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oliver twist（1838）is charles dickenssecondnovel.the book was originally published inbentleys miscellany as a serial，in monthly installments that began appearing in themonth of february 1837 and continued throughapril 1839，originally intended to form part ofdickensserial the mudfog papers.george cruik shank provided one steel etching per month to is ustrate each installment.oliver twist is the first novel in the english language to center throughout on a child protagonist and is also notable for dickensunromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives.the books subtitle，the parishboys progress，alludes to bunyans thehlgrimsprogress andalsoto apairofpopular18th-century caricature series by william hogarth，a rakes progress and a harlots progress.among other public buildings in a certain town，which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning.and to which 1will assign no fictitious name，there is one anciently common to mosttowns，great or small：to wit，a workhouse；and in this workhouse wasborn；on a day and date which i need not trouble myself to repeat，inasmuch as it can be 0f no possible consequence to the reader,inthis stage of the business at a11 events；the item of mortality whosename is prefixed to the head of this chapten for a 10ng time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow andtrouble，by the parish surgeon，it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bearany name at all；in which case it is somewhatmore than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared；or,if they had，that being comprised within a couple of pages，they wouldhave possessed the inestimable merit of beingthe most concise and faithful specimen of biograph$extant in the literature of any age or country. 作者简介：charles dickens（1812-1870），themost popular english novelist ofthe victorian era，was a vigoroussocial campaigner，both in hisown personal endeavours as wellas through the recurrent themesof his literary enterprise.the popularity of dickenssnovels and short stories hasmeant that they have never gone out of print.many of dickenssnovels first appeared inperiodicals and magazines inserialized form-a popular formatfor fiction at the time-and.unlike many other authors whocompleted entire novels beforeserial production commenced，dickens 0ften composed hisworks in parts，in the order inwhichtheyweremeanttoappear.such a practice lent his stories aparticular rhythm，punctuated byone minor“cliffhanger”afteranother，to keep the publiclooking forward to the nextjnstallment.To Regain the Nature of Goodness - Review of Oliver Twist Oliver Twist, one of the most famous works of Charles Dickens, is a novel reflecting the tragic fact of the life in Britain in 18th century. The author who himself was born in a poor family wrote this novel in his twenties with a view to reveal the ugly masks of those cruel criminals and to expose the horror and violence hidden underneath the narrow and dirty streets in London. The hero of this novel was Oliver Twist, an orphan, who was thrown into a world full of poverty and crime. He suffered enormous pain, such as hunger, thirst, beating and abuse. While reading the tragic experiences of the little Oliver, I was shocked by his sufferings. I felt for the poor boy, but at the same time I detested the evil Fagin and the brutal Bill. To my relief, as was written in all the best stories, the goodness eventually conquered devil and Oliver lived 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 walks 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. How can such a little boy who had already suffered oppressive affliction remain pure in body and mind? The reason is the nature of goodness. I think it is the most important information implied in the novel by Dickens-he believed that goodness could conquer every difficulty. Although I dont think goodness is omnipotent, yet I do believe that those who are kind-hearted live more happily than those who are evil-minded. For me, the nature of goodness is one of the most necessary character for a person. Goodness is to humans what water is to fish. He who is without goodness is an utterly worthless person. On the contrary, as the famous saying goes, The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose, he who is with goodness undoubtedly is a happy and useful person. People receiving his help are grateful to him and he also gets gratified from what he has done, and thus he can do good to both the people he has helped and himself. To my disappointment, nowadays some people seem to doubt the existence of the goodness in humanity. They look down on peoples honesty and kindness, thinking it foolish of people to be warm-hearted. As a result, they show no sympathy to those who are in trouble and seldom offer to help others. On the other hand, they attach importance to money and benefit. In their opinion, money is the only real object while emotions and morality are nihility. If they cannot get profit from showing their kindness, they draw back when others are faced with trouble and even hit a man when he is down. They are one of the sorts that I really detest. Francis Bacon said in his essay, Goodness, of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is the greatest, being the character of the Deity, and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin. That is to say a person without goodness is destined to lose everything. Therefore, I, a kind person, want to tell those vermin-to-be to learn from the kind Oliver and regain the nature of goodness.One of Dickens most enduringly popular stories is Oliver Twist, an early work published 1837-8. Like many of his later novels, its central theme is the hardship faced by the dispossessed and those of the outside of tolite society. Oliver himself is born in a workhouse and treated cruelly there as was the norm at the time for pauper children, in particular by Bumble, a parish council official or eadle The story follows Oliver as he escapes the workhouse and runs away to London. Here he receives an education in villainy from the criminal gang of Fagin that includes the brutal thief Bill Sikes, the famous artful Dodger and Nancy, Bill whore. Oliver is rescued by the intervention of a benefactor - Mr Brownlow - but the mysterious Monks gets the gang to kidnap the boy again. Nancy intervenes but is murdered viciously by Sikes after she has showed some redeeming qualities and has discovered Monk sinister intention. The story closes happily and with justice for Bumble and the cruel Monks who has hidden the truth of Oliver parentage out of malice. Accusations were made that the book glamorised crime (like the ewgate Group of the period) but Dickens wisely disassociated himself from criminal romances. His achievement was in fact in presenting the underworld and problems of poverty to the well-off in a way rarely attempted previously.Learn to love and care Here I am sitting on a couch alone thinking about what I have just finished reading with tears of sadness filling my eyes and fire of indignation filling my heart which revived my exhausted soul that has already been covered by the cruelty and the selfishness of the secular world for a long time. It is truly what I felt after reading Oliver Twist written by the prominent British author Charles Dickens. the resonance between me and the book makes me feel not only the kindness and the wickedness of all the characters in the novel but what this aloof society lacks and what I lack deep inside. These supreme resources Im talking about right now are somewhat different from minerals oil that we usually mention. Theyre abstract like feelings and some kinds of spiritual stimulation that all of us desire anxiously from one another love and care. Those charitable figures whom Dickens created in the novel are really what we need in life. They showed love and care to others just as the gentle rain from the sky fell upon the earth which was carved into my heart deeply. Mr. Brownlow is one such person. the other day he had one of his elaborate watches stolen by two skilled teenage thieves Artful Dodger and Charley Bates and thought naturally it was Oliver who was an orphan and forced to live with a gang of thieves that had done it because