Write about the fate of Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist is a main character of Charles Dickens's second novel «Parish Boy's Progress». Oliver is an orphan, born into a life of poverty and misfortune. He spends the first nine years of his life living in a workhouse with little food and few comforts. Undertaker takes Oliver into his service and uses him as a mourner at children's funerals. In a workhouse Oliver doesn’t have any friend and regularly endures insults. But the turning point is when one boy named Noah insults Oliver's mother. Main character assaults and hits this boy. Being witnesses of this situation, adults take Noah side. And this injustice breaks down Oliver. The next day Oliver decides to escape from the workhouse and run away to London to seek a better life.
In London Oliver meets members of a juvenile pickpockets gang who gives him lodgings and food. So Oliver lives with a gang in their lair for some time, unaware of their criminal occupations. He thinks they just make wallets and handkerchiefs. Oliver was once caught at the scene of a crime, when the gang picked a pocket. But he is justified in a court, thanks to a witness, who says, that Oliver is no related to theft. So court justifies Oliver and Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver home wishing to grow up the boy. But Fagin, the head of the gang, fearing Oliver might tell the police about his criminal gang, brings him back. Fagin forces him to participate in a burglary. He wants Oliver to become one of them. But there Oliver is shot in his left arm and ends up under the care of the people he was supposed to rob.
The gang develops a new plan to bring the boy back, but it doesn't lead to anything good. As a result Fagin is arrested and condemned to death. Mr. Brownlow adopts Oliver and gives him a better live.
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