Oliver Twist
I hate this book! I hate it, I hate it, I hate it! Oliver Twist, written by Charles Dickens, has to be one of the worst books I have ever read. Everything in this book was sad, gloomy, and wrong. There was no happiness at all in this book. I picked this book because someone recommended it to me as being very good, but they didn't tell me that it would be this sad. The book was actually very well written. Charles Dickens did an excellent job of portraying the way life was in the 1830's in England. I didn't like this book because it was a book about poverty, unfairness, and mistreatment. But, that is exactly why the book was written, so I will just pick out three different examples. One of my main reasons for disliking this book was the books tone. As soon as I started reading this book, I began to dislike it. It begins with a sickly infant child, Oliver, being born in a poor workhouse. His mother dies immediately after death, which sets the tone for the rest of the book. After nine months, he is sent to a branch workhouse for juvenile offenders who have broken the law by begging. The lady that runs the workhouse
Another incident that I didn't like at all was the killing of Nancy, who is one of Fagin's former pickpockets. She is killed by a man named Bill Sikes, her lover and member of the pickpocket gang. She is killed because Bill learns that Nancy it trying to help Oliver. She has discovered that he actually is the rightful inheritor of much wealth, but nobody is aware of this because the next-in-line inheritor, Oliver's unknown brother, Mr. Monks, has concealed Oliver's true identity. Fagin has one of his junior members of the gang, Noah, shadow her on one of her nightly excursions onto the London bridge. There, Noah overhears Nancy talking to Mr. Brownlow, the gentleman that took Oliver under his care after he was falsely accused of pick pocketing him. Noah reports what he hears, which puts Sikes into a wild rage. When Nancy returns, Sikes, who is still full of anger, beats her to death. Luckily, the man named Mr. Monks was captured later on, or else the only hope for Oliver to have a good life would have died with Nancy. This book, while well written, did not agree with me at all. I never enjoyed reading this book. This book was a sad, gloomy story of how unf
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