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Twist
By Charles Dickens
Birth
Key: Time between
events is between
month and years.
No years or dates Oliver’s Treatment in the world.
are ever used in the For there were no women who had given
book. It takes place birth during Oliver's first few months
in the 1830s.
therefore he was sent to a branch-
workhouse. Were an older women would
let them roll around with very little food or
clothing. Most didn’t make it. At age nine
he was taken back to work house.
“Reward” for Oliver
The reward was that whoever “hired” Oliver would be
paid an amount of money. The first person was a
chimney sweeper who wanted to “hire” Oliver.
However, Oliver being the overly emotional young boy
got himself out of it. The next was a coffin maker.
Where Oliver was appoint work.
Runaway Oliver
As a result of Oliver’s outburst, the beetle was called to take
care of him as the master was out. Oliver was lock in the back
kitchen after a beating of punishment along insults about his
mother. When, finally, let out and sent to bed. Oliver wept
long and hard, and made his decision to runaway to London.
Oliver learns the ways of the thieves
As the other boys go out to work, Fagin, The Dodger and Master
Bates play a game. It’s the game of practicing pickpocketing.
After a few days of this, Oliver is sent with them out to “work”.
Events unfold to Oliver being wrongly accused of being the
pickpocketer and falling ill. The old gentlemen, who was rob,
takes in the ill Oliver and treat him back to health.
Oliver’s Crime
As weeks past, Oliver wanted no part in his friends line
of work. Finally, when the Dodger explain it to Oliver that
he would be better off to just follow them, then just
resisting the inevitable. Oliver agreed and thus began his
work. As Stikes, a friend of Fagin, need a boy for a
house robbery, Oliver had his first job, even though he
hated it with a passion.
Sweet as a Rose
As he nock on the door, he was soon caught by the Giles, the
one who shot him. As the mistress of the house heard the news
of the thief being caught by wounded, she force him to be
brought to a room and the doctor to be summoned. Oliver was
only a boy, Rose the adopted daughter of Ms. Maylie, took pity
to him and his story. Because of Rose, Oliver stay and lived
with the Maylies.