Suffering in Charles Dickens Oliver Twist and James Watsons Talking in Whispers :: English Literature

Suffering in Charles Dickens Oliver Twist and James Watsons Talking in WhispersI am going to explore the ways in which human vile is portrayedin Charles Dickens Oliver Twist and James Watsons Talking inWhispers. I am also going to explore the ways in which sympathy iscreated for the characters Oliver Twist and Andres Larreta. Withconsideration of Oliver Twists and Andres Larretas suffering I amgoing to see if they can be considered as heroes. I am going to do allof this by analysing areas of the novels, Oliver Twist and Talkingin Whispers.Oliver Twist and Andres Larreta some(prenominal) contract a great deal ofsuffering. They stimulate physical, emotional and mental suffering.The societies in which they are a part of also suffer. The sufferingof society in both novels Oliver Twist and Talking in Whispers arecaused by the authorities. However, the society in Talking inWhispers seems to be much bigger than the society that comes acrossin Oliver Twist. I think this is because Oliver Twist is primarily almost the life of Oliver Twist and how he reunites with some of hisrelatives, whereas Talking in Whispers mainly focuses on AndresLarretas life and Chile under dictatorship. It also has lots ofinformation about the Chileans as a whole. Both characters AndresLarreta and Oliver Twist possess heroic qualities. I believe they areboth heroes for surviving the suffering they had received.Oliver Twist and Andres Larreta both experience physical and emotionalsuffering. Oliver Twist is a young child, below the age of 10 years.He experiences a great deal of physical suffering. Oliver experiencesabuse at the workhouse. He was very poor and had little food, whichmade him empty. He had to work to stay alive. Although his work onlyearned him just about enough to survive. The hungry and destitutesituation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouseauthorities. The author Charles Dickens states that Oliver is hungryand is in a poor situation. Another congresswoman of physical sufferingOliver experiences, is the beating he receives after he has a fightwith Noah. Olivers clothes had been torn in the beating he hadreceived his reckon was bruised and scratched and his hair scatteredover his forehead. Dickens describes his condition and implies to thereader that his beating was rough, violent and severe. He makes thereader sympathise with Oliver. Not only is this physical suffering forOliver, but for a child as young as Oliver it is also emotionalsuffering. It leads him to believe nobody cares for him and that he is