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Oliver Twist (Short summary)
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| OLIVER TWIST |
SUMMARY
Oliver twist,or The parish Boy's progress,is the Second Novel of Charles Dickens,it was first published as a serial in 1837-39
Charles Dickens, Oliver twist it may also be called the Tragedy of childhood.it is comical and pathetic. No other novelist has presented the sufferings of a child with as much sympathy and tender solicitude.
This novel deals with the exploitation of a child in a workhouse. A son of a unknown parentage ,Oliver Twist is forced by circumstances to drudge in a workhouse .
He runs away from there to get under the clutches of a band of thieves and pickpockets.
The rogue who runs the show is an old Jew Fagin by name . Bill Sikes , Nancy and the Artful Dodger resort to all sorts of unfair means to enrich Fagin's coffer. It was by them Oliver learns tricks to rob people . Fortunately for him Mr.Brownlow , a man of benevolent disposition rescues him from the den. The gang , however , takes him away to lead the life of a criminal . Bill Sikes instigates him to burgle into a house , where he is fired at. He sustains serious injuries . Mrs . Maylie and her protegee Rose nurse him with loving care . It is from Nancy that Rose learns of Oliver's parentage , so long kept a guarded secret by a criminal named Monks . She also learns that she is related to Oliver . Morally Reclaimed , Nancy is determined to expose the gang and bring them to book. Bill Sikes kills Nancy . In his bid to escape Sikes is killed . The gang is exposed , and Monks reveals the secret . Monks is Oliver's stepbrother and has played a nefarious (sinful) game only with a view to depriving the innocent child. Rose is Oliver's mother's sister . Bronlow adopts Oliver as his son . Monks leaves to die in prison . The story tells us about the emergence of a boy from squalor to light . The underworld of London has photographic Fidelity.
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This novel deals with the exploitation of a child in a workhouse. A son of a unknown parentage ,Oliver Twist is forced by circumstances to drudge in a workhouse .
He runs away from there to get under the clutches of a band of thieves and pickpockets.
The rogue who runs the show is an old Jew Fagin by name . Bill Sikes , Nancy and the Artful Dodger resort to all sorts of unfair means to enrich Fagin's coffer. It was by them Oliver learns tricks to rob people . Fortunately for him Mr.Brownlow , a man of benevolent disposition rescues him from the den. The gang , however , takes him away to lead the life of a criminal . Bill Sikes instigates him to burgle into a house , where he is fired at. He sustains serious injuries . Mrs . Maylie and her protegee Rose nurse him with loving care . It is from Nancy that Rose learns of Oliver's parentage , so long kept a guarded secret by a criminal named Monks . She also learns that she is related to Oliver . Morally Reclaimed , Nancy is determined to expose the gang and bring them to book. Bill Sikes kills Nancy . In his bid to escape Sikes is killed . The gang is exposed , and Monks reveals the secret . Monks is Oliver's stepbrother and has played a nefarious (sinful) game only with a view to depriving the innocent child. Rose is Oliver's mother's sister . Bronlow adopts Oliver as his son . Monks leaves to die in prison . The story tells us about the emergence of a boy from squalor to light . The underworld of London has photographic Fidelity.
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