Instead, we, the masses, who are asking for more, just like Oliver, will be perceived as rebellious, removed from the ...

When he is nine years old a decision is taken by the workhouse boys that Oliver should ask the master for a second bowl of gruel at mealtime…and Oliver finds himself hauled before the workhouse ...

Oliver Twist was one of his earliest novels ... Expelled from the workhouse for having had the temerity to ask for more gruel, Oliver is placed as an apprentice to an undertaker, but is mistreated ...