*찰스 디킨스의 올리버 트위스트를 읽고

"찰스 디킨스의 올리버 트위스트를 읽고" 우선, 작가에 대한 간단한 소개를 하겠습니다. 찰스 디킨스는 영국의 소설가입니다. 그는 소년시절부터 빈곤의 고통을 겪었으며, 학교에도 거의 다니지 못라고 12세 때부터 공장에서 일을 하였습니다. 그때부터 그는 사회의 모순과 부정을 직접 체험하였습니다. 그의 소설은 각양각색의 민물들로 가득찬 수많은 작품에서는 심각함에서 우스꽝스러움에 이르기까지 온갖 상태가 다 묘사되어 있고, 그의 사후1세기를 통해 각국어로 번역되어 명성을 누리고 있습니다. 그의 작품으로는 크리스마스 캐럴,올리버 트위스트가 있습니다. 다음은 올리버 트위스트에 나오는 인물들을 소개하겠습니다.간단히 내용을 요약하면, 주인공 올리버는 아버지를 모르며 어머니도 고아원에서 그를 낳고 사망합니다. 고아가 된 올리버는 고아원에서 심한학대를 받고 자라다가 런던으로 옵니다. 런던에서 올리버의 배다른 형은 올리버를 알아 보지만, 그의 출생에 대해선 감추려 고민 합니다. 런던에서 빈민굴의 아이들에게 소매치기를 시키는 나쁜노인을 만나 동료의 죄를 뒤집어 쓰고 체포되나 그 상황을 지켜보았던 친절한 부자를 만나 풀려납니다.뒤에 그 부자가 아버지의 친구라는 것이 밝혀져 그의 양자가 되어 행복하게 살게됩니다. First of all, I would like to tell you about the author. Charles Dickens is a British born writer who experienced poverty in his childhood and worked at a factory from the age of twelve. Not being able to go to school, he himself saw corruption and immorality of society. His motley crew studded novels presented in solemnity and even with grotesques have been translated over dozens of languages for the last century. Other works also include Christmas Carol and Olivier Twist. Next, I would like to introduce characters in the novel. To put it briefly, our hero, Oliver, is orphaned ever since he was born and grows up midst sufferings and hardships and moves to London,where he is spotted by his half-brother who,caught between the Scylla and Charibdes, would not tell a soul the secret birth of Oliver. Meeting a Jew and getting framed for a pick pocketing that he has never done, he is freed at the end, thanks to a kind rich man,whom we later find out to be a friend of Oliver's father. Oliver is adopted and lives happily ever after. *Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis : trapped between two equally unpleasant choices, i.e. caught between a rock and a hard place [fr. the names of the monsters Scylla and Charybdis, who were situated in the Strait of Messina to trap sailors between them] *In Greek mythology, Scylla was a six-headed sea monster who lived underneath a dangerous rock at one side of the Strait of Messia, opposite the dangerous whirlpool Charybdis. Ships that wanted to pass safely had to be both fortunate and chart a very cautious course. Without careful timing and precise sailing, a disaster was likely. Retirees, too, must sail a careful course if they are to navigate a financially safe and worry-free retirement. They must carefully sail between the Scylla of low returns and the Charybdis of high risk. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *올리버 트위스트의 내용의 4부분으로 간추려서 쓰기 *Birth and early years of Oliver Twist Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse in a provincial town. His mother has been found very sick in the street, and she gives birth to Oliver just before she dies. Oliver is raised under the care of Mrs. Mann and the beadle Mr. Bumble in the workhouse. When it falls to Oliver’s lot to ask for more food on behalf of all the starving children in the workhouse, he is trashed, and then apprenticed to an undertaker, Mr. Sowerberry. Another apprentice of Mr. Sowerberry’s, Noah Claypole insults Oliver’s dead mother and the small and frail Oliver attacks him. However, Oliver is punished severely. *Oliver walks into the street of London And he runs away to London. Here he is picked up by Jack Dawkins or the Artful Dodger as he is called. The Artful Dodger is a member of the Jew Fagin’s gang of boys. Fagin has trained the boys to become pickpockets. The Artful Dodger takes Oliver to Fagin’s den in the London slums, and Oliver, who innocently does not understand that he is among criminals, becomes one of Fagin’s boys. When Oliver is sent out with The Artful Dodger and another boy on a pickpocket expedition Oliver is so shocked when he realizes what is going on that he and not the two other boys are caught. Fortunately, the victim of the thieves, the old benevolent gentleman, Mr. Brownlow rescues Oliver from arrest and brings him to his house, where the housekeeper, Mrs. Bedwin nurses him back to life after he had fallen sick, and for the first time in his life he is happy. *The Expedition, the Burglary and Involves a critical position However, with the help of the brutal murderer Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy Fagin kidnaps Oliver. Fagin is prompted to do this by the mysterious Mr. Monks. Oliver is taken along on a burglary expedition in the country. The thieves are discovered in the house of Mrs. Maylie and her adopted niece, Rose, and Oliver is shot and wounded. Sikes escapes. Rose and Mrs. Maylie nurse the wounded Oliver. When he tells them his story they believe him, and he settles with them. While living with Rose and Mrs. Maylie Oliver one day sees Fagin and Monks looking at him in through a window. Nancy discovers that Monks is plotting against Oliver for some reason, bribing Fagin to corrupt his innocence. Nancy also learns that there is some kind of connection between Rose and Oliver; but after having told Rose’s adviser and friend Dr. Losberne about it on the steps of London Bridge, she is discovered by Noah Claypole, who in the meantime has become a member of Fagin’s gang, and Sykes murders her. On his frantic flight away from the crime Sykes accidentally and dramatically hangs himself. Fagin and the rest of the gang are arrested. Fagin is executed after Oliver has visited him in the condemned cell in Newgate Prison. The Artful Dodger is transported after a court scene in which he eloquently defends himself and his class. * The end Monks’ plot against Oliver is disclosed by Mr. Brownlow. Monks is Oliver’s half-brother seeking all of the inheritance for himself. Oliver’s father’s will states that he will leave money to Oliver on the condition that his reputation is clean. Oliver’s dead mother and Rose were sisters. Monks receives his share of the inheritance and goes away to America. He dies in prison there, and Oliver is adopted by Mr. Brownlow. *올리버 트위스트의 새로운 결말을 영어로 바꿔쓰기(Write an alternative ending) 예: 원래는 올리버 트위스트가 병이 낳아서 살지만, 끝내는 죽음. That night, Oliver went to heaven to meet his mother. The night in London fell in silence.