Oliver Twist ; or the Parish Boy's Progress Installment Nineteen

Chapters Included:

• Chapter 42: An old acquaintance of Oliver's, exhibiting decided marks of genius, becomes a public character in the metropolis
• Chapter 43: Wherein is shown how the Artful Dodger got into trouble

Notes from the Penguin Edition:
Fairclough, Peter, ed.  "Notes." Oliver Twist. By Charles Dickens.  Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1966.

Newgate Calendar: A publication, started in the late eighteenth century, containing accounts of the lives, trials and last days in Newgate, of criminals. Fagin's last night alive is spent in Newgate (Chapter 52), and Dickens was always fascinated by the prison, which appears again in Sketches by Boz.

Questions to Ponder concerning this Installment:

1.  In Chapter 42 we see the interactions of yet another cozy relationship--Noah and Charlotte.  How does their relationship parallel that of the Bumbles? of Nancy and Bill Sikes? How do these three relationships differ?

2.  What is the significance of Noah Claypole's alias--Mr. Morris Bolter????

2.  What is ironic about the scene in which the Artful Dodger is brought before the magistrate in Chapter 43?  Is his bravado meant to provide comic relief or something else?

Words it would Behoove you to Learn the Meaning of, in the Context in which they are Employed in the Text:

1. shambling (374)
2. homoeopathic (378)
3. redress (394)
4. impertinent (395)

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