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Which three parts of this excerpt from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens reflect the author's satirical tone?

"Goodness gracious! Is that you, Mr. Bumble, sir? " said Mrs. Mann, thrusting her head out of the window in well-affected ecstasies of joy. "(Susan, take Oliver and them two brats upstairs, and wash 'em directly.)—My heart alive! Mr. Bumble, how glad I am to see you, sure-ly! "

Now, Mr. Bumble was a fat man, and a choleric; so, instead of responding to this open-hearted salutation in a kindred spirit, he gave the little wicket a tremendous shake, and then bestowed upon it a kick which could have emanated from no leg but a beadle's.

"Lor, only think," said Mrs. Mann, running out,—for the three boys had been removed by this time,—"only think of that! That I should have forgotten that the gate was bolted on the inside, on account of them dear children! Walk in sir; walk in, pray, Mr. Bumble, do, sir. "

Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle.

"Do you think this respectful or proper conduct, Mrs. Mann," inquired Mr. Bumble, grasping his cane, "to keep the parish officers a waiting at your garden-gate, when they come here upon porochial business with the porochial orphans? Are you aweer, Mrs. Mann, that you are, as I may say, a porochial delegate, and a stipendiary? "

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The answer is 1,3,and 4

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Answer:

  • “said Mrs. Mann, thrusting her head out of the window in well-affected ecstasies of joy."
  • “He gave the little wicket a tremendous shake, and then bestowed upon it a kick which could have emanated from no leg but a beadle's."
  • “Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle.”

Step-by-step explanation:

Satire is a system utilized by authors to uncover and censure absurdity and debasement of an individual or a general public, by utilizing humor, incongruity, misrepresentation, or scorn. It means to improve humankind by scrutinizing its indiscretions and quirks.

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