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During the summer of 1999, I have chosen to prove the book, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Reading this book will weaken chance on in me for my upcoming course of global studies because it deals with many of the regions and time periods we will be studying in class. Although this book was a classic that I horizon I had known so much about, reading it and paying vigilance to the setting and surroundings of the young boys life, I find many historical events and customs from his time period. The following is a narrative including the answers to the questions provided for my summer reading program.The story begins with a woman giving have a bun in the oven to a baby without the proper instruments necessary and dies. The boy is brought up in a dirty home with little to eat and under light conditions. No one knows of the boys identity element. His government caretakers give him the ring Oliver. Oliver grows up in a world with no sympathy for short orphans. He goes to London to escape his mean guardians and to try to make a better life for himself. On his journey he is mixed up with thieves and is caught stealing even though it was the the great unwashed he was with. He gets throw up and is taken care of by the batch who he originally steal from and they grow to love him. The thieves find out about him staying with the people and mulct him. More stealing takes place and Oliver is trained to be a better thief. One time, during a robbery, Oliver is shot and left for dead by the thieves. The people at the house Oliver was to rob took him in and gave him a home. Olivers identity is found. It turns out that Oliver was supposed to receive an inheritance from his father and one of the people who got him caught knew this. After confessing, Oliver received his inheritance and lived a happy life from so on.After reading this book and studying the surroundings of the main characters as well as the other characters, I am lead to retrieve that this book takes place in two different sections of England in the recently seventeen hundreds to the early eighteen hundreds. Most of the story takes place in warehouses and in broken down buildings or other hideouts. Other scenes take place in the home of wealthy people in London.