The Dodger tells Oliver he can come with him to a place where a gentleman will give him a place to sleep and food, for no rent. When he is close, he is so weak he can barely continue, and he meets another boy named Jack Dawkins, or the artful Dodger. It is not great there either, and after an attack on his mother’s memory, Oliver runs away. Bumble, the beadle, and the board are outraged, and decide they must get rid of Oliver, apprenticing him to the parochial undertaker, Mr. On the appointed day, after finishing his first serving of gruel, he goes up and asks for more. The other boys, unable to stand their hunger any longer, decide to draw straws to choose who will have to go up and ask for more food. When he turns nine, he is sent to the workhouse, where again he and the others are treated badly and practically starved. She dies right after giving birth to him, and he is sent to the parochial orphanage, where he and the other orphans are treated terribly and fed very little. Oliver is born in a workhouse, to a mother not known to anyone in the town. Oliver Twist is the story of a young orphan, Oliver, and his attempts to stay good in a society that refuses to help.
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