Human Contact

Fagin falsely believes that locking Oliver up in a house will teach him a lesson and cause him to be desperate for any human contact. This method may have worked a normal child in which they have been raised with lots of tender care and love, and to have time out to think about what they have done wrong may cause them to repent for their actions. But Oliver was not raised to be a normal child. He was not given any love or support for almost his entire life. The only time he has ever been given any human contact was when someone was beating him. These memories of human violence has made Oliver distrustful of most adults, thus not necessarily making him desperate for human contact but avoiding it at any means possible. Anyways, I believe that violence is not the best method in teaching people, but I do think giving them a time out is indeed an effective method for having them rethink of what they did wrong. However, I don't think that at the severity of Fagin's in which he locked Oliver up for four days in order to make him more loyal.