Dickens again uses diction relating to heaven to describe Oliver’s recovery; the reader is informed that Oliver is “at deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; that calm and peaceful rest which it is pain to wake from” (Dickens 126). Hombach references this incident as another piece of evidence that confirms the heavenly portrayal of Oliver by Dickens and the theory that Oliver can be described as an angel that is meant to depict a way by which good can triumph over evil. Mr. Brownlow sends Oliver to pay the book stall owner, however tragedy strikes again and his previous malignant benefactors take hold of him once again, now with the aid of Nancy. Fagin and Bill Sikes decide to punish Oliver for abandoning Charley Bates and his …show more content…
Oliver’s language is similar to that of the Queen’s english and it contrasts the colloquial language of the criminals. After being in their presence for a prolonged period, he remains unaffected by this malignant diction. Dickens mentions that Fagin attempts to “prepare his [Oliver’s] mind, by solitude and gloom, to prefer any society to the companionship of his own sad thoughts in such a dreary place, he was now slowly instilling into his soul the poison which he hoped would blacken it, and change its hue for ever;” this marks the elaborate scheme employed by Fagin to trap Oliver in his web and turn the “young lamb into a piece of meat” (Dickens 212 & 312). Soon Oliver’s looming task came before him, he accompanied Sikes on a robbery of a middle class household in a different locale of London, which support the findings of Warnick in his work regarding poverty in Victorian England. Oliver remarks “for God’s sake let me go” and ‘let me run away and die in the fields,” as he completely realizes that murder and robbery are the main tasks of this expedition; Oliver’s innocence seems to be broken, however his good will is present