Oliver Twist is the first novel in the English language, it was written in 1838 by Charles Dickens. The other book with a similar name to this is "The Parish Boy's Progress". It was an early example of the social novel, the book calls the public's attention to realise the contemporary evil, including Poor Law that stated poor people who were employed to work in low quality workhouses with low wages.
Oliver Twist, an infant was born of the dying mother in a Parish workhouse. He was born into a life of poverty and he is forced to live and work in a workhouse in an unnamed town. He has to witness the death of his mother at very young age and his father’s unexplained absence. Therefore, he had to spend his first nine years in a poor rundown workhouse. 
After he was bullied into asking for a second bowl of meal by a strict chef, he was forced to leave the workhouse. Oliver was sent into a family, at this place he was commented by a boy who was the same age as him. Oliver attacked him and was then forced to run away. Later on, he met Jack, a boy his age who offered him shelter at the house of his boss, Fagin. Fagin trains boys to pick pockets, which is what Oliver learns to do.
During, a pick pocketing occurred Oliver was sicken when others stole the pocket from the elderly man. He was caught but then he was saved by the same elderly man who tried to get him back to his usual life. But Fagin didn’t give up easily and he and the other boys recaptured Oliver later. What will happen to Oliver at the end? Will he be able to escape from the Fagin?
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