Sowerberry, Noah is filled with jealously and insults Oliver’s birth mother by calling her names. Sowerberry’s wife, however, underfeeds Oliver and treats him poorly, as does Noah Claypole, another of the undertaker’s apprentices, and Charlotte, the Sowerberrys’ maid. Sowerberry, takes Oliver from the parish as an apprentice and treats him better than anyone has before. After ordering the boy into immediate confinement, they offer a reward of five pounds to anyone who will take Oliver off the parish’s hands.Īn abusive chimney sweep offers to apprentice Oliver, but when Oliver begs the magistrate in charge of making the decision not to send him with the man, the magistrate denies the chimney sweep’s request. The master and the board, a group of men who oversee the workhouse, are aghast at Oliver’s request. The job falls to Oliver, who nervously requests more food after the next meal. The boys in the workhouse have difficult lives, and after suffering slow starvation for months, they become desperate and draw lots to see who will ask the master for more food. Bumble, the parish beadle (a lay official of the church who carries out various administrative duties), takes him from the baby farm to live in the workhouse and work picking oakum. Mann gives minimal care to the boys - underfeeding and mistreating them. Oliver’s mother dies moments after his birth, and since no one knew her name or the identity of Oliver’s father, the baby is considered an orphan and sent to a baby farm.Īt the baby farm, Ms.
Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse (a place where the poor and homeless are provided with work and shelter) in a small town in England.
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