Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
In the novel Oliver Twist, written by Charles Dickens, talks about a boy named Oliver. Oliver is an orphan who lived in a workshop and was always bullied by other boys. Due to a circumstance, he travelled towards London. Outside London, Oliver, starved and exhausted, meets Jack Dawkins. He offers Oliver shelter in his London house of his benefactor, Fagin. It turns out that Fagin is a career criminals who trains orphans to pickpocket for him. After a few days, he was sent on a mission to pickpocket. Later, he escaped and was nursed back home by Mr. Brownlow, but two young adult in Fagin’s gang, Bill Spikes and Nancy captured Oliver and brang him back to Fagin. There was some occasions where I couldn’t help but pity him. He was born without his mother and was raised in a badly run orphanage within a corrupted society. He was then transferred to the workshop which was even worse, he was being physically abused and had to always starve. After a while, he moved to a house in which was in London. Thinking that it would be all better than before and have a happy lifestyle, but he was wrong. He was mistreated if he didn’t successfully pickpocket from someone. The surroundings that he moved to each time went worse and worse. This made me felt very emotional. One thing that stood out for me was the concept of nature over nurture. Oliver, an orphaned boy, still had instincts to do right, and he was consistently amazed by the voices that surrounded him. Even when he was abused and manipulated, he did not get angry or upset, just like when he was in the orphanage. Also, when SIkes and Crackit forced him into the robbery, Oliver begs to “be allowed to run away and die in the fields”. Oliver does not present any complicated pictured of a person torn between good and bad. (what “good” and “bad”, of course, can be debated). Although Oliver is surrounded by horrible situations, I still felt that Dickens had a tone of hope indicating it all.
In the novel Oliver Twist, written by Charles Dickens, talks about a boy named Oliver. Oliver is an orphan who lived in a workshop and was always bullied by other boys. Due to a circumstance, he travelled towards London. Outside London, Oliver, starved and exhausted, meets Jack Dawkins. He offers Oliver shelter in his London house of his benefactor, Fagin. It turns out that Fagin is a career criminals who trains orphans to pickpocket for him. After a few days, he was sent on a mission to pickpocket. Later, he escaped and was nursed back home by Mr. Brownlow, but two young adult in Fagin’s gang, Bill Spikes and Nancy captured Oliver and brang him back to Fagin. There was some occasions where I couldn’t help but pity him. He was born without his mother and was raised in a badly run orphanage within a corrupted society. He was then transferred to the workshop which was even worse, he was being physically abused and had to always starve. After a while, he moved to a house in which was in London. Thinking that it would be all better than before and have a happy lifestyle, but he was wrong. He was mistreated if he didn’t successfully pickpocket from someone. The surroundings that he moved to each time went worse and worse. This made me felt very emotional. One thing that stood out for me was the concept of nature over nurture. Oliver, an orphaned boy, still had instincts to do right, and he was consistently amazed by the voices that surrounded him. Even when he was abused and manipulated, he did not get angry or upset, just like when he was in the orphanage. Also, when SIkes and Crackit forced him into the robbery, Oliver begs to “be allowed to run away and die in the fields”. Oliver does not present any complicated pictured of a person torn between good and bad. (what “good” and “bad”, of course, can be debated). Although Oliver is surrounded by horrible situations, I still felt that Dickens had a tone of hope indicating it all.