Comparison and Contrast Dickens' Oliver Twist and Pip Charles Dickens is unusual among writers in that so many of his heroes and heroines are children, or are described in ways that associate them with childhood. And because nearly all these children are predestined to belong to the congenial society, they can only be hurt, not corrupted, by the obstructing society. Oliver and Pip have both gone through a rough childhood. In the novel of Oliver Twist, ever since Oliver is born, he lives in the orphanage and lives with the discrimination from the adult. “Please Sir, I want some more.” (Chapter 2), orphans at the