Question

Which two parts of this excerpt from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens indicate sarcasm?

Answer 1

Sarcasm to the point to the point where the writer mentioned that to be able to provide 'effectually' and be 'advantageous' was to send a child of a poor family out to sea, when in fact it was very contradicting as had mentioned prior to this statement that it could even probably get the child killed aboard a ship of rowdy gentlemen.

Answer 2

Answer: the second and third part

” The board, in imitation of so wise and salutary an example, took counsel together on the expediency of shipping off Oliver Twist, in some small trading vessel bound to a good unhealthy port.”

and

“the probability being, that the skipper would flog him to death, in a playful mood, some day after dinner, or would knock his brains out with an iron bar; both pastimes being, as is pretty generally known, very favourite and common recreations among gentleman of that class”

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