Have you ever read the book Oliver Twist? It is about an orphan trying to survive.
Yes i love that book, its really sad though. "Oliver Twist" is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens of criminals and their sordid lives.
Yeah, I remember how he depicted criminals. Charles Dickens wrote some great novels. My favorite was "David Copperfield".
Really good one i read it too although, I really wish their could be a solution to the amount of orphan kids their is in the world.
I agree we need to find a better solution. Some countries don't have the money to make sure they are being taken care of.
While the exact definition of orphan varies, one legal definition is a child bereft through "death or disappearance etc, of their parents.
I always thought it was when the parents were dead. In many places the children become homeless. In the USA the government will place them in foster homes.
Orphan Train
The Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported orphaned and homeless children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes located largely in rural areas of the Midwest. The orphan trains operated between 1854 and 1929, relocating about 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, abused, or homeless children.
Three charitable institutions, Children's Village (founded 1851 by 24 philanthropists), the Children's Aid Society (established 1853 by Charles Loring Brace) and later, the New York Foundling Hospital, endeavored to
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837–39. The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets "The Artful Dodger", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin.
"Oliver Twist" is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens of criminals and their sordid