Oliver twist is a fascinating story of a boy who was born orphan in a workhouse of 19th century England. His mother dies after giving birth to him and he spends nine years of his life in a badly managed orphanage before being tendered to his undertaker Mr. Sowerberry who could teach him some trade for a living. Oliver though has never seen his mother, yet a disparaging comment about her b), his fellow apprentice boy infuriates him to such an extent that he attacks him and is punished in return. Desperate, he runs away and on reaching London falls in the hands of Fagin, a career criminal who along with his accomplices teaches him to pick pockets and burglary. Oliver's destiny takes him through a maze of events of crime, chasing and tracing. Towards the end, he lands up in hands of Mr. Brownlow, from whom he was separated by his conspirators, and is reunited. Mr. Brownlow helps to trace Oliver's family connections and finally adopts him and they retire to a blissful country life