The story takes place in England in the poor part of London many years ago. One day, a poor pregnant woman, was tired, because she had walked a long way to go to the town. She was tired; the pregnant woman suddenly fell asleep on the street. An old woman found her laying on the street. She took care of her until, the doctor came. The poor pregnant woman began to cry, because she knew she would not survive the birth. She gave a gold chain to the women, and said she had to give it to her son. The old woman had no money; therefor she took it for herself.
When the baby was born, she held him in her arms, and said his name is Oliver. After she said t, she died. . Oliver spends the first nine years of his life in a badly run home for young orphans and then he transfers to a workhouse for adults. After the other boys bully Oliver into asking for more gruel at the end of a meal, Mr. Bumble, the parish beadle, offers five pounds to anyone who will take the boy away from the workhouse. Oliver narrowly escapes being apprenticed to a brutish chimney sweep and was eventually apprenticed to a local undertaker, Mr. Sowerberry. When the undertaker was other apprentice, Noah Claypole, makes disparaging comments about Oliver’s mother, Oliver attacks him and incurs the Sowerberrys’ wrath. Desperate, Oliver runs away at dawn and travels toward London.
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