Riassunto del libro, OLIVER TWIST, Guide, Progetti e Ricerche di Italiano

Scarica Riassunto del libro, OLIVER TWIST e più Guide, Progetti e Ricerche in PDF di Italiano solo su Docsity! Oliver Twist Summary The novel began in the early 1800s. A young woman arrived at a workhouse in a small town north of London; here she gave birth to a boy and then died. The child was given the name Oliver Twist and was put into a workhouse orphanage until the age of nine, when he was transferred to the workhouse itself. All the young boys were mistreated and half-starved. When Oliver asked for more food he was thrown out, and became apprenticed to the local undertaker (one who arranges funerals); but again he was ill-treated; after months of abuse he ran away to London, where he fell among thieves. They took him about pickpocketing but the first time he was sent with two other boys to steal, he was horrified to see them pick the pocket of an old gentleman, and ran away. An angry mob of people cornered him, suspecting that he was the thief, and he was arrested. Fortunately for him Mr. Brownlow, the pickpocket’s victim, is convinced of his innocence and takes him to his house. Here Oliver, for the first time in his life, was treated with compassion and benevolence. But his troubles were far from over. The gang of thieves kidnapped him and obliged him to burgle a house. During the robbery he cried out to warn the people living there while shots were fired and Oliver was wounded. The owner of the house, Mrs Maylie, and her adopted daughter Rose were sorry and took care of him. Meanwhile, a mysterious man named Monks, who had previously paid the gang leader to turn Oliver into a thief, turned out to be Oliver’s half-brother. Monks wanted to discredit Oliver’s reputation in order to exclude him from their deceased father’s rich inheritance.