Name : Venny Herawati

Nim : 081321

Class : 6C

PROSE

Novel: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Summary:

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, 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. 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.
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.

The Characters

Main Character: Oliver Twist

Round Characters:

1. Oliver Twist: From the beginning of the story he does not have faith to be good person
but in chapter 5 he has faith to be a good person. He is the main character in this novel.

2. Nancy: In the beginning of the story Nancy is one of pickpocket in Fagin’s gang, firstly
she follows Fagin for being evil to Oliver, but in the chapter 6 she turned from evil to
kind. She tried to help Oliver by any way that she can from chapter six until she died
murdered by Bill Sikes.

Flat Characters:

1. Mr. Brownlow: the old benevolent gentleman, Monks’s father’s oldest friend,he knows
the story of Oliver family.

2. Fagin: a leader of pickpocket’s gang in London

3. Bill Sikes: Fagin’s friend

4. Monks (Edward Leeford): Oliver half-brother,he is seeking all of the inheritance from his
father for himself
Maria Conception by Katherine Anne Porter

Summary:

Maria Concepcion, a hardworking young bride, is on her way to deliver food to her husband,
Juan Village, and his boss, Givens, at an archaeological site on the outskirts of town. Maria
pregnant and her husband run away with a beekeeper named Maria Rose. After Maria
Conception found that Juan unfaithful, everything was changed. Conception became more
religious woman with regularly go to the church. Conception’s baby died within four days.
Conception felt jealous to Rose then she murdered Rose. Rose was lying all tangled up, and from
her neck to her middle she was full of knife-holes. There is an officer who asks Lupe, Rose’s
godmother. Lupe knows that Conception who murdered Rose, but she covered the fact. Maria
Conception was free then she takes Rose’s son and exclaimed that he is hers. Finally Juan comes
back to Conception and she keeps Rose’s son as her own child.

The Characters

Main Character: Maria Conception Manriquez

Round Characters:

1. Maria Conception Manriquez: Round Character that considered as dynamic character.

She begins the story as an apparently dutiful and devoted woman who attends faithfully
to her chores and religious obligations. But events bring out some of her jealousy,
coldness, and rage so that she commits a violent act of revenge. By the story end, she is
not a subservient but a dominant woman.

2. Juan de Dios Villegas: Round Character. He is irresponsible husband, when Maria

pregnant he ran with Maria Rosa, then Maria Conception’s baby died within four days.

Flat Character:

1. Maria Rosa: she is a beekeeper, a fifteen years old girl who weak person, she accepted if
Juan slap her or hurt her.
2. Lupe: a medicine woman, she is Maria Rose’s godmother, she support Conception.

3. Soledad: a thinker and a peace-maker, she support Conception