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    Analyse how character and setting are created in Chapter 1 of Great ExpectationsGreat Expectations’ is a best selling novel‚ written during the reign of Queen Victoria‚ by the well known author Charles Dickens. This novel was serialised as each chapter would be published in a weekly magazine. Dickens would have to deliberately make each chapter interesting and addictive in order for people to buy the next publishing. Throughout chapter 1‚ Dickens portrays the two starting characters with a lot

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    Dickens ’s‚ Great Expectations. Even though he appears only a handful of times in the novel his character plays a significant role. As Pip ’s enemy‚ Trabb ’s Boy helps the reader see Pip ’s faults. Trabb ’s Boy ’s most important role is that of Pip ’s rescuer. Trabb ’s Boy has very few speaking parts‚ but an understanding of his personality is seen through his numerous actions. His personality is frank‚ vivacious‚ and mischievous. In the way Mr. Trabb speaks to Trabb ’s Boy in Chapter Nineteen‚ there

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    occasional comment of the author. However‚ Narayan’s popular novel The Guide is a notable sample of memory novel. Now to Dickens‚ Great Expectations‚ a novel in which Dickens remains behind the screen. Great Expectation did feature autobiographical elements much like David Copperfield but humour and following the artisan norms of life made the memory machine in Great Expectation more illustrative. In a letter in early October 1860‚ Dickens gave an account of his plan of the essential narrative mode

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    Suspense is what drives most horrors and is caused by what the readers fear most in their life. The story has many suspenseful details in it that eventually will lead to the end of the story. The story has a little twist to it all. The story is about a man named James and he is an artist who drew a criminal sketch of a man that is a murderer. James eventually finds a workshop with a stone carver named Charles and he has a gravestone with James’ name and date of birth and date of death and both men

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    Suspense In Rapunzel

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    and the prince fall in love and get married. The original story was so popular that Disney made it into the movie Tangled. The producers have added scenes like running from the royal guards and almost drowning in a dam to bring more action and suspense to the movie. One of the new scenes they added to the movie is when Flynn steals the lost princesses crown. When Flynn is running away from the guards he sees a tower‚ climbs it and meets Rapunzel who’s locked in a tower. Flynn scares Rapunzel

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    How does Fitzgerald tell the story in Chapter 3 of the “Great Gatsby”? In chapter 3 Fitzgerald uses structure to tell the story by his order of the chapter. Fitzgerald starts off with Nick providing social commentary about the developing scenes at one of Gatsby’s parties emphasising his contempt for the people who seemingly use Gatsby for his party but also emboldens Nick’s role as an outsider in the book. Nick then prides himself as ’one of the only guests who was invited’ by being invited Nick

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    expectations

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    Expectations According to the National Center for Education Statistics‚ a record of 21.8 million students are expected to attend American colleges and universities in the fall of 2013‚ constituting an increase of about 6.5 million since the fall of 2000. An average of 87.4% of those students are also expected to graduate within six years of their enrollment year. And of course‚ one can only assume that the students have their own expectations from college as well. Students expect to attain a

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    identity through relationships‚ connections to place and offers acceptance and understanding. This value inspires human nature’s desire to seek belonging; however it is also Human nature to create barriers which prevent it. Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations exemplifies these concepts‚ through figurative language and structural form‚ protagonist Pips overwhelming desire to become a Gentleman‚ but also how lack of understanding is a constant obstacle throughout his journey to ascertain this perceived

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    Great Gatsby Chapter 5

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    Write about the ways the story is told in Chapter 5. Chapter 5 of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ creates a contrasting tone to what has previously occurred in the novel. Fitzgerald generally creates a surreal atmosphere in order to control the manner in which many readers approach the events within the novel. Fitzgerald’s use of first person narrative enforces a judgemental perspective upon the reader‚ although Nick Carraway appears to set aside all opinions and therefore simply overlook

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    Expectations

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    ExpectationsExpectations”…what do you think of? “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens maybe? Whatever the case‚ all people have expectations. It could be something they expect of others‚ or something they expect of themselves. It is something you look forward to in the future. It is the motivation‚ the incentive‚ people need to keep looking forward to tomorrow—the prospect of something wonderful about to happen. An undergraduate might have expectations of a bright‚ successful future‚ a businessman

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