Different Types Of Power In Lloyd Jones's Novel 'Mister Pip'
Fariba Payvandi
Ms. Eleftheriou
ENG 3U0
January 16, 2012
Different Types of Power Power, everyone craves, but is it not easy to hold on to once it is obtained. In this essay, different forms of power will be addressed through Lloyd Jones’s novel “Mister Pip”. Mister Pip is about a young girl named Matilda and how a book, called “Great Expectation”, helped her, and changed her life forever. This novel, “Mister Pip,” shows different kinds of power and what words can do that actions sometimes fail at, and that words can bring someone power and freedom, and also gives the responsibility of safe keeping to those that are using it. In the novel “Mister Pip”, Lloyd Jones has many different examples of power also ways of showing how power is abused …show more content…
If she had run back to our house to produce the book she would have had to explain how it got there in the first place. For the same reason, I could not give the book back to Mr. Watts, I would have to say where I found it. To do so would be to betray my mum.” (Jones 109)
The form of power here is parental; it is used as a trust issue and abused by keeping a secret so big that it could have saved so many people in so many ways. Also Mr. Watts form of power was, the power of words, which is a very significant one in this particular book. Mr. Watts reads the book “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens and without any hesitations all of the students in the class became interested with the words and the context. “As we progresses through the book something happened to me. At some point I felt myself enter the story. I hadn’t been assigned a part – nothing like that; I wasn’t identifiably on the paper, but I was there, I was definitely there,” (Jones 46 and 47)
In this quote Matilda is talking about how deep the connection to the book actually is. Lastly the form of power that was used by Matilda is the power to accept and escape from
Ms. Eleftheriou
ENG 3U0
January 16, 2012
Different Types of Power Power, everyone craves, but is it not easy to hold on to once it is obtained. In this essay, different forms of power will be addressed through Lloyd Jones’s novel “Mister Pip”. Mister Pip is about a young girl named Matilda and how a book, called “Great Expectation”, helped her, and changed her life forever. This novel, “Mister Pip,” shows different kinds of power and what words can do that actions sometimes fail at, and that words can bring someone power and freedom, and also gives the responsibility of safe keeping to those that are using it. In the novel “Mister Pip”, Lloyd Jones has many different examples of power also ways of showing how power is abused …show more content…
If she had run back to our house to produce the book she would have had to explain how it got there in the first place. For the same reason, I could not give the book back to Mr. Watts, I would have to say where I found it. To do so would be to betray my mum.” (Jones 109)
The form of power here is parental; it is used as a trust issue and abused by keeping a secret so big that it could have saved so many people in so many ways. Also Mr. Watts form of power was, the power of words, which is a very significant one in this particular book. Mr. Watts reads the book “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens and without any hesitations all of the students in the class became interested with the words and the context. “As we progresses through the book something happened to me. At some point I felt myself enter the story. I hadn’t been assigned a part – nothing like that; I wasn’t identifiably on the paper, but I was there, I was definitely there,” (Jones 46 and 47)
In this quote Matilda is talking about how deep the connection to the book actually is. Lastly the form of power that was used by Matilda is the power to accept and escape from