What is it that keeps a child innocent and pure? Is the way that they are raised or the way that their parents speak and discipline them? We often see children as the idea of innocence, because a child is thought of purity and something that hasn’t been tampered with. The Bible often refers us to Gods children or as lambs. A child needs to be innocent and pure for when corruption and evil comes into their lives it changes a young boy or a young girl. The world becomes a scary dark place that the child no longer wants to apart of. Charles Dickens illustrates this in his novel, he takes innocent children who haven’t seen the dark scary world yet, and twists all they know into a dark scary place that they didn’t know possibly existed. What is …show more content…
But Oliver doesn’t die like they hoped he would. This makes Oliver a sense of hope too. He symbolizes hope and how even when you are thrown out into the sea to be stranded, you will always find an island of safety and an island to call home. Oliver is the idea of coming from an awful setting and every time persevering and pushing through. Dickens gives his idea of a great person through Oliver. Oliver is what Dickens pictures the perfect person to look like. Someone who is not born into a great family or life but overcomes and doesn’t stop overcoming. Dickens doesn’t allow Oliver to give in because Dickens doesn’t want to give in. Dickens isn’t a quitter and he isn’t someone who takes life lightly; everything is serious and sad, there is no light and life shown unless it through a character persevering. A new symbolism Dickens brings into his story is the idea of good vs. evil within a character. He brings in Nancy as a girl who wants to do good and a character who wants to be a good person but the evil inside of her and the sadness and bitterness is coming out of her. The bitterness coming out of her is also from the hurt. She allows men to abuse her and she also allows the poverty in her to make an excuse of why she steals from other