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The filthy slums of London…the dark alleys, the abandoned, unlighted buildings. The rain and fog envelop the dark city. The atmosphere is dismal; evil dominates this world. The major action of Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens moves back and forth between two worlds: the filthy slums of London, and the clean, co ....
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.... waifs of London. There is someone viler, someone even Fagin fears; Bill Sikes, a brute and a murderer. He has his own criminal pursuits with the little hero in mind. Through many a "Twist," and the help from a wealthy benefactor, Mr. Brownlow, Oliver manages to escape the clutches of Nineteenth Century Victorian London - for a time.
Oliver is generally quiet and shy, rather than aggressive. But when he is nine years old he does two bold things that change his life. At the workhouse he asks for more food: "Please sir, I want some more." (12), and when he's an apprentice ....
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