![]() Fagin was arrested (though the fate of the pickpockets is unknown), and Oliver wishes to visit him in jail. ![]() Some time later, Oliver is living comfortably with Mr. When trying to scale the building using a rope, Sikes, distracted by his dog, loses his footing and accidentally hangs himself. Bill Sikes takes Oliver onto the roof, knowing they won't shoot if the boy is with him. Eventually, Dodger, outraged at Sikes for killing the good-hearted Nancy, reveals their location to authorities. Bullseye escapes his master’s cruelty, and leads a group of police and locals to the group’s hideout. Fagin, Oliver, and the boys are hiding there too, after escaping their previous location before the police could find it. After unsuccessfully trying to kill the dog by drowning it, Sikes takes up residence with Toby Crackit. Sikes’s ever-present dog, Bullseye, is a dead giveaway to his identity. The next day, information about Oliver and Fagin appear in the newspaper, along with Nancy’s murder and Sikes is a suspect. Sikes is furious at Nancy’s betrayal, and brutally beats her to death in their apartment. The Artful Dodger, who had been sent by a suspicious Fagin to spy on Nancy, had heard everything and is bullied by Bill Sikes to give up the information. At the meeting, Nancy cautiously reveals that Oliver is staying with Fagin, and that the authorities will easily find them. She drugs Bill, and goes to Brownlow’s house where she arranges to have him meet her on London Bridge at midnight so she can provide information about Oliver. Nancy has a maternal love for Oliver and does not want to see him hurt, but she is controlled by the abusive Sikes. Fagin, despite treating Oliver kindly, remains crime-focused and plots with Sikes to kill Oliver when Sikes has recovered. Sikes survives his near-drowning, but is confined to bed with a heavy fever. As the three escape, Bill decides to murder Oliver to ensure his silence, but falls into a nearby river before he can take action. They are discovered and Oliver is wounded in a brief shootout between Brownlow and Sikes. Sikes and his accomplice, Toby Crackit, force Oliver to aid them in robbing Brownlow’s house. Oliver is put under supervision until Bill Sikes discovers the boy’s connection to the rich Mr. Fagin and Sikes worried that Oliver would “peach,” and tell the authorities about their criminal activity. However, while out running an errand for Brownlow, Oliver is forcibly returned to the pickpocket gang by Fagin’s associate, the evil Bill Sikes, and the young prostitute Nancy (who is in a complex and abusive relationship with Sikes). Brownlow informally adopts Oliver, giving him new clothes and the promise of a good education. Brownlow) takes pity on Oliver, who had collapsed from a fever in the courtroom. ![]() However he is proven innocent by an eyewitness, and the owner of the handkerchief (the wealthy Mr. On his first outing with the pickpockets, two of the boys steal a man’s handkerchief and Oliver is framed. Soon, Oliver is being groomed to join their gang. He meets Jack Dawkins, or “The Artful Dodger,” a boy-thief who takes Oliver to his home and hideout at Saffron Hill that he shares with many other young pickpockets and their eccentric elderly leader, Fagin. After a week of travel, he arrives at the city, barefoot and penniless. After he collapses from exhaustion, a kindly old woman gives him food and lodgings for the night. With little food, Oliver determines to walk 70 miles to London. Knowing his life with the Sowerberrys will only get worse, Oliver escapes on foot. After more poor treatment, Oliver snaps and attacks Noah for having insulted his mother. Sowerberry, a coffin-maker, whose wife and senior apprentice, Noah Claypole (Handsome Shrek's Son) take an instant dislike to the newcomer. After nearly being sold as an apprentice to a cruel chimney sweeper who always abuses donkeys, Oliver is sent to Mr. This results in Oliver being chastised, and the workhouse officials, who are wealthy, well-fed, hypocritical men, decide to get rid of him. Facing starvation, the boys select Oliver (through a lottery) to ask for more food at the next meal, which he tentatively does. He and the other resident children are treated poorly and given very little food. Young orphan Oliver Twist is forcibly brought to a workhouse in an unidentified town In England on his ninth birthday.
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