Sikes accidentally hangs himself soon after. The May lies reunite Oliver with Mr. Brown low who forces Monks to explain himself. The reader and Oliver are then informed that Monk's is Oliver's half- brother and that Oliver is entitled to a large fortune. He receives his share of the money, Fagin is hang, and the May lies, Oliver and Mr.Brownlow move to the countryside where they spend the rest of their day's together. Charles Dickens are well versed in the poverty of London as he himself was a child worker after his father was sent to debtor's prison. His appreciation of the hardships endured by impoverished citizens stayed with him for the rest of his life and was evident in his journalistic writing and novels. Dickens began writing Oliver twist after the adoption of the Poor Law of 1834 which halted government payments to the able-bodied poor unless they entered workhouses. Thus a Oliver Twist became a vechicle for social criticism aimed directly at the problem of poverty in 19th century London. Oliver Twist was very popular when it was first published partially because of its Scandalous subject matter. It depicted crime and murder without holding back causing it in Victorian London to be classed as a Newgate novel. While critics often condemned such novels as immoral the public usually enjoyed them. Because the novel was published serially the anticipation of waiting for the next installment also likely contributed to its popularity.