Oliver Twist.

OLIVER TWIST

information about his family: ............................................ .......................................................................................... two good points: ............................................................. his main defect: ...............................................................

Occupation (= activity): ............................... Temper (2 adjectives) : ..................... and  ........................

THE ARTFUL DODGER

LORD BROWNLOW

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She is twenty years old. Occupation: .......................................................... Two bad things about her: ........................................... Two positive aspects: ......................................................

NANCY

FAGIN

He’s a middle-aged Londoner. He’s the organiser of a gang of child criminals. ·        town: ....................................................... ·        Occupation now : ...................... .....................................................................................

Bill Sykes is a thief*. He is the negative character of the story. He’s brutal and everybody, even Fagin, is scared to death of him. He is mindless and violent. he killed ........................................ (name)

SYKES

 Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, the son of a clerk at the Navy Pay Office. His father, John Dickens, continually living beyond his means, was imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea in 1824. 

12-year-old Charles was removed from school and sent to work at a boot-blacking factory earning six shillings a week to help support the family.This dark experience cast a shadow over the clever, sensitive boy that became a defining experience in his life, he would later write that he wondered "how I could have been so easily cast away at such an age."

This childhood poverty and feelings of abandonment, although unknown to his readers until after his death, would be a heavy influence on Dickens' later views on social reform and the world he would create through his fiction.

Dickens would go on to write 15 major novels and countless short stories and articles before his death on June 9, 1870. He wished to be buried, without fanfare, in a small cemetery in Rochester, but the Nation would not allow it. He was laid to rest in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey.

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