Oliver Twist

Tzur Rochvarger

"Oliver Twist"

Charles Dickens

Fiction, Drama

"Oliver Twist"  is a famous fictional story loved by many readers, was written by Charles Dickens. It is set in 1834, England, its about a boy named Oliver Twist (of course) orphaned since birth, who lived with the cruelest people you could find. He lived 9 years with a horrible woman and then gets taken to an orphanage but gets even more mistreated and later is sold, and so it starts him on his journey to London and his whole story. He has never had a family and so sometimes gets tangled with the wrong crowd. The book follows Oliver's story through out his life and the people around him. 

The book has a very distinct and brain twisting style, when a good part comes in it will abruptly stop and switch to another, causing you to read on because you want to continue the scene that was just there in front of you. Consequently this caused me to get frustrated but it wasn't just that, but the language was different the same yet old. It was victorian english in the times on Dickens, but to help me get the story I watched one of the many film adaptations of the book which made it much easier, but yet again like most  books adapted into movies, the book was better.

Personally though I didn’t enjoy the book as much ad I would’ve thought. I prefer adventurous books with magic and battles and sometimes a bit of romance, though not the mushy type. So I recommend this book to people who like deep literature, to those who like drama and conflicts that relate to family. I recommend to read this book with a quiet space, when you are alone. Dont read it with siblings in the room or when you’re out in the city. Tried it and I regretted it. Like all stories by  Dickens, except for one- The mystery of Edwin Drood- there is an ending, I wont spoil it but you probably know it.