musician, every beautiful melody is from the bottom of his heart." I thought I would cry to read this book: Oliver Twist,but it turned out to be totally wrong. I didn’t even cry a tear for Oliver. My friends due this to my carelessness in reading this book and my growing up without true emotions. I really don’t think so. The only reason I could accept is that I am always confident in this little boy who will grow up into a great man—Oliver Twist. With this confidence, I lived my life as a freshman. I felt puzzled and unhappy sometimes, but Oliver was still right there for me. If he could get over the great sadness, why can’t I?
Dickens has made a child in the center of this novel, and through what has happened to the boy, is trying to show the readers a true picture of the real life of the common people in the nineteenth century England. In other words, he showed his life to me through Oliver. He put all his love in this little boy. About the book, he once said, “ I have perhaps the best subject I have ever thought of. I have thrown my whole heart into Oliver. I wished to show, in little Oliver, the principle of Good surviving through every adverse circumstance, and triumphing at last.” Reading the book, I found delightedly and understood the meaning of a proverb—Every coin has two sides.
Just like the famous saying of a movie: Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you gonna get next. That’s right. Oliver is certainly miserable to live his childhood, born and brought in the terrible workhouse, expelled for asking for more food. He fell into the Fagin’s gang and become part of the criminal underworld where he learned how to acquire the art of survival in a pitiless world. However, it showed us a realistic picture, as well as a bitter indictment, of a hypocritical society in which poverty reduces the human spirit. With this consciousness, Oliver grew up day by day. I as a reader, also learned something from this miserable feeling. “ It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour.”
I was deeply moved by some words in this book full of tears. “There was such peace and beauty in the scene; swak so much of brightness and mirth in the sunny landscape; such blithesome music in the songs of the summer birds; such freedom in the rapid flight of the rock, careering overhead; so much of life and joyousness in all; that, when the boy raised his aching eyes and looked about, the thought instinctively occurred to him—that this was not a time for death; that rose could never die when humbler things were all so glad and gay; thay graves were for cold and cheerless winter, not for sunlight and fragrance.” The picture was so lively. I could even feel the true sad feelings occupied the room of my heart. I still knew something was destined by God, just like little Oliver’s miserable life. But there was still some happiness in his life, which should be cherished.
In this darkness, I heard somebody say: “I offer you, now, no distinction among a bustling crowd; no mingling with a world of malice and detraction, where the blood is called into honest cheeks by aught but real disgrace and shame.” Anytime for Oliver also for Dickens, he never forgot his dream, so he pursued it no matter where he was and what kind of life he was living. In this kind of bad situations, he found his value and always kept to it.
I love the book Oliver Twist, not because I have some compassion towards little Oliver twist, but for this reason I want to get closer to the life with a so-called miserable person and learn from him—that is – not every stumble is meaningless. You cannot grow up if you have every wish come true. Poor Oliver, also great Oliver.
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