Week 1

This week I read Oliver Twist. Basically, this book is about a orphan who is living in 19th century Britain. His name is Oliver Twist, he is having miserable life in orphanage because the supervisor in the Orphanage only cares about profits for themselves. From Chapter 1 to chaper 4 there are not much things that are going on, this part of the book is just basically setting up the setting for the whole story, in chapter 1 Oilver is born and her mom is dead right away and someone takes Oliver's mom's ring in the process. In chapter 2, Oliver moves to the branch workhouse and have his ninth birthday over there, as Oilver becomes 9 he is no longer able to stay in workhouse, therefore he has to look for a job now. In chapter 3 one day, chimney sweep came to orphanage and was looking of a worker, however, Oliver does not become a chimney sweep because there were reports of too many people being dead. In chapter 4, there is a undertaker that is willing to take Oilver to work. Mr. Sowerberry, his employer takes him to his house and give him meat and after Oilver is done eating he goes to bed.
Although I am not a historian or I never lived in 19th century Britain. This book demonstrates that 19th century was a place where it was only set up for the rich people and money was the only thing that people cared about. If we had society like it appears on the book in modern times, it would be considered as inhumane because adults in this book is making the children do the work which is strictly prohitbitied now days. I kind of wondered how can those people be so brutal to those helpless childrens because they never even had chances to see their parents, how could those supervisors and employers could be so blindfolded by the pursuit of wealth? They were starving their children that thet were supposed to be protected and fed.I think throughout the courses of this story, they will have more aspects of demonstrating the dark side of the industiralization in the 19th century