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This month we have been reading Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. It is five hundred plus pages of doom and gloom. Dickens mocks the hypocrisies of his time by surrounding the novel's serious themes with sarcasm and dark humor. Today we headed to
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As always it was
very well done. Casa Manana has the best
children’s theater around. Turning this
tragic tale into a musical did lighten up the darkness factor. Poor Oliver endures hardships, injury,
sickness, incredible poverty and cruelty.
Oliver remains pure-hearted; he steers away from evil when those around
him give in to it and in proper fairy-tale fashion, he eventually receives his
reward.
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The book is
better and far more suspenseful but the play would be a great introduction to Dickens
tale and the effects of industrialism on 19th-century England
I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
you are my God, do not delay.
Psalms 40:17
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