Dickens

DICKENS COURSEWORK
GREAT - EXPECTATIONS
At the start of Dickens, great expectations it’s unusual and eye catching, this is because Pip’s a small little boy wondering around the graveyard all on his own. Therefore, this would make the reader want to read on. However, In the first five paragraphs of the story we learn about Pip as a small boy, Pip short for ‘Phillip Pirrip’ is a quite young and small boy, we can tell this because of the quotes such as ‘ my mother was freckled and sickly’. However, this young and small little boy has a very creative mind and a large imagination. The thing that makes him creative minded, and the thing that gets him a large imagination is that he got the presumption from his mother & father’s grave stones. Although all of Pips family is dead, he still has someone to care for him and look after him; this someone would be the only member of his family that’s left alive. As therefore, the only member of Pips family who’s alive is Pips sister ‘Mrs. Joe Gargery who is married to the Blacksmith’. Anyhow Pip had five brothers who died along with Pips mother & father. As therefore, the five brothers were called ‘Alexander being one, Bartholomew being two, Abraham being three, Tobias being four, and Roger being the last of them all, the fifth brother. However, Pip lives with his sister and brother in law. Also where Pip lives it’s very secluded and it’s not a pleasant place to live in, this is because it’s away from any life or normal life. Anyhow, you can tell that where Pip’s living it’s away from any life, because of some quotes in the story. As therefore the quotes which make the place feel away from any life are, ‘dark flat wildernesses, ‘ours was the marsh country’, and ’20 miles of sea’. However, these quotes tell us far more than where Pip lives. As therefore, the other thing that the quotes tell us is the atmosphere Dickens is trying to create, in other words build up. We can tell that Dickens is trying to build up atmosphere because...