summary of oliver twist
In the workhouse of a provincial town seventy miles from London a woman with unknown origin gives birth to a boy and dies. The child is named Oliver Twist and put into the workhouse orphanage. When he is nine Oliver gets transferred to the workhouse itself by Mr. Bumble, the beadle. The little Twist dares to ask for more gruel on behalf of the other half-starved children and the authorities decide to put him to a trade. Oliver is apprenticed to Mr. Sowerberry, an undertaker. Another apprentice, Noah Claypole, insults Oliver's dead mother and small Oliver attacks him. Because of the severe punishment by the Sowerberrys Oliver runs away to London. There he meets Jack Dawkins called The Artful Dodger, a member of a pickpocket-gang run by Fagin, a Jew. Oliver
who does not understand that he is among criminals becomes one of Fagin's boys. Nancy, one of Fagin's gang who is feeling compassion for the child, visits Rose to tell her without giving away the gang that a man named Monks who is in contact with Fagin wishes Oliver harm. He gets caught and is accused of robbing Mr. Reporting this discovery, Sykes murders Nancy after finding out about her treachery. Fagin has set Noah, who became a member of the gang in the meantime, to spy on Nancy. Bumble and his wife, the orphanage matron, are proved to have been in the plot against Oliver and become workhouse inmates. Monks receives his share of the legacy goes to America and dies there in prison. Brownlow decides to take care of Oliver and takes him home with him. Monks plot against Oliver is unravelled by Mr. Brownlow but a bookstall-keeper has seen the true robbers and exculpates Oliver. Rose and Oliver's dead mother are sisters.
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