![]() After a fight with Noah, another of Sowerberry's apprentices, over Oliver's unwed mother (whom Noah insults), Oliver runs away to London, to make his fortune. Oliver works as a "mute" mourner for Sowerberry, and must sleep at night among the coffins. Oliver is eventually given over to a coffin-maker named Sowerberry. Bumble, that the workhouse attempts to foist Oliver off as an apprentice to some worker in the villager. ![]() The boy, lucky to survive, is raised until the age of nine in a "farm" for young orphaned children, and then is sent to the local workhouse again, where he labors for a time, until his innocent request for more food so angers the house's board and beadle, Mr. Oliver Twist begins in a workhouse in 1830s England, in an unnamed village, where a young woman, revealed to be Oliver's mother, gives birth to her son and promptly dies. ![]()
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