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    Great Expectations Essay The story Great Expectations is best viewed through the class studies critical lens with a contrast between rich and poor. Miss Havisham’s estate and Uncle Pumblechook are comparable to the life of Pip and the family he lives with because they are upper class and lower class. In just the first 30 minutes of the story‚ the recurring motif of rich versus poor is expressed three times. First‚ when Pip is forced by Uncle Pumblechook to go to Miss Havisham so that his family

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    Japan. I stayed some days at a Zen temple in Kyoto. There I met a very wise monk. He taught me a lot of interesting things. I learned a lot of him. Section 1 (p. 1-49) 1. Character list * Mr Watts (Pop eye) * ‘Everyone called him Pop Eye’ * ‘He looked like someone who had seen or known great suffering and hadn’t been able to forget it’ * ‘His large eyes in his large head stuck out further than anyone else’slike they wanted to leave the surface of his face’

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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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    Analyse how one main character changed to become more admirable In the novel “Mister Pip” written by Lloyd Jones‚ the protagonist of the novel Matilda has faced many challenges through the novel which she has lost a lot of her world. This includes *her mother and possessions which creates one of the main ideas of loss. Matilda’s way of escaping the violence in her world is turning to the book ‘Great Expectations’ which is introduced by Mr Watts which helps them create a new dimension *. Lloyd Jones

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    Mr Pip Revision Notes Context Bougainville is part of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon islands. Australian company builds in Panguna‚ Papua New Guinea on the island of Bougainville. Islanders had no benefit from this. Very little of earnings were given to island workers. ‘Wontok’ system of redskins taking jobs‚ elbowing locals out of jobs Devastates ecology of the area. Affects locals who rely on nature. Water undrinkable Killed plants and animals Destroyed rainforests Social injustice

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    be. Throughout the course of the novel she stops complaining about spending time with her aunt and starts acting more like a lady without realizing it. Thanks to Atticus’s wisdom‚ Scout learns that though humanity has a great capacity for evil‚ it also has a great capacity for good‚ and that the evil can often be mitigated if one approaches others with an outlook of sympathy and understanding. Scout’s development into a person capable of assuming that outlook

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    the novel because that’s the power of storytelling. She shared how Esperanza was in difficult situations in her life‚ which some of us can agree with or understand. Also‚ in the novel Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens shares the life of Pip and his journey. This relates to our discussion because by hearing how Pip had grown into a gentlemen‚ may inspire some of us to grow up and become more successful and thank the people who had helped us along our

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    extracts I will be analysing are from the novel Great Expectations written by Charles Dickens. I am going to be describing how Dickens has succeeded in making the reader feel sorry for Pip. Dickens used his own experiences as a boy to help him write sympathetically of being a young child‚ his family had no money and got transferred from city to city until he was ten years old‚ his father was also sent to prison for six months over debt. He based the character Pip in remembrance of himself as a child‚ writing

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    The story ‘’Mister Pip’’ unfolds as it introduces Matilda‚ a young bouvilligan teenage girl who develops a trusting relationship with the islands only white man‚ Mr Watts – known as Pop eye to the villagers‚ who willingly puts himself forward to be Matilda and her class mates teacher‚ as all the other people had escaped from the island in time for missing the blockade‚ along with Matildas father. The two minor characters I am going to explore is Dolores‚ Matildas mother‚ and Joseph‚ Matildas father

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    Quote Response “‘... in the ease of his temper‚ and the straitness of his means‚ he appeared to have utterly lost at this time the idea of educating me at all’” (p.58). In Great Expectations‚ Joe’s father made alcohol a priority‚ forgetting about the fact that his own son needed to be educated. This is exactly like Charles Dickens’ childhood since he couldn’t get an education either because his father went to jail for his debts. Both Joe and Charles Dickens had to work at a really young age to

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