oliver twist,,,do u know the first lines of the novel! why consider it creative?

Answer 1

Dickens was a wonderful writer. I enjoyed many of his works when I was in school. But his style was suited to a different day, a time before radio and TV and movies and the Internet. It almost seems like people moved and thought in slow-motion in those days. When they spoke, or wrote, it's almost like they tried to use just as many words as they could. At least compared to today.

(Unfortunately, I use too many words too, so this message will be sort of long, so forgive me.)

In his opening lines, talking about Oliver's birth, Dickens is setting a tone for the whole novel. Oliver was not born into a conventional setting, a young, happy couple, very much in love, desperately wanting a child, looking forward to a sweet, darling baby that they could cherish, which is the usual situation. In fact, Oliver was so unimportant, so insignificant, that he was hardly worth writing about. Just another mouth to feed in the workhouse.

Of course by using too many words you can go into great detail, and Dickens was the master of detail. He mentions how Oliver had trouble starting to breathe on his own. The way he puts it, it's like this tiny newborn baby is born into such despair and insignificance that he's trying to decide whether it's even worth it to live. Rather than hold him up by his feet and slap his behind, as doctors do to get a baby to start breathing, the doctor just puts him down and lets him fight for himself. Even the doctor who delivers him treats him with great indifference. He doesn't care whether he lives or dies! The 'nurse' is some drunken homeless woman. Nobody knows or cares who Oliver's mother is either. She would be the only person who cares about Oliver even a tiny bit, and of course she dies immediately. She knows she's dying and all she wants to do is hold her baby for a second before she dies! Think about this like a Victorian, what a great heart-tugging touch!

So right away you see what the tone of the book is going to be. A baby needs to be loved and cared for to grow up as a 'normal' person. This poor little baby already has three strikes against him.

But you know the book is going to be all about Oliver so you know he's destined to have a very interesting story.

So that's another thing. You know how it is in an action movie. The hero is being pursued by 10 gangsters with machine guns, and he has only his wits. Everything is against him but you know he's going to win in the end, you just don't know -how-. So you sit on the edge of your seat and watch the action--people getting shot, cars crashing and exploding, helicopters crashing into buildings, etc. etc.--and when the hero finally wins you take a big breath and smile and the movie is over. Well that's how it is with Oliver. You know he's going to have a good life, he's the hero of the story. But now you don't know how. You're curious now to read the rest of the story.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

It's creative because instead of just saying Oliver Twist was born on this date at this place, it doesn't even give the location and it says that no fictitious name will be given.