Oliver Twist\'s life has been a hard and desperate one.
At last, the boy finds.
Oliver is rescued by Sikes\'s intended victims, the young Rose Maylie, and her guardian, Mrs Maylie.
After Oliver gets involved with the nefarious Fagin and the sinister Bill Sikes, he is wounded during a burglary.
With his mother dying during his birth, and having no idea who his father was, Oliver has spent his first nine years struggling to survive in a world that has little pity for a poor orphan such as him.
Oliver Twist\'s life has been a hard and desperate one