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During the summer of 1999, I have chosen to read the hold up, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Reading this book will better prepare me for my upcoming course of global studies because it deals with many of the regions and time periods we will be studying in class. Although this book was a classic that I thought I had known so much about, reading it and paying attention to the setting and surround of the young male childs life, I noticed many historical events and customs from his time period. The following is a report including the answers to the questions provided for my summer reading program.The story begins with a adult female giving birth to a baby without the proper instruments necessary and dies. The boy is brought up in a dirty home with little to eat and below unretentive conditions. No one knows of the boys identity. His government care translaters give him the name Oliver. Oliver grows up in a world with no sympathy for poor orphans. He goes to London to escape his mean guardians and to try to make a better life for himself. On his journey he is mixed up with thieves and is caught steal even though it was the people he was with. He gets sick and is taken care of by the people who he originally stole from and they grow to respect him. The thieves find out about him staying with the people and kidnap him. More stealing takes place and Oliver is trained to be a better thief. One time, during a robbery, Oliver is digging and left for dead by the thieves. The people at the house Oliver was to rob took him in and gave him a home. Olivers identity is found. It turns out that Oliver was supposed to receive an inheritance from his father and one of the people who got him caught knew this. After confessing, Oliver received his inheritance and lived a happy life from then on.After reading this book and studying the surroundings of the main characters as well as the other characters, I am lead to believe that this book takes place in two different sec tions of England in the late seventeen hundreds to the early eighteen hundreds. Most of the story takes place in warehouses and in broken down buildings or other hideouts. Other scenes take place in the home of wealthy people in London.