Life can throw us into the pitfall of tragedy and disappointment, surround us with misfortunates and setbacks for all it can, but the one thing that it cannot take away from us is the belief in ourselves to be something greater than what life imposes on us.
But remember this: our struggles do not define who we are. As human beings, we all have to contend with our personal issues and face subtle forms of repression. The story is not just an indictment of social injustice, but rather an epitome of the universal message that the good always wins over the bad.Īnother lesson to learn lies in Oliver’s struggling to survive in the savage world of the underclass, which is a heart-touching story. However, despite relentless trials of life, he still retained his kind-heartedness, bravery and optimism. All his life, he was subjected to abject destitution, physically and mentally abused by deception and treachery.
It is best corroborated in the life of Oliver Twist. And here his incredible journey to find happiness began.Ī valuable lesson that I learn from this book is the battle of good versus evil in which the evil continually tries to corrupt and exploit the good, but the good wins in the end. Brownlow, whom he was supposed to have robbed, recognized Oliver’s innate goodness and invited him home. Oliver later realized that his new friends were pickpockets. He escaped to London, where he met a streetwise boy, the Artful Dodger, who initiated him into the all-boy household of an “old gentleman” called Fagin, a criminal mastermind. Bumble, the parish beadle, flew into a rage and sold Oliver to an undertaker. When Oliver asked the master for more food, Mr. He spent the first nine years of his life in a badly run home for young orphans before being transferred to a workhouse. It tells the story of Oliver Twist, an orphan born in a workhouse in England. Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy’s Progress, is English author Charles Dickens’s second novel, and was first published as a serial between 18. Over the course of his career, he wrote such acclaimed classic novels as Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Cities. By the 20th century critics and scholars had recognized him as the literary colossus of his age. Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) is an English writer and social critic whose works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime.
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