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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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    Coming of age essay: Pip’s realizations & growth in ‘Great Expectations’ “I had never thought of being ashamed of my hands before; but I began to consider them a very indifferent pair. Her contempt for me was so strong‚ that it became infectious‚ and I caught it." (Dickens 64) A child’s journey through adolescence can be affected easily by the words and views of others. At the beginning of the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens‚ we are introduced to a Victorian London era‚ and more specifically

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    Respect is something that should be withheld until it is earned. For instance‚ Pip in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations and Amir in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner exemplified individuals who earned respect and honor through their dedication and hard work. In Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations‚ Pip is a young orphan who lives with his sister and brother in law. They lead an impoverished lifestyle off of bits of bread so when Pip is introduced to the lavish lifestyles of Miss Havisham and

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    mode" in Great Expectations? Great Expectations is like a fairy tale without a fairy tale ending‚ reinforcing the idea that we need to make our own way in life‚ and can’t expect it to be given to us. A poor orphan is granted riches by a secret benefactor. It sounds like the plot of a fairy tale. Great Expectations may start out as a fairy tale‚ but in the end the poor orphan is left not much better off than he started--except that he’s wiser for it. Like most fairy tales‚ Great Expectations intends

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    Victorian society widely accepted the standards of femininity‚ masculinity‚ and motherhood. However‚ the novel Great Expectations incorporates contradictions within these social norms with female characters who dishonor the principles and male characters who replace the role of the failed women. Author Charles Dickens subverts popular Victorian ideals and stereotypes in Great Expectations through the characters Mrs. Joe‚ Miss Havisham‚ and Joe Gargery. Mrs. Joe‚ Pip’s overbearing and tyrannical sister

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    go. Those dreams were what we lived for. We may have wanted to be an actor‚ or an astronaut. A painter‚ or a pilot. Pip has always had his mind set to being a blacksmith‚ but later realized that he has changed his mind about it. The theme of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is that what you may desire the most in life may not be best for you. Ever since Pip was a little boy‚ he has always longed to follow Joe’s footsteps to become a blacksmith himself. After visiting Satis House‚ Pip’s “eyes

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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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    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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    Why do readers find Great Expectations so enjoyable? Michael Johnson Dickens uses pathetic fallacy to illustrate the predicament that faces the characters in the novel. It also depicts the emotions the characters feel and indicates how the scene is going to change. For example‚ the dramatic weather change‚ conveyed in the line‚ “The evening mist was rising now‚” during the second ending when Estella and Pip meet‚ mirrors the realisation of Pip and Estella’s true feelings for each other.

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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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