The Dodger buys Oliver a meal and offers him a place to stay with an older gentleman in London. Oliver runs away for London, in order to “seek fortune” (78).Īfter long days of walking, Oliver meets the Artful Dodger, a young boy who dresses like an older man. Sowerberry and Charlotte have incapacitated Oliver. Sowerberry run in to help they punch, scratch, and beat Oliver. Noah cries out for help and Charlotte and Mrs. One day, Noah insults Oliver’s mother and Oliver punches Noah. Sowerberry, and forced to attend child funerals as a mourner by Mr. There, Oliver is bullied by Noah and Charlotte, mistreated and underfed by Mrs. Oliver joins Noah Claypole, a charity boy, and Charlotte, a housemaid, at the Sowerberrys. Sowerberry, an undertaker, takes Oliver on as an apprentice instead. Gamfield but a kind magistrate notices Oliver’s terror and spares him. Oliver is almost sent away with a cruel chimneysweep by the name of Mr. They fear that Oliver will start a rebellion and offer to pay £5 to anyone willing to take Oliver on as an apprentice. The board does not believe Oliver’s audacity and is absolutely scandalized.
Driven to starvation and egged on by a few other young boys, Oliver begs for more food: “Please, sir, I want some more” (20). Paupers work long hours sustained only on gruel, food that is made precisely to slowly starve the impoverished and keep the deep pockets of the church full.
Mann, it is decided that Oliver is old enough to enter the workhouse, where he picks oakum. After nine years under the charge of Mrs.
There, Oliver is subjected to torture, neglect, and starvation. Orphaned at birth, Oliver is raised in numerous government and church-run workhouses.
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