How can secondary English teachers help students gain insight from the moral development of fictional characters? This book offers guidance for teachers looking to include character education within their lessons. It demonstrates how teachers can provide an encounter with literature that enables students to be more responsive to ethical themes and questions. Instead of focusing on the formal analysis of plot, symbol, mood and irony, the author shows how to draw instructive insights from fictional life narratives so that pupils can be prompted to consider and evaluate an individual's...