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Book Report: Oliver Twist

When I was a freshman, I have read the novel Oliver Twist and also seen the movie, but I did not really know its true meaning that it contains. This year I gain a chance to study English literature and therefore I have studied Oliver Twist further.

After reading the novel I was pity for Oliver’ experience, he was only was a little boy who should have been cared by his parents, while he had to lived by himself and suffer enormous pain, such as hunger, thirst, beating and abuse. I was shocked by his sufferings, especially when I read “Please, Sir, I want some more.” He said to the master to ask for some more food, but he won a beat of the master .Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger and reckless with misery. Compared with him, are we much happier than him? But few of us realize that. We always think God treat us unfairly and complain that we have no much money to spend, no beautiful cloth to wear, no dignified quality, no attractive face and no sexy figure. Are we too greedy? So we should learn to be contended and learn to be happy.

Before reading the novel I thought the Christianity is

philanthropic because its father Jesus saved its people out of suffering by sacrificing himself and the religion calls on people to do good things but the people in the warehouse were really hypocritical, they gave little food to the kids while they let the children thank God to give them so scrumptious dinner. I almost cried when I read the boy sleeping next to Oliver could not fall sleep due to starvation and he was afraid he should some night eat the boy. They got so voracious and wild with hunger. The people in the warehouse really should be condemned to abuse children. So in our life we should stretch a hand to the poor and should not be so mean to the beggar otherwise we are the same as the people in the warehouse. If every of us show out our sympathetic side, our society can be more harmonious.

In spite of my pity for Oliver’s unlucky experience, but what impressed me most is that though little Oliver suffered much he still remained a pour heart and fought with the evil bravely. He desired living a normal and happy life. The author created a group of bad men, and they do everything bad to oppress Oliver, but little Oliver could resist their temptations and remain his purity and innocence. This

inspires me very much, and in our current society we face too many difficulties and temptations, can we be ourselves? In face of money and interest, many people give in it. They lost their minds and became degenerated. In face of difficulties, we lose heart and become discouraged. Can not we face it bravely like Oliver?

Still, though Dickens did his best to depict the terrible life of Oliver to show the dark life of London, to my relief, as was written in all the best stories, the goodness eventually conquered devil and there are a group of kind people such as Mrs. Maylie, Miss Rose, and they all protected Oliver from hurt and they helped Oliver live a happy life in the end. One of the plots that attracted me most is that after the theft, little Oliver was allowed to recover in the kind care of Mrs. Maylie and Rose and began a new life. He went for walking with them, or Rose read to him, and he worked hard at his lessons. He felt as if he had left behind forever the world of crime and hardship and poverty.

In the end of the novel, all the evil people were punished. Oliver got what he should get. Rose married Harry Maylie and they lived happily. All the kind people have a happy ending. So I believe righteousness can always beat evil and