Oliver Twist, Chapter 51 summary
Chapter 51 of 53 · 20 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 51, Oliver returns to his birthplace, where Monks confirms his parentage and inheritance scheme, and Rose discovers that she is his mother’s sister. Harry gives up his ambitious prospects and wins Rose’s agreement to marry him, while Oliver’s hope of helping Dick ends with news of his death.
What happens
- Oliver returns to his native town with his friends and eagerly plans to rescue Dick from poverty.
- At the hotel, Monks confirms that Oliver is his half-brother and explains his mother’s destruction of their father’s will.
- Two elderly witnesses expose Mrs. Bumble’s sale of Agnes’s stolen jewelry, and Mr. Brownlow declares both Bumbles unfit for trusted employment.
- Monks identifies Rose as Agnes’s younger sister, and Oliver embraces her as newly discovered family.
- Harry explains that he abandons his social ambitions for a country church and home, and Rose becomes his bride-to-be.
- Oliver weeps because Dick is dead.
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Harry removes the social obstacle to their marriage by changing his own position rather than asking Rose to ignore her concerns.
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