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Oliver Twist: Summary

Statistics

  Counts

  Total Pages: 6
  Total Words: 1499
  Total Characters: 7809
  Number of Sentences: 128


  Averages

  Words per Sentences: 11.71
  Characters per Words: 5.21


  Readability

  Flesch Reading Ease: 61.59
  Fog Scale Level: 10.26
  Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 7.58  

Oliver Twist: Summary


I     Content - Characterizations

Oliver Twist - A loving, innocent orphan child; the son of Edwin Leeford and
Agnes Fleming. He is generally quiet and shy rather than aggressive.  Oliver's
affectionate nature, along with his weakness and innocence, earn him the pity
and love of the good people he meets.  Dicken's choice of Oliver's name is very
revealing, because the boy's story is full of "twists" and turns.  Dickens uses
his skills at creating character to make Oliver particularly appealing.

Mr. Bumble - The parish beadle; a rat man and a choleric with a great idea of
his oratorical powers and his importance.  He has a decided propensity for
bullying. He derived no inconsiderable pressure from the exercise of petty
cruelty and consequently was a coward.  Halfway through the book, Bumble changes.
When he marries Mrs. Corney, he loses authority.  She makes all the decisions.

The Artful Dodger - A talented pickpocket, recruiter, cheat and wit.  Jack
Dawkins, known as the artful dodger, is a charming rogue.  Fagin's most esteemed
pupil.  A dirty snub-nosed, flat-browed, common-faced boy (short for his age).
Dickens makes Dodger look more appealing by describing his outrageous clothes
and uninhibited manners.

Fagin - A master criminal, whose specialty is fenang (selling stolen property).
He employs a gang of thieves and is always looking for new recruits.  He is a
man of considerable intelligence, though corrupted by his self-interest.  His
conscience bothers him after he is condemned to hang.  He does have a wry sense
of humor and an uncanny ability to understand people.  He's a very old
shrivelled Jew, whose villainous looking repulsive face was obscured by a
quantity of matted red hair.

Mr. Brownlow - A generous man, concerned for other people.  A very respectable
looking person with a heart large enough for any six ordinary old gentleman of
humane disposition.

Bill Sikes - A bully, a robber and a murde...

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