protagonist to "Great Expectations"‚ Pip is kind and compassionate‚ devoted to his friends‚ and always willing to lend a hand to someone in need. Though his "great expectations" tend to lead him astray‚ Pip always manages to redeem himself- relying on his conscience and inherently kind nature to pull him through. Joe’s attitude toward Pip is full of kindness‚ staying along his abusive wife solely out of love for him. He is a strong example for Pip‚ teaching him that common sense doesn’t
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the main character‚ Pip. Pip is a young orphan child that lives with his sister‚ Mrs. Joe‚ and her husband‚ Joe and is best friends with a beautiful‚ smart girl named Biddy. He lives a happy childhood with his apprentice‚ Joe‚ until one day Uncle Pumplechook invites him to “play” at Miss Havisham’s house. Miss Havisham is a rich‚ victimized woman who wears her wedding dress from the day her fiancée abounded her at the alter. This is the beginning of Pip’s new adventure of life. Pip instantly falls in
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due to their appearance through the character of Compeyson. Specifically‚ when Pip is describing Compeyson’s outward appearance‚ Pip says that he looks at him very
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hands motif is used as a symbol to portray the relationships between the members of different classes. For starters‚ upon Pip and Estella’s first meeting Estella comments on Pip’s hands and Pip reads deeply into it‚ “And what coarse hands he has!’…I had never thought of being ashamed of my hands before‚ but I began to consider them a very indifferent pair” (Dickens 59). From Pips low class viewpoint he had never seen hands as an important aspect of himself‚ however‚ because of Estella’s high class
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A memoir vs a fictional film A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah and The Inevitable defeat of Mister and Pete written by Michael Starrbury and directed by George Tillman Jr. show similarities in poverty and family but also differences. Poverty is represented by food‚ shelter and money. In the book and the movie‚ family is something that keeps the main characters going. A memoir and a fictional film are similar but different in certain ways. Poverty is shown in the memoir when the war starts. Ishmael
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The Mister Donut® success story In 1955‚ two brothers-in -law‚ Harry Winouker and Bill Rosenberg‚ broke off their partnership‚ each to begin his own chain of coffee and doughnut shops. Harry founded Mister Donut and Bill founded Dunkin Donuts. Mr. Winouker’s began selling doughnuts on the streets of Boston. His products were met with great demand that he began to deliver his doughnuts to office workers in Boston’s downtown. Eventually‚ Mister Donut business that began as an ambulant store became
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Pip As a bildungsroman‚ Great Expectations presents the growth and development of a single character‚ Philip Pirrip‚ better known to himself and to the world as Pip. As the focus of the bildungsroman‚ Pip is by far the most important character in Great Expectations: he is both the protagonist‚ whose actions make up the main plot of the novel‚ and the narrator‚ whose thoughts and attitudes shape the reader’s perception of the story. As a result‚ developing an understanding of Pip’s character is
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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 great
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Pumblechook’s characters influence the way Pip feels about himself by treating him without respect or regard to his thoughts. The way Mrs. Joe establishes her dominance within the family‚ by constantly beating and dragging down both Joe and Pip‚ makes Pip lose confidence in his ability to speak and stick up for himself: “... nor because I was not allowed to speak (I didn’t want to speak)... No; I should not have minded that if they would only have left me alone” (19). Pip ponders these things during the Christmas
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The boy comes to learn some hard lessons in life. In this story Dickens wants us to realise that being rich is not the most important thing in life compared to love and loyalty. Pip meets a convict in the graveyard where the story starts. The convict scares pip into stealing some food for him‚ and also a file. Pip goes back to the graveyard to give him the food and the file. The convict scoffs the food down and manages to file his chains off. The next day the army turns up at Pip’s house to ask
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