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During the summer of 1999, I have chosen to read the book, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Reading this book will correct prepare me for my upcoming course of global studies because it deals with many an(prenominal) of the regions and time periods we will be studying in class. Although this book was a classic that I image I had known so much about, reading it and paying attention to the setting and surroundings of the young boys 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 woman giving birth to a bungle without the proper instruments necessary and dies. The boy is brought up in a dirty home with little to eat and under poor conditions. No one knows of the boys identity. His government caretakers give him the name Oliver. Oliver grows up in a world with no sympathy for poor orphans. He goes to London to escape his conceive guardians and to try to make a better life for himself. On his journey he is mixed up with thieves and is caught stealing even though it was the large number he was with. He gets sick and is taken care of by the stack who he originally stole from and they grow to love 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 shot 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. later on 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 sect ions of England in the late seventeen hundreds to the early 18 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 sloshed people in London.