Charles Dickens wrote “Oliver Twist” between 1873 and 1839. Oliver Twist is the second novel by Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist began as a sketch; later, chapter by chapter, it appeared in a magazine and became a series and finally the entire novel was published. Charles Dickens' childhood was terrible; he had to work in a factory for a few months. The novel exposes many of the Victorian attitudes that Dickens experienced while poor himself. Oliver Twist suffered for nine years on the baby farm, treated like an animal. Eventually Mr. Bumble takes Oliver to work in the workshop where he demands more food, which angers the master and Mr. Sowerberry offers to take Oliver, but Oliver is unhappy and flees to London on foot for seven days. Oliver is a poor orphan who was cruelly abused as a child. His situation reflects the 19th century society that Dickens was writing about because Dickens wrote "Oliver Twist" for two purposes: the first was to show everyone how the poor and orphans were treated according to the Poor Law of 1824, Dickens' second goal was to show how illegal and evil the world really was. Oliver Twist is the protagonist and he was a victim of the poor law and therefore had a terrible childhood. In Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens shows us many of the social injustices of this historical era. Another character from Oliver Twist is Nancy; she is caring but powerless because she is part of the criminal world, she is also a woman and therefore powerless against men. The poor and orphans had two options in life: work in a workshop as slaves or be a criminal and earn a living. Charles Dickens wrote Oliver Twist so that people could enjoy and understand the story by creating tension that builds...... middle of paper ......y using adjectives, verbs and powerful adverbs that encourage the reader to read for example “compressed”. ', 'struggle' and 'furiously'. He tried to draw the reader's attention to these two objectives. Dickens notably created tension by using foreshadowing that allows the reader to feel the mood and gives the feeling that something terrible is about to happen. The second way Dickens created tension was by using dramatic irony that Nancy did not know her fate. The title of chapter forty-seven (Fatal Consequences) creates tension because the reader knows that someone will die from these actions. The way chapter 47 analyzes the main character of each, the setting, the language and dialogue and finally the structures, and indicates how Dickens keeps the reader engaged through the use of these techniques. Overall, Dickens did a very good job of creating tension.