Oliver also meets Nancy, also a thief - and maybe also a prostitute - and a former protege of Fagin. Nearing London Oliver encounters Jack Dawkins, the Artful Dodger, who accompanies Oliver to the city and gets him acquainted with Fagin and his gang of young rogues including Charley Bates. More than that, Oliver decides to run away and soon finds himself on a week-long journey to London on foot. Sowerberry's but an incident involving Noah Claypole's bullying ways rouses Oliver to violence at last. It is a mark of how terrible the workhouse diet is that Oliver treats the dog scraps like it was a feast. He is given dog scraps for food and constantly bullied by an older boy named Noah Claypole. In time, Oliver is indeed given away, as an apprentice to an undertaker, Mr. This immediately puts Oliver under the attention of the workhouse overseers who attempt to get rid of him by giving him away. At the age of eleven, Oliver is compelled by his fellows to dare ask for more food. Oliver is raised in the harsh workhouse environment where he and the other boys are routinely abused, ignored, and kept on short rations. Oliver Twist's mother gives birth to him at a parish workhouse and dies while doing so. Posted: NovemOliver Twist Charles Dickens Synopsis
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