He also helps out when Rose falls ill, casually meeting a mysterious man along the way. Oliver gives his story to the widow Mrs Maylie, her son Harry and her adoptive daughter Rose, and Doctor Losberne. He is then nursed back to health at the home of the Maylies, the house Sikes was attempting to burgle. However, the robbery fails and, in the ensuing chase, Oliver is shot. Meanwhile, Oliver is forced by Fagin to join Sikes in an attempted robbery at a rural house, as they need a small boy to enter a window and open the front door for Sikes to get in. Despite this, Brownlow still holds onto a little bit of hope that this might not be true. This belief is further strengthened when Bumble, in response to Brownlow's newspaper advertisement for information about Oliver, gives a disparaging opinion of the boy. Mr Brownlow, who mistakenly thinks that Oliver has run away with the money, assumes that Oliver was a thief all along. However, Nancy later betrays Fagin and Sikes, as well as herself, for doing so since they have stolen Oliver's chance to have a better life. However, Oliver is caught by Nancy and Bill Sikes, who pretend to be his siblings, and is returned to Fagin's den. After recovering from his injuries, Oliver is sent on an errand by Brownlow to pay a local merchant £5 and to return some books. Oliver, who was injured in the chase, is cleared by a witness to the crime and is taken in by Brownlow to his home where he is well treated. When the gentleman, Mr Brownlow, realises he is being robbed, Oliver is mistaken for the pickpocket and is then chased, captured and taken to the police. Oliver innocently goes "to work" with Dawkins and Charley Bates, but sees the real nature of their "work" when Dawkins picks the pocket of a gentleman. In London, Oliver meets Jack Dawkins, the Artful Dodger, who offers him a place to stay, where he meets up with Fagin and his band of young thieves. Oliver is then beaten for the offence, but he manages to escape and runs away to London. Oliver fights with Noah Claypole, an older boy at the undertakers, because Noah mocked Oliver's dead mother. He is then branded a troublemaker and offered as an apprentice to anyone willing to take him, and he is eventually apprenticed to Sowerberry, the undertaker.
At evening supper, once the gruel is dished out and eaten, Oliver goes to the master and famously says, "Please Sir. They cast lots to decide who will ask for more gruel for them all, and Oliver is chosen. The orphans at the workhouse are starving because of their cruel treatment.
Oliver is sent to an orphanage, run by Mrs Mann, until he is nine years old, when he is returned to the workhouse. Mr Bumble, the Beadle, names the boy Oliver Twist. Old Sally, who was present at the birth, takes from the dying woman a locket and ring. Background īased in the 1820s, the orphan, young Oliver is born in a parish workhouse in an unnamed town. He was the first child protagonist in an English novel. Oliver Twist is the title character and protagonist of the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Harry Maylie (maternal uncle by marriage) "Please,sir, I want some more." Illustration by George CruikshankĮdward "Monks" Leeford (half-brother, deceased)Ĭaptain Fleming (maternal grandfather, deceased)
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