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    still wearing the wedding gown which has worn into a yellow cloth that drapes around her body in remembrance of her lovers betrayal to the visual we get of the wedding dinner set up in the same array including the wedding cake laying upon the table. One thing that is noted throughout the entire house would be the time‚ which is simultaneously set to mark the time which she learned of

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    Well within those chapters of the story " Great Expectations" Magwitch which is Pips bean factor and also the thief that made Pip bring him food has died in prison. Before he died though he tell Pip about his daughter which is a coincidence because Pip is in love with his daughter Estella. So as he dies talking about his daughter Pip would go through a change. Basically because now the way he saw the world has changed. Like how him and Magwitch didn’t get off at a good start but he sent him money

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    personally don’t usually think about reliving past moments but if I could I would go back to when I was being born so that my dad could actually be there. He was traveling for work so he couldn’t make it and didn’t get there until the next day. Chapter 1 1. Notice how many times Fitzgerald uses the words hope‚ or dream. Why does he do this? It shows how the book is about dreams and that the story starts about the narrator and we learn his hopes and dreams. 2. Nick starts the novel by relaying

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    Compare Chapter 1 of ‘Great Expectations’ in which Pip first meets the convict with Chapter 39 when the convict returns. The first thing that could be noted when comparing these two chapters is the length of each. Though this could be passed over‚ I think is shows how a small a difference the convict made to Pip in chapter 1 but the much bigger impact he made in chapter 39. From the second paragraph in chapter 1‚ Dickens tries to get the reader’s sympathy to be directed towards Pip. He

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    Owen Marshall Honors Language Arts‚ Lohman March 27‚ 2013 Chapter 8 This chapter begins with Nick talking to Gatsby after the horrible events of the night before. Gatsby tells Nick how he spent his night waiting for Daisy to see him just for her to ignore him the whole time. He then tells Nick about why he fell in love with Daisy‚ and why he is still so deeply attached to her. Nick then leaves for work‚ shouting to Gatsby reassuring words seeing as he is obviously lost and depressed. After Nick

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    analyzing and comparing The Catcher in the Rye and Great Expectations‚ by J.D. Salinger and Charles Dickens respectively‚ one usually stops and ponders‚ what can these two novels possibly have in common? Well I can tell you‚ quite a lot. To begin with‚ both are fictional autobiographies‚ narrated personally by the protagonists‚ that is Holden and Pip. However‚ regardless of the fact that they are both narrated in the first person‚ oneGreat Expectations is a full life story‚ and you can tell by the very

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    Once he has met Estella‚ the young maiden who drives his childhood fixation‚ his way of life progressively becomes more apparent making his antipathy towards himself and others more apparent than ever. Meeting the young maiden quickly makes him regret being a “simple” blacksmith and regretting that Mr.Joe raised him so. On page (67) when they’re playing cards Pip calls them Jacks instead of knaves much to Estella’s entertainment and distaste‚ ostracizing his lack of knowledge. This leads Pip to

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    In the novel Great Expectations‚ the author Charles Dickens uses the first person narrative throughout the novel. The first person narrative is the main character‚ Pip. However‚ in this book the first person narrative comes in a retrospective form‚ with Pip looking back on his life. The retrospective point of view is key in this story for the reaction of the readers to the plot. In Great Expectations‚ the retrospective first person point of view makes the main character Pip unreliable‚ makes the

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    Dickens uses this description of the Havisham Manor to give Pip’s impression of surrealness surrounding Miss Havisham and her house. Pip has just been apprenticed to Joe and goes to visit Miss Havisham‚ and‚ as he walks home‚ he reflects on the decrepitness and the age of the house and its contents. As the sentence progresses‚ Dickens chooses to order his descriptions in increasing intensity of spookiness and specificity‚ seemingly ‘zooming’ in to smaller and smaller objects and ending with the

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    The chapter starts out with Nick writing and depicting the burial service two years after Gatsby died. Nick describes the swarms of columnists‚ writers‚ and gossipmongers at the house after the murder. They take the information that they received and write up insane‚ edgy stories about Gatsby and the ways of his relationship to Myrtle and Wilson. Nick feels that Gatsby would not want to have a memorial service alone‚ so he attempts to hold a substantial burial service for him. From Nick’s attempt

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