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    Great Expectations and Ender’s Game Ender’s game is a book‚ by Orson Scott Card‚ about a young boy named Ender who commits his whole childhood to saving the world from a third alien invasion. Great expectations is a story‚ by Charles Dickens‚ of a young boy who aspires to become a gentleman and out of all odds he is able to make it into higher society. Both Enders game and Great Expectations tell the story of young boys who strive to become something greater than what they are. Although the story

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    Great Expectations: A Character-Driven Novel The novel‚ Great Expectations‚ by Charles Dickens is heavily a character-driven novel due to the fact that the sequence of events in the novel are causes and effects of the actions of the characters as well as the interactions between them. The novel mainly depicts the growth and development of an orphan named Pip‚ who is greatly influenced by the other characters and became a gentleman and a bachelor in the end of the novel through his encounters with

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    When something is done wrong‚ one can’t go back and change it‚ but the guilt can remind them to do better next time or do fix what’s been done. In Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens describes how some characters treat others cruelly or…. Dickens analyzes how those certain characters feel ashamed of their previous actions and how it brought them anguish. As Pip was walking through the marshes‚ he encounters a convict who threatens him to obtain a file and some food. Pip agrees to do so as he didn’t

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    Great expectations Analysing my story board We are reading Great Expectations and our task was to storyboard the opening scene where Pip encounters he convict‚ Magwitch‚ for the first time. I am going to analyse 3 of the 8 frames. First of all‚ I am going to look at Frame number one‚ this is where Pip is at the cemetery mourning over his lot family. I decided to show Pip at the cemetery looking at his parents and his brother’s graves. I did this because it shows a clear and rich understanding

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    The coming-of-age novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a captivating story about a young boy named Pip who is experiencing all of life’s changes as he grows up. Throughout the book the reader see’s Pip grow for better or worse. Pip’s expectations grow in three stages. The first stage is Pip wanting so badly to be a respectable‚ wealthy gentleman‚ the second is Pip becoming a gentleman in hopes that Estella‚ a cruel hearted wealthy girl‚ will love him. Stage three is when he finally comes

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    One theme from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations is the great difference in social classes. Throughout the story the main character‚ Pip‚ goes from living in a small‚ poor village‚ destined to be a blacksmith to becoming a wealthy gentleman who lives in a large home in London. During Pip’s journey a clear divide can be seen between the wealthy‚ high class of England and the poor laborer class. This divide between classes is seen as soon as the first higher class person in the story is mentioned:

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    In the Novel Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens inserts a theme of love into the novel. Not always intimate love‚ and some times the complete lack of love‚ is used. Joe‚ Mrs. Havisham‚ and Magwitch are all themselves capable of different types of love. Dickens examines three kinds of love as seen in Joe‚ Miss Havisham‚ and Magwitch. First‚ love as seen with Joe. The home Pip grows up in‚ under the domineering hand of Mrs. Joe‚ isn’t exactly bursting with love. Only Joe seems to translate his love

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    realization of not being able to attain one’s goal. When people realize they are unable to attain their goal‚ changes occurs. People change when they are unable to attain their goal because they want to distance themselves from their past failures. In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens‚ Pip has lost all his money because Magwitch was captured. Because of his recent failures‚ he decides to visit Biddy and Joe to confess

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    Great Expectations (Chapters 7-25) Chapter 7 1. Dickens is noted for giving his characters names that are descriptive to their personalities. The names often sound like other words or are a pun. How could Mrs. Wopsle’s name be descriptive of her personality? Mrs. Wopsles name describes her personality because “Wopsle” sounds like “wobble” and Mrs. Wopsle is has a very wobbly and carefree personality. 2. How are Biddy and Pip alike? Biddy and Pip are alike because they were both “brought up

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    Ben Benmore How does Dickens present childhood in "Great Expectations"? In Victorian times‚ children had a very suppressive upbringing; "spare the rod and spoil the child" was a common motto. Children were treated poorly and unfairly‚ they were expected to be seen and not heard. In "Great Expectations"‚ Pip is treated very harshly by his sister‚ Mrs Joe‚ "...she had brought me up by hand...and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand". This shows that Pip is hit by Mrs Joe‚ the use of the adjectives

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