شرکت در آزمون آنلاین زبان انگلیسی 1 - زبان انگلیسی 1 | آزمون شماره 14245

When I first entered the manager’s room, I thought he ………, but then I realized he was on the phone.

The lion which was killed in the ......................... was a valuable Iranian lion.

Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy’s Progress (1838) is Charles Dickens’s second novel. It was first published as a book by Richard Bentley in 1838. It tells the story of an orphan boy and his adventures in London’s poor areas. Oliver is taken by force by some thieves, and is put to work among them until freed by a gentleman who has taken an interest in him. Characters include Fagin, Nancy, Bill Sykes, and the Artful Dodger. The book is one of the earliest examples of the social novel. It draws the reader’s attention to the problem of working children.

The idea for the novel may have come from the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose story of hardships as a child worker in a cotton factory was widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens’s own early youth as a child worker also helped the story to grow. The book influenced American writer Horatio Alger, Jr. and his stories of poor boys living on the streets of nineteenth-century New York City.

Why is Oliver Twist considered as an early example of the social novel?

Don’t worry about me, I can … myself. I do not need anyone else to protect me.