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Thieves
Devoted cyclists
Spies for the police
Prostitutes
A juvenile, but having the air and manners of a man
A juvenile, but having the air and manners of a girl
A boy, but having the air and manners of a girl
A man, but having the air and manners of a juvenile
The Sowerberrys have fed him too much meat
He comes from a bad family, especially his mother
Too many violent video games
He's hungry and therefore not able to make rational decisions
Will not return to the house, but will instead rejoin the gang of thieves
Will forget to return them because he sees a shop full of tasty treats
Will return home quickly because London is super scary
Will read them all before returning them
They have one outstanding quality/attribute that defines them and they do not deviate from this (they're "flat")
Their names are very "on the nose," indicative of their character/personality
They tend to be fully identified with their professsions/work
They're all very nice to Oliver
It starts with Oliver as a young boy, not a baby
Agnes has a locket that seems significant. And a letter.
Agnes arriving at the workhouse is dramatized
We learn Oliver's mother's name, Agnes
"Newgate" novels about criminals
"Silver-fork" novels about aristocrats
"War" novels about WWII
"Gothic" novels about vampires
Children are fundamentally innocent; they are corrupted by society (i.e. adults), when their innocence should be respected and protected
Children are fundamentally inclined to evil (Original Sin and all that)
Children should be put to work as chimney sweeps
Children are just little adults
It was published serially
It features a child protagonist, very unusual for the era (perhaps unprecedented)
It focuses on the lives of the poor, which some readers of the time were not thrilled about
Dickens didn't really care if it sold well; he wrote it for his own satisfaction
Other women, presumably for being judgmental
Mr. Bumble
Men
Fate
Fagin tells Sikes not to be "too violent," but it's pretty clear that he doesn't mean it.
Colonel Mustard kills her with a lead pipe in the conservatory
Sikes isn't angry when he kills her; he goes about the job calmly.
Sikes doesn't murder her; his dog does.
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Oliver's character is altered considerably from the novel; he's "round," a rebellious little boy who stands up to injustice.
The adaptation cleans up and simplifies the novel's often-bewildering plot
Tom Hardy is a handsome and charismatic Bill Sikes, unlike the fairly uncomplicated thuggish criminal in the novel.
The adaptation completely eliminates Fagin as a character, so as to avoid the novel's anti-Semitic portrayal.
He didn't have anything to hold over him to make him become worse
Oliver fought Fagin off with karate kicks
Oliver's sole motivation in life was to find his father and he cared about nothing else
Fagin admits that he just didn't really try to turn Oliver bad because Oliver was so darned cute
It was a response to the "decadence" of the novel in the early 19th century
1820-37 was a "down" period for the novel, with only Sir Walter Scott being of lasting repute
"Genre" fiction, which is basically novels about novels, dominated the literary scope
All of the above
None of the above
His intense research
His drawing skills
His cocaine addiction
The lack of anti-Semitism
Parody
Jack Sheppard Controversy (guy "inspired" by novels to kill his boss)
CSI: Miami
It can't be killed in a way that matters
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Family relocated to London; Charles worked in a factory at age ten and met Fagin
Mary Hogarth's sudden death
He explored the sewers of Paris on a hot summer day
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was published
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