We invite you to get acquainted with Dickens's second novel and read its summary. "The Adventures of Oliver Twist" is the work in question. It became the first novel in English literature in which the main character is a child. This work was first published between 1837 and 1839. The novel is a voluminous genre, so we will describe its brief content only in basic terms.
"The Adventures of Oliver Twist" begins with a story about how the main character was born in a workhouse. His mother died immediately after giving birth. Until the boy was 9 years old, no one knew who his parents were.
Oliver's early years
A few words should be said about the hero’s life in the workhouse when compiling a summary. "The Adventures of Oliver Twist" is a work that describes the difficult life of children in one of these institutions. The protagonist's infancy was not illuminated by a single affectionate glance or a single kind word. Oliver knew only beatings, hunger, deprivation and bullying. After the workhouse, he is apprenticed to an undertaker. Here the boy encounters Noe Claypole from the orphanage, who, being stronger and older, constantly humiliates Oliver. He endures it without complaint, until one day Claypole speaks ill of Twist’s mother. The boy could not bear this. He beats the stronger and tougher, but cowardly offender. Oliver is severely punished and is forced to flee from the undertaker.
Meeting with Jack Dawkins and Fagin
The boy, seeing the sign "London", heads there. Oliver spends the night in haystacks, he suffers from fatigue, cold and hunger. On the 7th day after his escape, he meets a ragamuffin his age in the town of Barnet, who introduces himself as Jack Dawkins (The Artful Dodger). He feeds the boy and promises him protection and overnight accommodation in London. The clever Dodger brings him to the buyer of stolen goods, the Jew Fagin, who is the godfather of the city's swindlers and thieves. Fagin promises Twist to teach him a trade and provide him with work, but in the meantime Oliver spends his days ripping marks off the stolen handkerchiefs that young thieves bring him.
Brownow takes the boy to his place
When he finally goes “to work” and sees with his own eyes how Charlie Bates and the Artful Dodger (his mentors) pull a handkerchief out of a gentleman’s pocket, Oliver runs in horror.
The boy is seized as a thief and brought before a judge. The gentleman, fortunately, drops the claim. He takes pity on Oliver and takes him in with him. The boy has been sick for a long time. Brownlow and Mrs. Bedwin, his housekeeper, nurse him. They are surprised at how similar this boy's facial features are to the picture of a beautiful woman hanging in the living room. Brownlow wants to adopt Oliver.
Oliver's kidnapping and a new adventure
However, the story does not end there. What does the author talk about next? You will learn about this by reading the summary. The adventures of Oliver Twist are just beginning.
Fagin, fearing that Twist will lead the law on his trail, tracks him down and kidnaps him. He wants to achieve the boy's submission, to make him a thief. To rob Fagin's house, where he is attracted by the silverware, Bill Sikes, the perpetrator of the act, needs a "fat boy" so that he can climb through the window and open the door for the robbers. The choice falls on Twist.
Oliver decides to raise the alarm in the house and not participate in the crime. However, he doesn’t make it in time: the house is guarded, and Twist, stuck halfway through the window, is wounded in the arm. The bleeding boy is pulled out by Sykes and carried away, but thrown into a ditch after hearing the chase, not knowing whether he is alive or not. Oliver, waking up, reaches the porch of the house, where Mrs. Maylie and Rose, her niece, put Twist to bed and call the doctor, deciding not to hand over the poor boy to the police.
Death of Sally
Charles Dickens ("The Adventures of Oliver Twist") takes the reader to the workhouse. A summary of the events that took place here is as follows. A poor old woman dies in this establishment. At one time, this woman looked after the boy’s mother and after her death, she robbed her. Sally (that's the old woman's name) calls Mrs. Corney, the matron. She repents that she stole a gold item that belonged to a young woman, which she asked her to keep, since this item might make people not treat her son so harshly. The old woman dies without speaking and gives the mortgage receipt to Mrs. Corney.
Nancy discovers Fagin's secret
Fagin is very concerned about the fate of Oliver and the absence of Sikes. Having lost control of himself, he carelessly shouts in the presence of Sykes's girlfriend (Nancy) that Twist is worth hundreds of pounds, and also mentions some kind of will in his speech. Pretending to be drunk, Nancy, the heroine of the novel created by Charles Dickens ("The Adventures of Oliver Twist"), lulls his vigilance. The summary continues with her eavesdropping on Fagin's conversation with Monks, a mysterious stranger. It turns out that Fagin, precisely on his orders, stubbornly turns the boy into a thief. The stranger is very afraid that Oliver has been killed and the tracks will lead to him. Fagin promises him to find Twist and deliver him dead or alive to Monks.
Oliver's Life at Mrs Maylie's
Further, the life of the main character at Mrs. Maylie's is described by Dickens ("The Adventures of Oliver Twist"). The summary introduces the reader to the fact that he is slowly recovering, surrounded by the care and sympathy of Roses, Maylie and Losburn, their family doctor. The boy tells his story without concealment. Unfortunately, it is not confirmed. When the doctor, at the boy’s request, goes with him to Brownlow, it turns out that he went to the West Indies, renting out the house. When Twist recognizes the house by the road into which Sikes took him before the robbery, Dr. Losburn finds out that the description of the owner and the rooms do not match... However, this does not make Oliver any worse. With the arrival of spring, both ladies move to the village to rest and take the boy with them. Here he encounters a disgusting-looking stranger who showers Oliver with curses and then rolls on the ground in a fit. Oliver does not attach much importance to this meeting, considering the stranger crazy. However, after a while he imagines his face next to Fagin’s face in the window. Household members come running at the boy's cry, but the search leads nowhere.
Monks gets rid of evidence of Oliver's origins
Meanwhile, Monks is not wasting any time. The summary of the novel "The Adventures of Oliver Twist" takes us to the town in which Oliver was born. Here Monks finds Mrs. Creakle, the owner of Sally's secret. By this time, the woman had managed to get married and become Mrs. Bumble. For 25 pounds he buys from her a small wallet that Sally took from Oliver's mother. It contains a gold medallion, and in the medallion there is a wedding ring and two locks of hair. The name "Agnes" is written on the inside of it. Monks throws the wallet with its contents into the river. It won't be found here.
Nancy's brave act
It is impossible not to talk about Nancy’s brave and selfless act when describing a summary of the book “The Adventures of Oliver Twist”. Returning, Monks tells Fagin what he did, and this heroine again overhears them. The girl, shocked by what she heard and reproaching herself for helping to bring Twist back by deceiving him from Brownlow and putting him to sleep with opium, Sykes, goes to Maylie and Rose. She relays everything she managed to overhear. If Twist is captured again, Fagin will receive a decent sum, which will increase many times over if he turns the boy into a thief. Nancy also reveals that the only evidence identifying Oliver is at the bottom of the river. Although Monks got Twist's money, it would have been better to achieve this in a different way - drag him through the city prisons, and then hang him on the gallows. Monks at the same time called Oliver his brother and was glad that he was with Maylie, who would give a lot to find out his origin. Nancy refuses to accept the reward and returns to Sykes, promising to walk across London Bridge every Sunday at 11 o'clock.
An unexpected meeting with Brownlow
However, there is a place for a happy accident in life, according to the author of the novel “The Adventures of Oliver Twist”. The chapter summary proceeds to its description. Roz wants to find someone to consult with. Suddenly a lucky break presents itself: Twist sees Mr. Brownlow on the street and finds out his address. Arriving at him, Roz tells him everything she knows. After listening to her, Brownlow decides to involve Losburn in this matter, as well as Grimwig, his friend, and Harry, Mrs. Maylie's son (Harry and Roz have long been in love with each other, but Roz does not say yes, fearing to damage his career and reputation with his dubious origin : The girl is Maylie's adopted niece).
The council, having discussed the situation, decides to wait until Sunday and then ask Nancy to describe Monks's appearance, or better yet, show him to them.
Fagin's Revenge
The book "The Adventures of Oliver Twist" is not without meanness this time. Only after one Sunday is it possible to wait for Nancy: for the first time, Sikes did not let the girl leave the house. Fagin, seeing that she was persistently trying to leave, sensed something was wrong. He put Noe Claypole on Nancy's watch. By this time, having robbed his undertaker, he fled to London and fell into the clutches of Fagin. Hearing his report, he flew into a frenzy: Fagin believed that Nancy had made a new boyfriend, but the matter was much more serious. Fagin decides to punish her with the wrong hands and tells Sikes that his girlfriend betrayed everyone, without specifying, of course, that she only spoke about Monks and in order to return to Sikes, she gave up money and an honest life. The calculation turned out to be correct: Sykes is furious. However, Fagin underestimated her strength: Bill brutally kills his girlfriend.
Brownlow discovers Oliver's origin story
The origin story of the main character is revealed to the reader at the end of the work by Dickens (“The Adventures of Oliver Twist”). Its summary is as follows.
Mr Brownlow begins his own investigation. Based on Nancy's description of Monks, he restores the picture of the drama that began many years ago. It turns out that the father of Edwin Lyford (real name Monks), as well as Oliver, was an old friend of Brownlow. He was unhappy in his marriage. His son had shown vicious tendencies since childhood, and Liford broke up with his first family. He fell in love with Agnes Fleming and was happy with her, but on business he was forced to go abroad. Lyford fell ill and died in Rome. His son and wife, afraid of missing out on their inheritance, came to Rome. They found an envelope addressed to Brownlow among the papers. It contained a will and a letter for Agnes. In the letter, he asked to forgive him and wear a ring and a medallion as a sign of this. In the will, Oliver's father allocated 800 pounds each to his eldest son and wife, and gave the rest of his property to Agnes and the child if he came of age. In this case, the girl unconditionally inherits the money, and the boy only on the condition that he does not tarnish his name by any shameful act. Monks's mother burned this will and kept the letter to disgrace Agnes's family. Out of shame after her visit, the girl’s father decided to change his last name and fled with both daughters to a remote corner of Wales. Soon he was found dead in bed: Agnes left home, and her father could not find her and, deciding that the girl had committed suicide, he died of a broken heart. Agnes's younger sister, who was still very young, was first taken in by the peasants to be raised, and then Mrs. Maylie (this was Rose) took her to her place.
Monks, at the age of 18, robbed his mother and ran away, and then began to indulge in all sorts of sins. However, before his death, his mother found him and told him this secret. Then Monks came up with a diabolical plan, the implementation of which was prevented by Nancy.
The further fate of the heroes
In conclusion, we are introduced to the further fate of the characters by Dickens (“The Adventures of Oliver Twist”). Mr. Brownlow, presenting irrefutable evidence, forces Monks to leave England, thereby fulfilling his father's will. So Twist found an aunt, Rose finally said “yes” to Harry, resolving her doubts about his origins, and Harry decided to become a village priest, preferring such a life to a brilliant career. Dickens (The Adventures of Oliver Twist is one of his best novels) notes that Dr. Losburne and the Mayley family became friends with Mr. Grimwig and Brownlow, who adopted Oliver. Sykes died, tormented by his conscience, before they had time to arrest him. And Fagin was executed. This is the fate that befell the characters in the novel The Adventures of Oliver Twist. The heroes, as you can see, got what they deserved.
I. Dickens is a world-famous English novelist. (Dickens knew the life of the London poor well. Since 1883, he began publishing the first works that readers liked. Reproducing the poor life, Charles Dickens exposes the true face of the English bourgeoisie, its ugly greed for money. The multifaceted novels contain intrigue, a sharp plot, a lively a description that reflects life in England in the mid-19th century.)
II. Oliver Twist is one of Charles Dickens' favorite characters. (Living in terrible poverty, Dickens, as a teenager, began to write stories about what he saw around him, supplementing with episodes from his biography.)
1. What the lives of Dickens and Oliver Twist have in common. (Dickens’s life was not cloudless. He was the grandson of a footman and the son of an official who was always trying to “get out into the world,” and everything was unsuccessful. When his father was thrown into a hole of debt, the boy had to look for work. He worked sixteen hours a day in a warehouse placing labels on jars of blacking, walked across London. He noticed everything around him, early realized the depth of the gap between rich and poor. A visit to his father in prison also added material for future books. The hero of Dickens's novel, Oliver, has neither a father nor mother. Having reached the workhouse, the poor young woman died, leaving a newborn. So Oliver found himself in this world of sadness and sorrow. A long and cruel struggle for survival began.)
2. Symbolism of the name. (Twist means “twirl and twirl.” That was the name of the youth dance. But for Dickens’s hero, he had to twist and twirl in order not to die. But despite his childish wisdom, he is actually still a small child. Don’t crying bring tears of compassion Oliver and his plaintive words: “I’m still very small... and so... lonely, sir, very lonely!”)
3. Evil characters surrounded by Oliver Twist. (Ever since life left the body of Oliver’s mother, he was surrounded by evil and cruel people. The woman dressed the newborn in a poor, yellowed magpie, and it immediately became clear that the boy was not the son of a nobleman, but “a parish pupil, an orphan from a workhouse, a fatherless , an eternally hungry beggar, who is destined to know nothing in life except kicks and flanks, who will shove everything and not pity anyone." At first, under the guidance of a summer woman on the "farm", Oliver starved, saw how the "mother's" pupils died: what a child fell into the fire or managed to suffocate, then the cradle tumbled or one of the unfortunates got scalded. Before he had time to get to his feet, the members of the board of trustees declared that the boy was already a big boy, and therefore had to earn his bread. Then Mr. Bumble and the members of the board were busy , how to inexpensively give the baby into slavery - first they tried to the chimney sweep, then they gave it to Trunarev. When Oliver escaped from the undertaker's house, unkind people appeared on his way again: the Dodger, Charlie Beite, Billy Sikes and old Fagin, who tried to make the little fugitive thief.)
4. Good Guardian Angels of Oliver Twist. (The two young ladies Beth and Nancy, who behaved very sweetly and at ease, seemed to Oliver to be magnificent girls. And the book stall owner, Mr. Brownlow and Mrs. Bedwin, truly treated the novice thief with sincerity and humanity. The little one was lucky to avoid prison, but these two people surrounded Oliver with fatherly care, which he had not yet known. With love, according to Oliver’s feelings, Dickens portrayed other kind characters - Mrs. Maylie, Rose, Harry.)
III. The problem of good and evil in Dickens's novels. (In subsequent novels “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, “The Trading House of Dombey and Son”, “Bleak House”, “Little Dorrit” and others, Dickens abandoned the one-line portrayal of good and evil. However, he expressed the most important thing in a few words: “The time will come, and a person... who boasts of his contempt for other people and proves that he is right by referring to the gold and silver he has acquired... this person will learn that all her wisdom is the madness of an idiot in comparison with a pure and simple heart.” )
The main character of the novel is Oliver Twist. He was born in a workhouse. Mom took one look at Oliver and died. As a child, he endures bullying, hunger, and does not know what parental care is. Finding himself as an undertaker's apprentice, Oliver is humiliated and bullied by the orphanage boy Noe Claypole. Twist blows everything away, but beats up a strong opponent after Noe insults his mother. Oliver is punished and runs away from the undertaker.
A boy goes to London after seeing a road sign. He meets a beggar peer - the Artful Dodger. The boy introduced himself as Jack Dawkins. In the city, the Artful Dodger introduces the hero to the leader of swindlers and thieves, Fagin. On his first outing, Oliver sees the Artful Dodger and his friend stealing a handkerchief. He is horrified and runs, but he is caught and accused of theft. The gentleman from whom the handkerchief was stolen abandoned the claim: he takes Oliver to his house. The boy has been sick for many days, he is being treated and taken care of. Brownlow and housekeeper Bedwin notice the resemblance between a boy and a young girl depicted in a portrait hanging in the living room.
But the past does not let Oliver go. Fagin kidnaps a boy and forces him to take part in a house robbery. The hero does not want to participate in the crime and decides to raise the alarm. However, he is immediately wounded in the arm. The “partner,” the beggar boy Sikes from Fagin’s company, throws Oliver into a ditch to escape pursuit. The hero comes to his senses and barely gets to the porch of the house. There Roz and her aunt Mrs. Maylie put the boy to bed and go to the doctor. They are not going to hand him over to the police.
Old Sally died in the workhouse. It was this woman who looked after the hero’s mother, and after her death, she robbed her. Sally tells the warden that she stole a gold item from the hero’s mother, gives the mortgage receipt to Corny and dies.
Nancy finds out that Fagin is making a thief out of the hero on the orders of a stranger. The stranger Monks demands that Fagin find Oliver and bring him to him.
The hero is surrounded by care and gradually recovers. He told his story, but nothing could confirm it. Brownlow left. But the attitude towards Oliver does not change for the worse. Then both women go with him to the village. There he meets a stranger and mistakes him for a madman. Then he sees the same man at the window with Fagin. The household members come running to Oliver's cry, but they cannot find the aliens.
Monks found Corny and bought a tiny wallet from her. It was taken from Oliver's mother's neck. Inside there is a medallion with a wedding ring and curls, on the inside there was an engraving: “Agnes”. Monks threw the wallet into the stream. He then tells Fagin about this. Nancy hears everything and goes to Rose to tell her what is happening. She tells her the story in detail, says that Monks called the hero brother. Nancy then returns to the gang, asking not to give her away. Roz and Oliver find Brownlow and give him everything. Now they need a description of the stranger's appearance. They get it from Nancy. Fagin suspects Nancy and finds out about her affairs. He decides to punish her and tells Sykes that she has made herself a boyfriend. Bill Sikes kills a girl.
Brownlow begins to investigate. Edwin Lyford is the stranger's name. He is Oliver's brother. Their father was friends with Brownlow. He suffered in his marriage, his son was vicious even in his youth. Oliver's father fell in love with Agnes Fleming, but, having gone to Rome on business, fell ill and died. They found an envelope with my father's will. He allocated part of the money to his eldest son and wife, leaving Agnes the rest. The boy will receive an inheritance if he does not tarnish his honor. But the will was burned by Monks' mother. The letter was kept to shame Agnes. Her father died. Agnes's younger sister is Rose, Mrs. Maylie's adopted niece. Monks runs away from home at 18 and commits a lot of crimes. His mother tells him about the history of the family, he sets himself the goal of discrediting his brother. Under pressure from Brownlow, Monks leaves England.
Fagin was arrested and executed, Sykes died. Oliver finds a family, Rose agrees to Harry (her admirer), who became a priest instead of pursuing a career.
Personality: secretive, cunning
Characteristics: Thief. Extremely dangerous. He has criminal inclinations, but never takes risks himself, using young, fragile minds for criminal purposes. Greedy. Unprincipled. Cruel.
Special features: red hair, repulsive appearance.
"Oliver Twist" is directed against the "poor law", against workhouses, against existing political economic concepts that lull public opinion with promises of happiness and prosperity for the majority. Only Oliver Twist achieves happiness, and even then thanks to the romantic mood of the author, who is confident that Oliver’s purity, purity of soul, and his perseverance in the face of life’s difficulties need reward. However, it would be a mistake to consider that a novel is the author’s fulfillment of his social mission. “Oliver Twist” was also a kind of civil response by Dickens to the dominance at that time of the so-called Newgate novel, in which the story of thieves and criminals was told exclusively in melodramatic and romantic tones, and the lawbreakers themselves were a type of Superman, very attractive to readers.
The Byronic hero moved into a criminal environment. Dickens opposed the idealization of crime and those who commit it. Dickens is busy exploring the mechanism of evil, its impact on humans; goodness is realized in him in the images of Mr. Brownlow and Oliver Twist himself, Rose Maylie. The most prominent were the images of Feigin, Sykes, and Nancy. However, Nancy has some attractive character traits and even shows tender affection for Oliver, but she also pays cruelly for it. In the preface to the book, Dickens clearly stated the essence of his plan: “It seemed to me that to portray real members of a criminal gang, to draw them in all their ugliness, with all their vileness, to show their wretched, miserable life, to show them as they really are , - they always sneak, overwhelmed with anxiety, along the dirtiest paths of life, and wherever they look, a black terrible gallows looms before them - it seemed to me that to depict this means to try to do what is necessary and what will serve to society. And I did it to the best of my ability.” True, the realistic depiction of the London bottom and its inhabitants in this novel is often colored with romantic and sometimes melodramatic tones. Oliver Twist, having gone through the life school of Feigin, who taught him the art of thieves, remains a virtuous and pure child. He feels unfit for the craft that the old swindler is pushing him into, but he feels at ease and free in Mr. Brownlow’s cozy bedroom, where he immediately draws attention to the portrait of a young woman, who later turned out to be his mother.
Evil permeates every corner of London, most of all it is widespread among those whom society has doomed to poverty, slavery and suffering. But perhaps the darkest pages in the novel are those dedicated to workhouses. Liquid oatmeal three times a day, two onions a week and half a loaf on Sundays - this was the meager ration that supported the pitiful, always hungry workhouse boys, who had been shaking hemp since six o'clock in the morning. When Oliver, driven to despair by hunger, timidly asks the warden for more porridge, the boy is considered a rebel and locked in a cold closet. Unlike the previous novel, in this work the narrative is colored with gloomy humor, the narrator seems to have difficulty believing that the events taking place belong to a civilized England that boasts of its democracy and justice. There is a different pace of the story here: short chapters are filled with numerous events that make up the essence of the adventure genre. In the fate of little Oliver, adventures turn out to be misadventures when the ominous figure of Monks, Oliver's brother, appears on the scene, who, in order to receive an inheritance, tries to destroy the main character by conspiring with Fagin and forcing him to make a thief out of Oliver. In this novel by Dickens, the features of a detective story are palpable, but both professional servants of the law and enthusiasts who fell in love with the boy and wanted to restore the good name of his father and return the inheritance that legally belongs to him are involved in the investigation of Twist’s secret. The nature of the episodes is also different. Sometimes the novel sounds melodramatic notes. This is especially clearly felt in the scene of the farewell of little Oliver and Dick, the hero’s doomed friend, who dreams of dying as soon as possible in order to get rid of cruel torments - hunger, punishment and overwork. Of particular importance in “The Adventures of Oliver Twist” are the social motivations for people’s behavior, which determined certain traits of their characters.
The negative characters of the novel are carriers of evil, bitter with life, immoral and cynical. Predators by nature, always profiting at the expense of others, they are disgusting, too grotesque and caricatured to be believable, although they do not leave the reader in doubt that they are true. Thus, the head of a gang of thieves, Feigin, loves to enjoy the sight of stolen gold things. He can be cruel and merciless if he is disobeyed or his cause is harmed. The figure of his accomplice Sykes is drawn in more detail than all of Feigin's other accomplices. Dickens combines grotesque, caricature and moralizing humor in his portrait. This is “a strongly built subject, a fellow of about thirty-five, in a black corduroy frock coat, very dirty short dark trousers, lace-up shoes and gray paper stockings that covered thick legs with bulging calves - such legs with such a suit always give the impression of something unfinished if they are not decorated with shackles.” This “cute” character keeps a “dog” named Flashlight to deal with children, and even Feigin himself is not afraid of him.
In The Adventures of Oliver Twist, critical intonations are associated mainly with the characters who protect order and legality in the state. Positive characters, such as Mr. Brownlow, Rose Maley, Harry Maley, Oliver, are drawn in the traditions of educational literature, that is, they emphasize natural kindness, decency, and honesty.
The narrative line of the novel has strong didactic elements, or rather, moral and moralizing ones, which in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club were only inserted episodes, but in this novel by Dickens they form an integral part of the story, explicit or implied, expressed in a humorous or sad tone, but the ending both novels are the same. A happy ending crowns the development of intrigue. All the villains leave the stage - their machinations have been unraveled, so their role is played. Monks dies in the New World, having received part of the inheritance intended for Oliver, Fagin is executed, Claypole becomes an informant, the Bumbley couple end up in a workhouse, Sykes dies while fleeing pursuit. Dickens the humanist rewards his positive characters - Brownlow adopts Oliver, Rose is happy with Harry.
(English Oliver Twist), the hero of Charles Dickens's novel “The Adventures of Oliver Twist” (1837-1839), an orphan boy, the illegitimate son of Edward Lyford and Agnes Fleming. O.T. is the hero of a combination of a “novel of education” and a “novel of wanderings.” Typologically, this image is associated with such heroes as, for example, Fielding's Tam Jones or George Sand's Conzuelo, for whom wandering is a form of gaining life experience. In addition, he is also an example of the embodiment of Dickens’ archetype of the “pursued child,” which is stable in his novel world. FROM. - the only Dickensian child hero who remained a child until the end of the novel, and - what is important - alive and prosperous. At the same time, O.T. is a psychologically rather conditional personality. The situation of “upbringing” (being pursued by London scum in the company of a villainous relative) rather allows us to discover who O.T. unlike, say, his peer the Dodger (undoubtedly, according to Dickens, born for his robbery profession) he never becomes: a thief, a liar and a cynic. By his very nature, he is not initially just a sensitive and kind boy, which Dickens often found among the inhabitants of the bottom of London. Despite the fact that O. was born and raised in a workhouse, his speech, behavior and, most importantly, way of thinking are noble and aristocratic. FROM. a born gentleman. The noble nature, even the breed, is not eradicated in him by any “education” and “educators”, among whom is one of Dickens’s most colorful characters - the old Jew Fagin, the sinister Karabas-Bara-bass of the London street children serving in his theater - a school of theft. FROM. experienced many hardships and suffering, but fate was generally favorable to him. Persecution and persecution do not last forever. He turns out to be a rich heir. Due to the family resemblance of O.T. different people who knew his father or mother recognize him; twice during his “wanderings” he finds himself under the protection of good people - both times they are acquaintances or relatives of his parents. As a result, O.T. finds his own aunt and adoptive father, and his adventures end. It is significant that Dickens does not find room in the epilogue traditional for his novels for any specific description of the life of O.T. in new conditions. After all, its brightest, although certainly difficult, period has ended. Like a typical Dickensian child hero (if one manages to survive the dangerous age of childhood), O.T. can easily get lost in a prosperous world, losing any remarkableness.
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