Reading next to a lighthouse always has advantages, the lighthouse can protect you from the wind, form the rain, it gives you shade during the day, and light at night, romance at sunset, peace, freedom, inspiration, and special company. Maybe you'll find a white pigeon on the top of the lighthouse, or a cat will be placed by your face. Sooner or later a fisherman will come with his noisy children and wishes to fish. It's also time to dream, why not ? about the Oliver Twist's adventures...
Take your time to read, relax and dream...
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A romantic lighthouse in front of a giant lion.
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...Sometimes the sea is very angry...
The Oliver Twist's father was Charles Dickens (1812-1870), one of the most representative British writers of the XIX century.
He masterfully combined narrative, humor, tragic sense and irony with acid social criticism, and a sharp description of people and places, as much real as imaginary. In his extensive work we find famous titles as David Copperfield, Grandes Esperanzas and Oliver Twist. From this last have been performed numerous films adaptations that have been very successful, as the director's version David Lean, in 1948, and the latest , in 2005, by Roman Polanski, with the young actor Barney Clark, as the protagonist.
Argument Summary : Oliver Twist was born in a workhouse. He was an orphan, his mother was dying in a parish workhouse. The orphans at the workhouse are starving and they decide who among them will ask for more food on behalf of the group. Oliver will be chosen, and for this reason, he is branded as a troublemaker, and is offered as an apprenticed to an undertaker, but due to some unpleasant and unfair incidents Oliver escapes the undertaker's and go to London.
On the outskirts of the town, Oliver very tired meets Jack Dawkins who offers a place to stay, and there, he also knows the band of thieves run by the sinister Fagin.
Oliver very innocent goes "to work" with Dawkins but soon he'll be involved in a robber and he is wrongly accussed. Fortunately, Mr Brownlow, a gentelman, discovers the mistake, and Oliver is taken by the kindly Brownlow to his home to recuperate. After a period of recuperation, Oliver is sent on a errand by Mr. Brownlow to pay a merchant and to return some books, but along the way he is captured and returned to Fagin's den of thieves. Then Mr. Brownlow thinking that Oliver has run away with his money, he thinks that Oliver is also a thief.
Again with the dangerous gang, Oliver is forced by Fagin in an attempt robbery but the robbery is foiled and Oliver is shot. The owners of the house, The Maylies, care for Oliver, and Mrs.Maylie and Rose (her nice) took Oliver to he countryside, where the pure air, and all the pleasure and beauties of spring, helped him restored. Then Oliver tells his story to the Maylies and Dr. Losberne.
On the outskirts of the town, Oliver very tired meets Jack Dawkins who offers a place to stay, and there, he also knows the band of thieves run by the sinister Fagin.
Oliver very innocent goes "to work" with Dawkins but soon he'll be involved in a robber and he is wrongly accussed. Fortunately, Mr Brownlow, a gentelman, discovers the mistake, and Oliver is taken by the kindly Brownlow to his home to recuperate. After a period of recuperation, Oliver is sent on a errand by Mr. Brownlow to pay a merchant and to return some books, but along the way he is captured and returned to Fagin's den of thieves. Then Mr. Brownlow thinking that Oliver has run away with his money, he thinks that Oliver is also a thief.
Again with the dangerous gang, Oliver is forced by Fagin in an attempt robbery but the robbery is foiled and Oliver is shot. The owners of the house, The Maylies, care for Oliver, and Mrs.Maylie and Rose (her nice) took Oliver to he countryside, where the pure air, and all the pleasure and beauties of spring, helped him restored. Then Oliver tells his story to the Maylies and Dr. Losberne.
After many adventures some important familiy secrets were discovered, one of them is that Oliver had a step brother, Monks, and it was Mr. Brownlow who makes the discovery. It seems that a feeble, ragged, neglected child, was cast in his way by a stronger hand than chance, and rescued by him from a life of vice and infamy.
Definitely you have to read this passionate story, but I advance that Fagin was taken, brought to court. and convicted. Sentence of death was passed upon him. Monks travelled to the New World, where he succumbed to a life of violence and crime.
Mr. Brownlow adopted Oliver as his son, and they moved to a small cottage a mile away from the house of Maylies. So, the wish of Oliver's warm heart, to remain close to his friends, was granted.
I think this is a novel not only for children but for adults as well.
Children can learn some values such as generosity, and how poverty and lack of education can influence or determinate a life of crime, but of course this is not always true.
Oliver Twist is also an interesting novel for adults, an exemple of social and spiritual novel, social because describes the effects of the industrialism on 19 th century in England, a miserable existence, poverty... Dickens enlarges on this theme, describing slums so decrepit that whole role of houses are on the point of ruin. A portayal of criminals and their sordid lives, and the recruitment of children as criminals at this time. On the other hand, Oliver born for better things, and with his warm heart struggles to survive in the savage world of the underclass before finally be returned to his proper place, surrounded by his loved ones.
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