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The Book Review of “Oliver Twist”
Today, we will discuss about the reasons leading to the whole ending. “Oliver Twist”, one of the most famous works of Charles Dickens, is a novel reflecting the tragic fact of the life in Britain in 18th century. It is the story of a young orphan named Oliver Twist whose mother died while giving birth in an old workhouse. He has moved around through different orphanages and finally run away to London. On the way to London, he meets a nice boy named Jack Dawkins, also known as the Dager who gave the poor orphan a place to stay and something to eat. However, Oliver found out that his new “friends” were thieves and they forced Oliver to help them with a robbery. Then,Oliver is rescued by the intervention of a benefactor - Mr Brownlow - but the mysterious Monks gets the gang to kidnap the boy again.
Through the novel, Dickens confronts the question of the terrible environment he depicts have the power to “blacken the soul and change its for ever.” By examining the fates of most of the characters, we can assume that the answer is that they do characters like Sikes and Fagin seem to have sustained permanent damage to their moral sensibilities. Yet even Sikes has a conscience, which manifests itself in the apparition of Nancyˊs eyes that hunts him after he murders her. Charley Bates maintains enough of a sense of decency to try to capt