BR:2-02 Oliver Twist

“I don’t want you to suffer like me.”

Oliver Twist had been in miserable circumstance since he was born. When he grew up, his mother had already passed away, and he obligated to work for his master of a workhouse in order to get an awful meal, and place to rest. However, one day, he was sold for a man who runs a funeral company. After a while, he ran away from there could not be bullying from that man’s son. He fled to London aimlessly, and met a group of thieves mainly consist of children the same age as Oliver.

They taught him several skills to steel valuable things from wealthy people around on a street. After he had taken some training, a boy took Oliver to a market to have him steal something. During the mission, he got caught by civilians instead of other brat who actually stole valuables from gentleman. However, surprisingly, the rich man adopted him without blamed what he did. The boy spent a happy days for a while, but the head of the burglars found and caught him while he was on an errand, and the bad man tried to break into the gentleman's house took advantage of Oliver...

I already watched the story as a movie several years ago. Someone told me that the movie is one of the masterpieces. In that movie, characters are wearing old traditional British clothes, these are the parts of attractions in it. Besides, an old man appeared on the book as a role to teach stealing skills for Oliver and other kids. There's no spotlight on him in the short book, but on the contrary, in the movie, the funny old man plays important role. In order to fill the lack of the contents in this book, if you have a time, borrow the movie.

Dickens Charles; retold by Sebag-Montefiore Mary ; illustrated by Ablett Barry. (2007). Oliver Twist. London : Usborne.

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