Second Chapter

The second chapter begins with Squeers that accept Nicholas to be his assistant although at the beginning he was unwilling to accept him because he was to younger for the work.

In the other morning Nicholas woke up at 6:00 am and hurried to the saracen’s head, in this part he was found a his sister, mom, and a strange man that was send for his uncle, this man gave Nicholas a cart. At six o’clock of the other journey Nicholas and Squeers finally arrived at Greta Bridge. mr Squeers and Nicholas took the boys and put them in a small cart. Nicholas wait in the card with the boys, when Squeers jumped down and shouted for someone open the gate, few minutes later a tall boy open the door, this boy was Smike, that looking nerviously at Squeers, Nicholas and the boys jumped down and go to the door with the boys.

The house was not a very welcoming place and Nicholas felt so lonely. The life of the Dotheboys Hall was very hard. They was no heating in the school, and the boys had to wash with buckets of ice water. They wore the same clothes every day and eat a horrible soup that named “medicine”, this was the cheapest food that Squeers could fine. The classroom was cold and dirty with broken windows. The cards of family were opened in front of the classroom and Squeers took all of their money. He did the same with packages and clothes, that after gave to his son Young Wackford that was the only boy who was never hungry and cold, his favorite activity was kicking the other boys and making them cry. And if they tried to defense themselves, he reported to Squeers and their was cruelty punished. Nicholas felt very bad to see the cruelty treatment that the boys received.

He was especially sorry for Smike. He was the oldest boy in the school, he was tall for his age, but his clothes that were much to short for him. He doesn’t take lessons, but he was made to do all the hard dirty jobs around the school.

The next day Niholas found smike tried to light a fire. Smike has a frightened expression, Nicholas was friendly with Smike and started to cry, telling Nicholas that was horrible stay him and that the only exit for him was the dead. Eventually smike stopped crying and moved away, like a scared animal, into the shadows. Later Nicholas sadly went to his bed…