Brownlow sees an unexpected similarity between young Oliver and a portrait of a woman that hangs in his home.Īlas, it's not long before two young adults from Fagin's gang, Bill Sikes and his lover Nancy, have arrived to capture Oliver and return him to the criminal fold. Part of this unexpected care comes from the fact that Mr. Brownlow, their victim, takes our hero into his home and nurses him back to health. Though Oliver runs away, he is caught and just barely manages to escape conviction for the crime. After learning the 'trade' for a few days, Oliver is sent out in the company of a couple of other boys and is horrified when he sees them steal for real. As it happens, Fagin is a long-time criminal who cleverly trains orphan boys to become pickpockets in his employ. Our desperate hero runs off and makes his way to London.īy the time he reaches the city, exhausted and hungry, Oliver meets a boy named Jack Dawkins, who offers shelter at the home of a man called Fagin. After one of the other apprentices makes withering comments about Oliver's mother, Oliver gets into a fight with the young man and his boss is mightily displeased. Though Oliver is nearly apprenticed to a rough-natured chimney sweep, he winds up escaping that fate and instead works with a local undertaker named Mr. Bumble, the parish beadle, pits out the offer of five pounds to anyone who will get the boy out of the workhouse. When some of the other boys bully the young man to ask the famous question, 'Please, sir, may I have some more?', Mr.

No one knows her name, so the infant is sent to a terribly-run orphanage for the first nine years of his life, followed by a transfer to a workhouse for adults. *shakes fist*īorn in a workhouse in 1830s England, young Oliver becomes an orphan almost immediately after his birth as his mother is found in the street. The story was butchered to the point that it's not even Dickensian.

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