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Explanation:The good old 1800’s, the century of complete social change, and the time in which the middle class was yet to exist. Oliver Twist happens to be born in this crazy century and he isn’t born into one of the wealthy families you would normally imagine when you think of the 1800s. Oliver was born to the lowest of lows, he was born to someone of whom he knew no name, no address, and no money. His father never shows up to find him and his mother ‘dies from holding him’, causing his life as a child to be miserable. He grows up in a group home before moving to a workhouse at the age of nine. The children at the workhouse are heavily underfed and eventually decide to draw lots and force the unlucky child picked to go up to Mr. Bumble the parish beadle and ask for more food and of course, Oliver is a lucky tribute. Now due to the fact that we aren’t even a quarter of the way through the book, we don’t imagine that this encounter will end at all well… and we’re right. When Oliver asks for more Mr. Bumble is completely horrified and instantaneously puts up an advertisement out the front of the workhouse offering Oliver and five pounds (about $150 today) to anyone who would take him.Oliver, being mentally distraught after being beaten for the unremarkable act of merely asking for seconds without any way of him opting out of the predestined flogging he was imminently going to receive, was in no state of mind to be flung into a new circumstance. Consequently, he started doing what any other eleven-year-old would be doing in his situation. He cried and cried and struggled to understand why.
Pretty soon after being flogged for the forgivable act of asking for seconds Oliver is taken in by an undertaker and his wife. In his time at the undertaker’s, he is only liked by the undertaker himself and everyone else in the house sees him as little more than an animal.