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    Summer Assignment • Inner conflict is when a character has mixed feeling within him self. Pip has an inner conflict in the beginning of the book. When he runs into the run away convict‚ the convict told him to get a file and wittles Pip agrees to do it out of fear. When he gets back to his house he is about to take it. He then thinks of what he is actually doing. He realizes that he is stealing from his favorite person in the world‚ Joe. He is then conflicted of what to do. On one hand he is scared

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    they were poor and treated as peasant-like and a hinderance. Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens about a boy named Phillip Pirrip overcoming social status. This shows that no one’s class or social standing is set from birth. Charles Dicken’s novel uses motifs‚ themes‚ and imagery to make this point clear to its readers. One of the devices Dickens uses to explain status further are motifs. At the beginning of the novel‚ Pip is forced to go to a wealthy old woman named Miss Havisham’s

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    The Hands Society Motif Essay Throughout time society as a whole has greatly changed and developed to what it is now. One major part of the society is the social class structure. In Charles Dickens’ novel‚ Great Expectations‚ Dickens expresses his beliefs on that structure in many ways. Since Dickens wrote the novel during the Victorian Era it reflects and evaluates the beliefs and values of the time. For the most part ones place in the social order was based on wealth and the reputation

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    upon their material wealth. In the novel Great Expectations‚ by Charles Dickens‚ three characters show qualities of a true gentleman. Pip‚ Joe‚ and Provis have true gentlemen-like characteristics‚ which are shown through the way they live and present themselves. Pip’s actions towards others are those of an authentic gentleman. For example‚ when Provis is very ill and Pip is very kind and says‚ "I will never stir from your side" (891). This shows that Pip is willing to forget his own comforts and

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    Adelina Gonzales The Great Expectations is a story told by a man and his upbringing. He tells about his childhood and adulthood. Throughout the story many people go through some ups and downs‚ finding out who they really are‚ and what others are actually like and who those people truly are. This story teaches the reader a lesson about life and what to expect from some people that we think are close to us and who really care for us‚ but in reality they don’t. On the other hand we find out who is

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    Great Expectations Vocabulary 1) Corroborated (vb) Supported or established by existing evidence. “The hue and cry going off to the Hulks‚ and people coming thence to examine the iron‚ Joe’s opinion was corroborated.” Pocket corroborated Pip’s suspicions that Estella had already taken a huband. Sagaciously (adv) Intelligently or wisely. “I sagaciously observed‚ if it didn’t signify to him‚ to whom did it signify?” Pip dozed off as Pumblechook sagaciously

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    tend to get a bad reputation of being uneducated people who have no rights as citizens. Social status in a large town relates to how well people treat a person and see them as they represent themselves throughout the community. In the book Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens explains wealth and popularity in the 1800 ’s as a key factor of life. He allows the reader to see how important it is to be in the upper class‚ but he also makes the reader realize that whether being wealthy or poor that certain

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    Great Influences The novel Great Expectations‚ by Charles Dickens‚ is a story about a young boy‚ Pip‚ who is shown growing many ways throughout the novel. When the story first begins‚ Pip lives with his eldest sister (he is an orphan) and her husband‚ Joe. They are quite poor and live on the marshes. When he is asked to come play at the large house of Miss Havisham‚ he meets Estella‚ Miss Havisham’s haughty‚ beautiful‚ and cruel daughter‚ whom he falls in love with almost immediately‚ and who is

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    English Literature Summer Task The Great Gatsby‚ Life of Pi and Great Expectations: The Opening Chapters The opening chapters of each of these three books are both similar and different in many ways‚ and succeed to keep the reader interested enough to carry on their journey with Pip‚ Nick or Pi. The way characterisation is put forward in these three novels is rather similar‚ in the fact that all three are written in the first person‚ giving the impression that the character in question is telling

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    The portrayal of society in Charles Dickens ’ Great Expectations is that of a symbol of contemporary British civilization‚ with Miss Havisham representing the epitome of such. By utilizing this particular character as the conduit between social body and physical body‚ the author successfully blends together the kinship inherent to these aspects of British life. Miss Havisham is instrumental in establishing the link between the traditional Victorian society and the manner in which women finally

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