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Oliver's mother was going out with a married man. This made her family upset, so they disowned her. It turned out she was pregnant with Oliver. She had no choice but to give birth to him in a workhouse and died. So the people there immediantly assumed he was an orphan and that his mother was a pregnant prostitute. So Oliver was raised to believe he was an unloved orphan. We later find out that his parents were both rich and his father left him an inheritance. Monk is Oliver's half-brother who is jealous of him. According to the will, if Oliver did something bad, he didn't get anything. So Monk comes up with an extremely elaborate plot that takes up the majority of the book and has a lot of gaps just to make Oliver do something bad. Oliver ends up giving him half of his inheritance, which wasn't much. Monks ends up wasting his money, living a criminal life, and dies in prison. Oliver is adopted by a friend of his father and lives happily ever after. So Oliver was never really poor. He was raised poor, but wasn't really poor himself. He doesn't find out who he really is until the end of the book.

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In "Oliver Twist," the characters, particularly Oliver, are always hungry due to their harsh living conditions in a workhouse system that neglects the basic needs of orphans and the poor. The workhouse provides insufficient food and sustenance, reflecting the societal indifference towards the welfare of the less fortunate during that era. This recurring theme highlights the broader issues of poverty and exploitation, underscoring the struggles faced by vulnerable individuals in Victorian society.


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