This document is a paper submitted by Disha Gediya Vijaybhai, a student in Sem 2, with paper number 6 on the subject of "Child labour in Oliver Twist". It discusses Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, in which the orphan boy Oliver is born in a workhouse and apprenticed to an undertaker. It summarizes the plot and then analyzes the causes of child labour seen in the novel, like poverty, lack of education, and the use of children by criminals. It also discusses how films and the novel shed light on the gloomy lives of children in labor. The negative effects of child labor on development and education are outlined, along with some suggestions for how to stop the practice,

1. Name :Gediya Disha Vijaybhai
Class:sem 2
Paper no:6
Subject:Child labour in Oliver Twist
Roll no :9
Email:dishagediya11@gmail.com
Submitted to : Department of English Maharaja
krishna kumar sinhji Bhavnagar university.

2. About the author
Charles John Huffam
Dickens(1812-1870)was
an english writer and
social critic.
He left school to work
in a factory when his
father was
incarcerated in
debtors prison.

3. Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist written
by Charles Dickens.
In this novel the
orphan boy Oliver
Twist was born in
workhouse and sold
into apprenticeship
with an undertaker.

4. About the novel
Twist was an orphan boy and work
in workhouse.
He travels to London where he
meets The Artful Dodger.
Forced into a life of poverty and
misfortune in workhouse.
Become victim of Jewish criminal.
An apprentice at Mr. Sowerberry an
undertaken.

5. Causes of child labour
• In that time industrial revolutionary in Europe,inspired
and forced young people and children to work in factory
for their livelihood.
• Children benefited the criminal.
• Disease and lack of food.
• Upper and lower class in society.
• Poverty
• Limited education
• Parents illiteracy

6. Movie and child labour
• Film industry plays an important role.
• Movie Oliver Twist shows gloomy life of small
orphan.
• Same as Indian movie shows child labour.
• Child slavery and other bad habit.
• Poverty crippled the growth of children
physically and mentally.

7. India and child labour
•In India many
problems related
with child labour.
•Government tries to
implement the laws.
•Awareness
•Our slum areas

8. Negative effects
• Ruined mental and physical development
• Have no chance to improvement in life
• Not get education
• The economy and growth of country Will be in
danger
• Bad habit like chewing tobacco,drugs and also
doing crime

9. How to stop it
• Provide
Employment
• To make them
able for getting
education
• Makes rule on it
and implies it
• Rise your voice

10. Conclusion
•In Oliver Twist shows the ages reflection
that what was the situation of that era and
how people face that.
•Also Dickens reflected his life and his
struggle in this novel with the effect of
child labour.

11. Thank you