Oh, Life is So Hard Sometimes!
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Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Reviewed by
Michael Gigliotti
| Published in: | 1851 |
| Length: | 108 pages |
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| Genre: | Fiction |
| Age: | Young Adult |
Imagine being being between 10 and 14 years-old, drinking vodka and smoking pipes while pick pocketing people and running from police each day. That's the way it was in the mid 18th century. In the book Oliver Twist that's how it was. In a work house for boys, a boy named Oliver asks for more food when the work house was very limited on food. Then the owners beat Oliver and they sold him to a funeral home. The owners there locked him in a cellar with a bunch of coffins. He escaped and ran 30 to 40 miles all the way to London. He met a boy named the Artful Dodger who gave him food and lodgings. One day the man who gave Oliver lodging, Fagin , sent Oliver out to get some wallets. The boy who took Oliver to Fagin, was named the Artful Dodger. He stole a wallet and ran away forgetting about Oliver. Oliver was standing right behind the man whose wallet was stolen . Now a horrid man, Bill Sykes , Fagin's friend, is after Oliver because Oliver is going to court and Fagin doesnąt want to get in trouble if Oliver says anything about their hide out place.
What will happen to the innocent boy? Will Oliver say anything to the judge? Will Oliver be found guilty? What will happen to Fagin and the gang? If Bill Sykes catches Oliver, what will he do to him? Read the book to find out.
I think this book is good because I am twelve years-old and I don't do any of that stuff to make a living , but Fagin, Dodger and the gang do. This book teaches kids and grown ups the way it was for some kids back then.
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