Oliver Twist is a small orphan who runs away from the workhouse because of bad conditions. In London he gets to a group of thieves and prostitutes where the leader of them , The Jew, tries to make him to become thief. He is saved by his own family. At the end we get known that Oliver Twist is a rich man at all because he inherited a lot of money.

This Dickens' work belongs to realism. Dickens tries to describe real life, situations which could happen in reality. He doesn't use any colourful descriptions, words which could make the life of Oliver Twist more beautiful or better. Dickens uses Characters from all parts of society. He de

After the time spending in workhouse and in Mr Sowerberry's business Oliver runs away to London. In this part the author gives us detailed description of the London underworld, little thieves, gangsters, prostitutes. He tries to correct people's opinion about the criminals. Afer the publication of Newgate calendar and other "Newgate novels" people begin to believe that criminals are not so bad. So he doesn't use any colourful words to make reality more beautiful. It can be seen for example in the description of the Jew (Fagin0 who is the leader of these criminals "...was a very old shrivelled Jew, whose villainous-looking and repulsive face was obscured by a quantity of matted red hair. " Also character of Sikes shows cruel reality, he doesn't have any inhibition to do crimes, at the end he murders his mistress Nancy in very cruel way without any remorses.

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