Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens,the greatest representative of English critical realism, was born in 1812 at England. He is regarded as the “king of the novel in British literature”. And he has many popular works, such as: Oliver Twist, A Tale Of Two Cities, Great Expectation and so on.
And now what I want to introduce to you is one of his most famous books-Oliver Twist.
Oliver Twist was written in 1838. The novel was set in the foggy city——London. It tells us a story about an orphan whose name is Oliver. Oliver without parents grow up in an orphanage, he lives a turbulent life and has experienced many difficulties in the world: apprenticeship, hard fleeing, into a den of thieves, forced to live with the assailants.
From this book we can see the poor boy Oliver has a bitter childhood: terrible living conditions ,the food is too bad to eat ,without freedom and no happy in life. But finally, with help from lots of good people, he found his origin and have a happy life. As the saying goes, the good are well rewarded. No matter how difficult, Oliver didn’t surrender to fate, this is where I most admire him. He has a good heart from beginning to end, so he has a good solution in the end.
Like Dickens’ other novels, the book revealed many social reality in the nineteenth century. For example: child laborer, poorhouse and some other disadvantages. And this book has effected one and another generations.
