Oliver Twist is a realistic novel published by Charles Dickens in 1838 and is his first important novel on social issues. With Foggy London as the background, the novel tells the tragic life and experience of an orphan: the protagonist Oliver growing up in a workhouse is an orphan and do not know who his parents are. After nine years of torture in the workhouse, he was apprenticed to a funeral shop, where he was badly treated. As he can’t stand it anymore, he fled to London alone and unfortunately was deceived into a gang when he just arrived. It was a gang of thieves and robbers, led by Fagin, an old Jew. With a few exceptions, others were boys and girls who had been led astray. Fagin group turned Oliver into their crime tools with threat, inducement and indoctrination. After countless hardships and several twists and turns, Oliver was finally rescued from the gang by his father’s friends. Later, he lived a happy life after finding relatives and getting the heritage.
