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"Oliver Twist"
This book tells of a young orphan,
Oliver, and his attempts to stay good in a society that refuses to help. Oliver
is born in a workhouse, to a mother not known to anyone in the town. She dies
right after giving birth to him, and he is sent to the parochial orphanage,
where he and the other orphans are treated terribly and fed very little. When
he turns nine, he is sent to the workhouse, where again he and the others are
treated badly and practically starved. The other boys, unable to stand their
hunger any longer, decide to draw straws to choose who will have to go up and
ask for more food. Oliver loses. On the appointed day, after finishing his
first serving of gruel, he goes up and asks for more. Mr. Bumble,
the beadle, and the board are outraged, and decide they must get rid of Oliver,
apprenticing him to the parochial undertaker, Mr.
Sowerberry. It is not great there either, and after an attack on his
mother’s memory, Oliver runs away.
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