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How Does Dodger Affect Oliver's Life

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Similar in the novel Oliver Twist, Oliver had characters that impacted his life greatly, which also helped to develop his character further. Each of these characters being Dodger, Fagin and Mr. Brownlow. The first character being Dodger. Dodger was very important to Oliver’s life because he was actually Oliver’s first friend ever, but later Oliver quickly realizes that Dodger was not the best person to be friends with. Dodger influence Oliver’s life badly by showing Oliver how to pickpocket, and other crimes. Oliver first realizes that Dodger was a bad influence on his life when Dodger and him are out for a walk. Dodger finds a target on the other side of the street and crossed over, Oliver follows cluelessly. Then Dodger quickly pickpockets an …show more content…

Brownlow called after him “Thief! Thief! Stop that Thief!” (Dickens 66). This goes to show what kind of person Dodger is. The person that Dodger stole from was Mr. Brownlow, Mr. Brownlow realized that Oliver did not steal from him, quickly tried to undo his mistake by telling everyone that he mistaken him for a thief, when Oliver was brought to court, it took a lot persuading for the judge to not find Oliver guilty of this crime “[because at that time] children had little status or importance [on the world],”(Trensky 5) . After this happens to makeup to him, Mr.Brownlow gives him a place to stay. This influence Oliver to do his best and stay out of trouble with the law. These two characters influence Oliver’s life by doing the complete opposite of each other, Dodger did not care where Oliver ended up as long as he was safe, whereas Mr.Brownlow gave Oliver a place to stay, and tried to raise him like his own. Mr. Brownlow was similar to Matthew in Anne of Green Gables because they both wanted give them a place to stay in their time of need. The people that one surrounds themselves with impacts everything that person does, because of how society portrays

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