Question

how did oliver feel when he was asked to appear before the live board ? please answer

Answer 1

Oliver was terrified when he was asked to appear before the magistrate. Oliver fell on his knees and begs that he was locked in a room, beaten besides any other apprenticeship to Mr. Garfield.  The magistrate refuses the approval of the apprenticeship and ordered the workhouse authorities to advertise.

Answer 2

Answer:

This is an extract from the novel ‘OLIVER TWIST’ written by the British novelist

Charles Dickens (1812- 70). It is the story of an orphan boy named Oliver, who is brought

to a children’s home.)

Mr. Bumble walked on with long strides. Little Oliver, firmly grasping his gold –

laced cuff, trotted beside him.

Oliver had not been within the walls of the workhouse a quarter of an hour, when Mr.

Bumble informed him that the board had said he was to appear before it forthwith.

Not having a very clearly defined notion of what a live board was, Oliver was rather

astonished by this information, and was not quite certain whether he ought to laugh or cry.

He had no time to think about the matter. Mr. Bumble asked Oliver to follow him into a

large white – washed room where eight or ten fat gentlemen were sitting round a table.

At the top of the table, seated in an armchair rather higher than the rest, was a

particularly fat gentleman with a very round, red face.

‘Bow to the board,’ said Bumble. Oliver brushed away two or three tears that were

lingering in his eyes; and seeing no board but the table, bowed to that.

‘What’s your name, boy?’ said the gentleman in the high chair.

Oliver was frightened at the sight of so many gentlemen, which made him tremble.

The beadle gave him a tap on his

back with his cane, which made

him cry.

‘Boy,’ said the gentlem