Oliver Twist Chapter 2

1. Oliver´s first job

2. Oliver stayed prisioner alone in the dark room for a week. He cried bitterly all day,
and when the long night came, he spread his little hands over his eyes to shut out the
darknes, and try to sleep.

3. One day Mr Bumble met the local undertaker, Mr Soweberry, outside the
worhouse.
Mr Sowerberry rubbed his chin and thought for a while he said i pay enough for the
poor with my taxes.

5. Oliver slept there among the coffins. He trembled
at the thought of ghosts. His bed was a small hole
in the floor, and looked very like a grave.
He felt very lonely, with no friends and no one to
take care for him.

6. “Did you want a
coffin?” Asked
Oliver.
You´ll be needing a coffin
soon, Workhouse, if you
make jokes like that! I´m
Mister Noah Claypole, and
you´re working under
me!...”

7. “All his relations have already left him (Oliver) alone. His mother and his father aren´t going to interfere
with him!” Said Charlotte.
Charlotte and Noah both started laughing loudly. Oliver sat alone in the corner eating old bits of bread.

8. Mr. Sowerberry decided that Oliver must work by his side.
His first working experience was very dramatic, due to the fact that he saw an extremely por woman who
had died of hunger.
Mr. Sowerberry and 0liver went to collect dead bodies from houses and accompanied the coffins to their
funerals.
Oliver´s permanent expression of sadness was very suitable for his job.

9. They found the right house, and climbed
the dark stairs to a miserable little room. A
man and an old woman stood near the
body. Oliver was afraid to look at them
with their thin faces and sharp teeth, they
looked like the rats he had seen outside.

10. "Not very
much, sir." "You'll get
used to it,
my boy"
It was only a job, after all…
-"So how did you like it, Oliver?“- asked Sowerberry later, as they walked home.