Oliver Twist starts at a workhouse. A little boy and a wealthier older man are walking through the streets on 1830s England and end at a workhouse. The little boy is 9 years old and is an orphan. His name is Oliver Twist. They take him to the work house to learn a useful trade. There are hundreds of children in this workhouse and they are all crammed in there together. One boy paces the floor at night because he is too hungry to sleep, they do not get a lot of food, and when Oliver asks for more it is a huge deal. Some even suggest that he should be hanged for asking. There is a chimney sweep who comes to the workhouse to get a boy to help him, but Oliver does not want to go with this man when he is taken to him and one man has pity on him and lets him go back to the workhouse. Oliver goes to a house to work. He has to sleep with coffins in the room and under a desk. By this time he is 10 years old. He does not get a lot of food here either. The man of the house seems to take pity on Oliver, but in the end he conforms to everyone else. When the boy that is in charge of him says bad things about his mother he starts to hit him and they lock Oliver in a closet. Bumble, the man who took him to the workhouse comes to flog him because the head of the house is not there, but he then Mr. Sowerberry gets home and does it himself, even though he doesn’t want to. Oliver decides to run away that night and ends up traveling, on foot, the 70 miles to London. A carriage roles by him, but no one in it cares to help him. He tries to get food from one house, but they turn him away. He keeps traveling and collapses outside of a ladies house. She does not have much but offers it to him and lets him sleep in her house. He keeps walking until he gets to London, when he gets there a boy sees him and offers him help. The boy then steals some bread and then takes him back to where he lives. Oliver meets Fagin, the man who has taught all of these boys to steal what they need and want. While Oliver is out with them for the first time and they steal from a man he is caught, even though he did not actually do anything. The man they were stealing from takes pity on Oliver and takes him back to his house and lets him live there. However, one day when Oliver goes out one of Fagin’s friends steals him back because they were afraid he was going to tell on them. No one helps Oliver and when he tries to run for it, they chase him down. They are not as nice to Oliver as they were at the beginning. Fagin threatens Oliver to do what he wants.
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Then Fagin’s friends take Oliver and force him to help them rob the man’s house that was nice to him, Mr. Brownlow. Mr. Brownlow wakes up as they enter the house and they try to shoot him, but hit Oliver instead and Mr. Brownlow becomes very concerned for his well-being. Fagin and his friend, Sikes, decide that they have to kill the boy, but Nancy, a girl in their group, hears this and does not like this. She goes to Mr. Brownlow’s house and tells him to meet her and when he does she warns him. But Fagin has sent someone to follow her and he reports back to Fagin and Sikes that she warned him. Sikes then goes to Nancy and beats her to death and he and the rest of their crew become wanted men. Sikes runs away with Oliver when he sees that this is his only chance, but ends up accidentally hanging himself. The police catch Fagin and he goes to jail to be hanged. Oliver goes to live with Mr. Brownlow, but feels sorry for Fagin and goes to visit him in jail.
This movie shows what some people resort to when they have no money and then do not try to work. They steal what they need from others. During most of this movie I wanted to yell someone help Oliver. Not too many people cared what happened to him. The workhouse was sad, that so many little children were orphaned and poor. Many people in this movie only cared about their own well-being and did not help others. But in the end Mr. Brownlow sees the need and helps Oliver.
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