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Short Summary Of Oliver Twist

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BAB II ANALYZE 2.1. Summary of Novel Oliver Twist was the second novel of Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist is an orphan because his mother died after pregnant Oliver Twist. Oliver spends the first nine years of his life in a badly run home (parish farm) for young orphans and then transferred to a workhouse for adults. His age in the workhouse is 8 years old. In the workhouse, he must work as trade and study how to make fibers used again for the ships of her majesty’s navy. He also feels hungry in the night because he gets little food. So, during meal hours he says “please sir I want some more” to the old man. It makes the other old man angry with this boy. He brought to the court, and he released from punishment. The persecutor ordered the old …show more content…

In the bookstore, other boys steal handkerchiefs’ Mr. Brownlow. The other boys are safe, but Oliver gets caught by the policeman. Oliver brought to the court by the policeman. In the court, magistrate almost gives him punishment about 3 months hard labor but the magistrate pull back the punishment because the owner of the shop tells to the magistrate about the robbery was committed by two other boys while Mr. Brownlow was reading a book. It cause Oliver free from the punishment and Mr. Brownlow brings him to his house. Indirectly Mr. Brownlow is struck by Oliver’s resemblance to a portrait of a young woman that hangs in his house. After that situation, Oliver gets a fever. After Oliver recover, Mr. Brownlow orders him to send his books to Mr. Banner. On the way to Mr. Banner house, he meets Mrs. Fane. She pretends to be someone who loses her brother and wants to bring him back to home. She forces Oliver to come back to Fagin’s house. She is doing something like that because Fagin orders her to get Oliver. Fagin is afraid if his house founded by the police. Oliver does not like that house again so he tries to escape that house. Unfortunately, he gets caught by

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