Author here uses journalist or even colloquial style of writing without many colourful words, methaphores, so he describes life of Oliver Twist as much realistic as possible. This story is narrated by omniscient narrator. When he was writing this novel he was inspired by the bad social conditions of poor people and also by his own childhood. He shows his ironic attitude toward the New Poor Law. His two important aims in his work are to attack the inhumane New Poor Law of 1834 and to correct the glamorous portrayal of criminals in the Newgate novel of the date. .
Charles Dickens in the first part describes the poor life of Oliver Twist. He was born as an orphan and he was sent to the workhouse. Here Dickens is very critical about this workhouse "where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws rolled about the floor all day, without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing, under parental superin tendence of an elderly female, who received the culprits at and for the consideration of sevenpence-halfpenny per small head per week". Dickens describes in very realistic details the lives of these orphans, poor people in this workhouse where they suffer from starvation, cold, illnesses, recent ill-usage. The parish authorities think that they give them a lot, much more than the orphans deserve. He criticizes also English laws (especially the New Poor Law). It can be seen when Oliver is sent to a workhouse and he asleeps after hard day "What a noble illustration of the tender laws of England! They let the paupers go to sleep.". Direct criticism against the New Poor Law is seen in "So they established the rule, that all poor people should have the alternative (for they would compel nobody, not they) of being starved by a gradual process with the house or by a quick one out of it.". In this part he is very critical and ironic. He criticizes very small meals of food.