During the summer of 1999, I have chosen to read the book, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Reading this book will better prepare me for my upcoming course of global studies because it deals with many of the regions and time periods we will be studying in class. Although this book was a classic that I thought I had known so much about, reading it and paying attention to the setting and surroundings of the young …showed first 75 words of 817 total…

…showed last 75 words of 817 total…a life that is much harder than she could have ever imagined. This decision forced Oliver to live with people who hated him and treated him badly for most of his younger years but in the end his identity was found and his life changed drastically for the better. This was the right thing to do for the woman. It is better to have a hard life than to not have a life at all.