What is the summary of Oliver Twist?

Answer 1

Short version: Oliver is about an orphan who runs away from an orphanage because he got in trouble for asking for more food. He ends up living with a group of boys that are trained professionals at pickpocketing by an old mentor. Oliver ends up getting in trouble but catches a bad man and earns tons of money. Oliver then becomes really rich and becomes a great grandfather.

Long Version: Oliver Twist was a young orphan. He worked and lived at a workhouse. One day he picked the short straw and had to ask the cook for some more food. This is probably the most famous lines in the book and film, "Please sir, may I have have some more?".

Of course there was a consequence to that question and the Head man of the workhouse, Mr. Bumble, took Oliver out into the streets and asked if anyone wanted to buy the young boy from him. A family who built coffins and directed funerals decided to take him in. A adolescent boy from that family insulted Oliver's mother, (who is dead), and that started a fight. Oliver was thrown in the cellar.

Luckily Oliver managed to escape from that dreadful place. He saw a sign to London and decided to head that way.

When Oliver eventually arrived in London he met a boy. He was known as the 'Artful Dodger'. Oliver learned that his little friend was a pickpocket. Artful Dodger took Oliver to his home, where other boys like him lived.

The master of them all was an old man called Fagin. Fagin was a good, down-to-earth man, who lived of his boys success.

On Oliver's first day pickpocketing he went with Artful Dodger, so that he could gain some experience before he did it himself. Unfortunately he was caught, even though it was his friend's dirty work!

Oliver was now in court, charged for theft. But luckily there was an eyewitness who told the truth about what had happened. Oliver thanked the kind man and he told him that he was an orphan. Oliver found out that the man was called Mr. Brownlow.

It didn't take long for Mr. Brownlow to decide on fostering Oliver! Oliver got on Mr. Brownlow's horse and carriage and went to his expensive home. Oliver quickly settled down. In his dreams he wished and wished he could live in a house like this and be cared by someone!

Bill Sikes and his girlfriend, Nancy worked for Fagin. Bill was a very violent and unforgiving man and was scared that Oliver would tell everyone about Fagin and his business. Bill and Nancy had to go and get Oliver back by kidnapping him! Nancy wasn't too keen on that idea because she was a very caring and lovely person and she thinks that Oliver deserves to live a good and free life.

Bill forced Nancy to come and they succeeded in their task of kidnapping Oliver. When they arrived at Fagin's place, Oliver didn't like what had happened and he slapped Bill. Bill took his belt off and wanted to beat Oliver. Nancy stopped him but she was slapped by Bill. She stormed out of the room. Even though Nancy hated Bill for what he did, she still loved him and she thought that Bill needed her.

No matter what happened Bill wasn't going to let Oliver go anywhere, so he couldn't go back to Mr. Brownlow's house.

One night Bill, Fagin, Oliver and Nancy went to the nearby pub. (This was where Nancy worked). Bill ordered his dog, Bullseye to guard Oliver.

Nancy had a plan to get Oliver and take him back to Mr. Brownlow. Earlier before they went to the pub Nancy went to Mr. Brownlow's house and told him everything that had happened. She told him to meet her on London Bridge at midnight because she would have Oliver.

First of all Nancy started off a song, slowly everyone else joined in as they were drunk and it all became very loud and she quickly got Oliver. Of course Bullseye barked but Bill couldn't hear him! Nancy got a head start on Bill but eventually realised what had happened. He quickly got up onto his feet and followed Nancy to the London Bridge.

As Nancy was walking up the stairs to meet Mr. Brownlow, Bill caught and carried her back down the stairs. He took her behind a wall and started beating her! As Bill came back there was blood on his shirt and Oliver knew that Nancy was dead. Bullseye was now terrified of Bill and he ran off. A crowd of people heard all this noise and commotion and ran up to Mr. Brownlow to ask what had happened. Suddenly there was a massive search party to find the murderer, Bill!

Bill carried Oliver all the way to Fagin's house. Fagin was worried as there was blood on Bill's shirt. Bill said that Nancy wasn't going to be interfering anymore. Fagin realised what this actually meant.

Outside Bill heard Bullseye's bark, followed by cries of outrage. Bullseye had taken the crowd to Fagin's secret home! Bill escaped yet again with Oliver down the street. He climbed up some stairs and told Oliver to climb up on a beam and tie a piece of rope to it so Bill could swing over the alley. Oliver managed to do the task and slowly climbed back down. Bill wrapped the rope around him and swung to the other side he couldn't hold onto the other side. Bill tried a couple more times but he accidentally hung himself! The police ran up the stairs and rescued Oliver.

A few days later Oliver was back in Mr. Brownlow's house and learnt about his mother. His mother was friends with Mr. Brownlow!

Oliver was very happy where he was at that moment in time and he didn't want to go anywhere else!

By Anais..

Answer 2

Dickens uses his own experiences for the first time in Oliver Twist, and begins by depicting how social institutions and bureaucracies oppress poor children. But the prevailing message is how Good prevails undefiled by Evil.

Answer 3

Oliver is born in a workhouse to an unknown mother, who dies in childbirth. The workhouse beadle, the pompous and self-important Mr Bumble, gives him the name "Oliver Twist".

The boys are harshly treated, and when Oliver is urged by the other boys to ask for more food, he is removed from the workhouse and apprenticed to Sowerberry, an undertaker. This is not a long-term arrangement, because a fight with Sowerberry's other apprentice, Noah Claypole, leads to Oliver finding himself on the streets to fend for himself.

Oliver makes his way to London, where he is soon found by Jack Dawkins, otherwise known as the Artful Dodger, who takes him to meet Fagin, a receiver of stolen goods and the proprietor of a thieves' kitchen from which boys are sent out to pick pockets and commit petty crimes.

Oliver's training as a pickpocket is short and disastrous, as he is apprehended when the real thieves bungle a theft but escape, leaving Oliver to face the music. The victim, Mr Brownlow, is, however, convinced that Oliver is innocent and secures his release when he is brought before the magistrate. Brownlow takes Oliver home with him, and word of this gets back to Fagin, whose concern is that Oliver will lead the Bow Street Runners to his den.

Oliver wins Mr Brownlow's trust and is sent on an errand, but the house is being watched, and Oliver is kidnapped by two associates of Fagin, namely the housebreaker Bill Sikes and Nancy, a young prostitute.

Sikes sees Oliver's small size and native intelligence as an asset to him, and he takes Oliver to help him on a "job". However, Oliver is clearly a jinx when it comes to criminal enterprises, and he ends up with a bullet in his shoulder. The occupants of the house, Rose Maylie and her aunt, behave in a similar way to Mr Brownlow, taking Oliver in and caring for him as an innocent victim of a criminal gang.

We now meet Monks, who turns out to be Oliver's half-brother, and who wants Oliver out of the way so that he, Monks, can inherit a fortune.

Nancy is concerned for Oliver's welfare and tells both Rose and Mr Brownlow about Oliver's whereabouts. However, Noah Claypole now makes a re-appearance, as an informer, and word gets back to Sikes, who brutally murders Nancy.

Things now unravel as Sikes falls to his death while being chased and Fagin is arrested and condemned to be hanged. The chain of coincidences leads to the revelations that Oliver is Rose's nephew, and his mother was once loved by Mr Brownlow.

Answer 4

its about a orphan called oliver twist he was born in a workhouse and escaped and met a group of pickpockets in London .

Answer 5

You have to that story carefully then you will find the summary too easy.