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    Katerina Alexander Period 4 Knox 1/24/2011 Great Expectations Timed Write Essay In the passage provided from Chapter 37 of Great Expectations the characters of Pip‚ Miss Skiffins‚ Wemmick‚ and the Aged P use adequately calm and gentle actions to provide a safe and homely setting for Pip. This passage begins with a description of a post meal event where Pip feels “warm” and “greasy”. The Aged P‚ Wemmick‚ and Miss Skiffins moved around in a gentle manner as Miss Skiffins “washed up the tea-things

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    Character Foils A lover of life and nature‚ Clarisse‚ an affable neighbor who is seventeen‚ is the foil of Mildred — Montag’s cold‚ mindless‚ conforming wife. Delightfully human and aware of her surroundings‚ Clarisse disdains the fact-learning that passes for modern education. She enjoys nature. Powered by an insatiable curiosity‚ Clarisse‚ whom Beatty labels a "time bomb‚" serves as the catalyst that impels Montag toward a painful but necessary self-examination. With gentle pricks to his self-awareness

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    An Untraditional Fairy Tale Fairy tales have been told throughout the world for hundreds of years‚ and have come to be well-recognized and cherished by much of society. They follow a typical – if anything but overused – plotline‚ with cliché characters and a beautiful happy ending. However‚ some of the most popular modern-day classics differ greatly from their original endings. For example‚ in Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid‚ Ariel exchanges her mermaid tail and voice for human

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    Bailey Baith Great Expectations Adv. English 11 March 9‚ 2013 Secrets A secret always has reasoning behind how long it is kept hidden and when it is revealed. There’s always a perfect time and place for one to share one’s secret. Uniquely books have secrets embedded within to keep the reader on edge. If used wisely by the author‚ a secrets purpose can affect a novel’s story line‚ character development‚ and theme. Every secret throughout Dickens’ novel Great Expectations is effectively kept

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    Essay on Great Expectations Pip needs to tear himself away from societies’ beliefs such as the ever so important social class standings by changing the way he treats the different-classed people. Must he make those judgments based on his own understanding of their characters‚ or rely on the prejudice that society has set for him? He wants to become successful and wealthy and well respected in society but in doing so‚ must he give up his character amd loyalty to his loved ones? Pip attempts to achieve

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    Great Expectations‚ by Charles Dickens‚ is about a boy’s journey from being a little boy trying to stay alive from a convict that would kill him if Pip did not bring him what the convict asked for. Pip gotten an opportunity to go with his sister’s husband‚ Joe‚ to Miss. Havisham and her ‘daughter’‚ Estella‚ and Pip falls in love with Estella. Pip got money from a benefactor but he thinks it was from Miss. Havisham but‚ when he went to London with the money. But‚ he learns that his benefactor was

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    Charles Dickens‚ author of “Great Expectations” possesses an amazing ability to develop the characters in his stories using imagery‚ parallelism and first person point of view. In the excerpt from “Great Expectations”‚ the author develops the personality of a convict the narrator of the story has encountered. Through the use of the rhetorical devices‚ the author allows for the reader to fully examine the convict as he is meant to be perceived. It is evident‚ given the details‚ that the convict

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    Chapter 8 The important plot development in the early chapters of Great Expectations occurs at the beginning of Chapter 8 with the introduction of Miss Havisham and Estella. The themes of social class‚ ambition‚ and advancement move to the forefront of the novel as Pip explores his feelings for the "very pretty and very proud" young lady. His want for self-improvement compels him to idealize Estella. Her condescension and disdain spurns Pip’s desire for self-improvement as he longs to become

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    Great Expectations Essay- Charles Dickens- The well admired novelist Charles Dickens was born in 1812 to a clerk in the navy and wife Elizabeth. Charles was the oldest of eight children two of which died in childhood. The writer reflects his own upsetting family life onto the pages of his book. However he does exaggerate himself and what he went through‚ but under the name of Pip‚ this really adds to the atmosphere of the book. More great tributes to Great Expectations are the brilliant page turning

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    and explored. From start to finish the novel tells us of Mildred’s fears‚ changes our perception of her‚ and most importantly‚ describes who and what she represents. But the question is‚ who is this apparently cowardly‚ inconsistent zombie of a character. The society in Fahrenheit 451 is flooded with corrupt‚ brainwashed people that can’t seem to think for themselves. For example‚ in one of the first chapters of the book we meet Mildred‚ Montag’s wife. She first appears almost dead as a result

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