OLIVER TWIST

By the end of this unit, students will be able to: analyze the characters of Oliver, Monks, Rose Maylie, and Mr. Brownlow and the techniques Dickens uses to create and depict them; discuss Dickens’s use of humor, pathos, and occasional bathos; analyze the importance of literary elements like irony and foreshadowing on the development of the plot; examine the impact of serialization on the narrative structure of the novel; and investigate Victorian social class structure and ideas about morality and justice; identify and explain Dickens’s social themes as expressed in this book. 166 pages. ©2016.