Oliver Twist

The hero or main character of the novel is called Oliver Twist. He is born in a workhouse to a dying mother and the parish beadle names him "Oliver Twist". At the time it was standard practice to name orphans in such a way that their names were unlike those of real people in the area. However, the names were unmistakably English. (Have you ever encountered the family name "Twist" in real life?) Obviously, the name was invented by the author, Charles Dickens. I hope this is of some use.

no it was a fictional story about life in the Victorian times

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i've got a simpelfied version of the book from my english teacher. i've read it in one go because it was so short and easy. charles dickens wanted to give people a chance to think about the lower classes of society. although he also highlighted the criminal intensity. personally i think that's kind of, what the story is based on.

He is arrested and sent to Australia.

he ran away with the other boys

Oliver Twist is placed in the Victorian era.

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Oliver was an orphan who was born in the workhouse. That gave him a very low social status. Noah was a charity boy, which, while still not a very powerful position, was higher than that of an orphan. (Noah had also been schooled, so he was more educated than Oliver.)

There was never a specific number named in the book.

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Charles Dickens also wrote Bleak House, Dombey & Son, Little Dorrit, The Old Curiousity Shop, to name a few. He produce 14 novels and numerous short stories, sketches and essays during his life.

There are several websites that carry the entire text for reading, dowloading or printing at no charge. One of them is www.gutenberg.org/ and another is www.onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/. And of course your local library will have a copy on their shelves.

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Oliver first lives in the workhouse, then goes to work and live at the undertaker's home for a short period. In London, he lives in 'squat' accommodations with Fagin, the Artfull Dodger, and the rest of the boys, until he escapes and goes to live with Mr. Brownlow.

Short version: Oliver is about an orphan who runs away from an orphanage because he got in trouble for asking for more food. He ends up living with a group of boys that are trained professionals at pickpocketing by an old mentor. Oliver ends up getting in trouble but catches a bad man and earns tons of money. Oliver then becomes really rich and becomes a great grandfather.

Long Version: Oliver Twist was a young orphan. He worked and lived at a workhouse. One day he picked the short straw and had to ask the cook for some more food. This is probably the most famous lines in the book and film, "Please sir, may I have have some more?".

Of course there was a consequence to that question and the Head man of the workhouse, Mr. Bumble, took Oliver out into the streets and asked if anyone wanted to buy the young boy from him. A family who built coffins and directed funerals decided to take him in. A adolescent boy from that family insulted Oliver's mother, (who is dead), and that started a fight. Oliver was thrown in the cellar.

Luckily Oliver managed to escape from that dreadful place. He saw a sign to London and decided to head that way.

When Oliver eventually arrived in London he met a boy. He was known as the 'Artful Dodger'. Oliver learned that his little friend was a pickpocket. Artful Dodger took Oliver to his home, where other boys like him lived.

The master of them all was an old man called Fagin. Fagin was a good, down-to-earth man, who lived of his boys success.

On Oliver's first day pickpocketing he went with Artful Dodger, so that he could gain some experience before he did it himself. Unfortunately he was caught, even though it was his friend's dirty work!

Oliver was now in court, charged for theft. But luckily there was an eyewitness who told the truth about what had happened. Oliver thanked the kind man and he told him that he was an orphan. Oliver found out that the man was called Mr. Brownlow.

It didn't take long for Mr. Brownlow to decide on fostering Oliver! Oliver got on Mr. Brownlow's horse and carriage and went to his expensive home. Oliver quickly settled down. In his dreams he wished and wished he could live in a house like this and be cared by someone!

Bill Sikes and his girlfriend, Nancy worked for Fagin. Bill was a very violent and unforgiving man and was scared that Oliver would tell everyone about Fagin and his business. Bill and Nancy had to go and get Oliver back by kidnapping him! Nancy wasn't too keen on that idea because she was a very caring and lovely person and she thinks that Oliver deserves to live a good and free life.

Bill forced Nancy to come and they succeeded in their task of kidnapping Oliver. When they arrived at Fagin's place, Oliver didn't like what had happened and he slapped Bill. Bill took his belt off and wanted to beat Oliver. Nancy stopped him but she was slapped by Bill. She stormed out of the room. Even though Nancy hated Bill for what he did, she still loved him and she thought that Bill needed her.

No matter what happened Bill wasn't going to let Oliver go anywhere, so he couldn't go back to Mr. Brownlow's house.

One night Bill, Fagin, Oliver and Nancy went to the nearby pub. (This was where Nancy worked). Bill ordered his dog, Bullseye to guard Oliver.

Nancy had a plan to get Oliver and take him back to Mr. Brownlow. Earlier before they went to the pub Nancy went to Mr. Brownlow's house and told him everything that had happened. She told him to meet her on London Bridge at midnight because she would have Oliver.

First of all Nancy started off a song, slowly everyone else joined in as they were drunk and it all became very loud and she quickly got Oliver. Of course Bullseye barked but Bill couldn't hear him! Nancy got a head start on Bill but eventually realised what had happened. He quickly got up onto his feet and followed Nancy to the London Bridge.

As Nancy was walking up the stairs to meet Mr. Brownlow, Bill caught and carried her back down the stairs. He took her behind a wall and started beating her! As Bill came back there was blood on his shirt and Oliver knew that Nancy was dead. Bullseye was now terrified of Bill and he ran off. A crowd of people heard all this noise and commotion and ran up to Mr. Brownlow to ask what had happened. Suddenly there was a massive search party to find the murderer, Bill!

Bill carried Oliver all the way to Fagin's house. Fagin was worried as there was blood on Bill's shirt. Bill said that Nancy wasn't going to be interfering anymore. Fagin realised what this actually meant.

Outside Bill heard Bullseye's bark, followed by cries of outrage. Bullseye had taken the crowd to Fagin's secret home! Bill escaped yet again with Oliver down the street. He climbed up some stairs and told Oliver to climb up on a beam and tie a piece of rope to it so Bill could swing over the alley. Oliver managed to do the task and slowly climbed back down. Bill wrapped the rope around him and swung to the other side he couldn't hold onto the other side. Bill tried a couple more times but he accidentally hung himself! The police ran up the stairs and rescued Oliver.

A few days later Oliver was back in Mr. Brownlow's house and learnt about his mother. His mother was friends with Mr. Brownlow!

Oliver was very happy where he was at that moment in time and he didn't want to go anywhere else!

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because all the boys only got one ladle full of gruel.

He was still hungry. He drew the short straw. The boys had agreed that one of them would ask, and Oliver lost.

If you mean the musical movie Oliver!, the plot is much sanitized. The girls are not prostitutes, Fagin is not a pedophile nor is his Jewish heritage mentioned. And at the end of the movie, Fagin prances happily off the screen with The Artful Dodger, whereas in the book, he ends his life as a sniveling coward and a madman.

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Oliver Twist was only Dickens's second novel and was a dramatic departure from Pickwick, so was experimental in both genre and structure. Oliver Twist was the first book featuring a child as the protagonist. The book combines attributes of the typical Victorian 'sensation' novel and Gothic fiction, topical satire, elements of the fairy tale, and standard fiction. Dickens was still learning his craft and finding his own voice when he wrote Oliver Twist, but his later books would also incorporate multiple genres.

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Oliver walked from the coffin maker's house for seven days on the king's highway (he had to beg to get food) until he came to the town of Barnet.Too tired to beg or continue, he sits by the side of the road until he is found by Jack Dawkins, or the Artful Dodger. The Dodger invites him vaguely to come to "a gentleman's house" who would feed and provide shelter for Oliver. Oliver agrees, and they travel the entire day on the highway and through a squalid neighborhood to Fagin's house. So altogether- eight days.