Oliver Twist | Book Review

Although this book was quite tough to get through but I loved it. Loved the process of reading this book throughout. I knew not much about the book when I started reading this. Good for me. Its the best to read a book blind slated and not to be primed with the plot, the characters, their motives and their eventual fate.

The writing style was unfamiliar to me, and really had problems understanding what Dickens wanted to say. But once I got used to it, I actually loved the book even more, because of the way it was written(it was only one of the reasons I liked it). He used sentences that ran over literally whole paragraphs, and shown importance of commas, appropriately using them and without any restrictions. Of course there was elegance in the words, since it was written in Victorian Period. The words were stuffy, but not used deliberately, they had meaningful purpose and served to enhance the overall sense of the settings, environment and character’s world.

Enough of writing style. I cant judge that because I feel myself incompetent there and just shooting arrows in the dark. I loved the book because of characters involved and how they interacted with each other. Not always in a pleasant way. I loved Oliver and sympathized with him. I loved Nancy, Mr Brownlow, Mrs Maylie, Rose, Mr Grimwig and all characters in general. The not so good characters like, Fagin and Sikes also had their presense and made look the good look more good.

And story was a good one, it gets more enjoyable in the end. Although some complaint about Dicken’s happy endings but I am fine with it. I rather would be in an illusion that everything will be alright at the end afterall. Not always but I really wanted it to turn out a good end for Oliver.

There were obvious references from Dickens to the struggles and unlawful undertakings of orphan children in London, in victorian period. And he felt really deep about it, as you can tell from his other works as well.