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    This document provides a critical analysis of the short story "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens from a sociological perspective. It discusses how Dickens portrayed the social issues of his time, such as urbanization, poverty, and the economic exploitation of children, through the main character Oliver Twist. The analysis focuses on how Oliver faced cruel treatment as an orphaned and poor child, from oppression in his village to exploitation in the city. It explains that Dickens drew from his own experiences with poverty and working in a factory as a child to depict the starving and abused children in the workhouse through his writing. The moral of the story is that one should never give up and remain tough in order to achieve happiness.

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    This document provides a critical analysis of the short story "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens from a sociological perspective. It discusses how Dickens portrayed the social issues of his time, such as urbanization, poverty, and the economic exploitation of children, through the main character Oliver Twist. The analysis focuses on how Oliver faced cruel treatment as an orphaned and poor child, from oppression in his village to exploitation in the city. It explains that Dickens drew from his own experiences with poverty and working in a factory as a child to depict the starving and abused children in the workhouse through his writing. The moral of the story is that one should never give up and remain tough in order to achieve happiness.

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    UTS Fiction Oliver Twist - 7C - Group 1

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    This document provides a critical analysis of the short story "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens from a sociological perspective. It discusses how Dickens portrayed the social issues of his time, such as urbanization, poverty, and the economic exploitation of children, through the main character Oliver Twist. The analysis focuses on how Oliver faced cruel treatment as an orphaned and poor child, from oppression in his village to exploitation in the city. It explains that Dickens drew from his own experiences with poverty and working in a factory as a child to depict the starving and abused children in the workhouse through his writing. The moral of the story is that one should never give up and remain tough in order to achieve happiness.

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    Subject: FICTION (7C)

    Critical Analysis of Short Story entitled “Oliver Twist”

    As readers, we want to analyze short story entitled “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens. It is
    popular story published in 1838. It wasn’t only written in story, but also adapted to movie and
    novel. We analyze how the author delivered social situation happened to himself in England
    Revolution Industry era into the main character Oliver Twist through sociological approach.

    The theory of sociological approach included social stratification, social class, social mobility,
    culture, religion, secularization, law, and deviance. Based on the story we focused on the crime
    issue, especially economic exploitation of children.

    Charles Dickens adapted crime issue such children exploitation as dominant issue and poor
    people’s life in the suburb area, where the villagers lost their job as farmer, it led them moved to
    the city (urbanization). But, at the city, they got low salary and still poor. It caused crime, one of
    them is children exploitation as happened with the main character of the story, Oliver Twist. He
    was an orphan and poor child who faced the cruel life at that time. Begin with oppression
    happened in the village until children exploitation in the city.

    The main reason that become the background of Oliver Twist story is based on Charles
    Dickens’s own story. At that time, he lived in the poverty with his family. So, they had to work
    in the factory because of financial problem they had. Then, the depiction of the starving and
    abuse children in the workhouse was the manifestation of Dickens’s hatred toward same thing he
    felt at the past.

    In conclusion, this short story tells about the struggle children who lived in an orphan named
    Oliver Twist. The characters is explained clearly so that the delivery of the contents of the story
    can be conveyed well. The illustration contained in this story also adequately describe what was
    happening at that time. The moral value of this short story is “be a tough person and never give
    up, so you can achieve your happiness”.

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