... by the fact that he loves someone who doesn't even like him. Characterization Character Description: Pip: At the begginning of the story Pip is a young boy boy with fat cheeks and he is small and weak for his age. This is described in the story when Pip states, " I believe they (his cheeks ... ) were fat, though I was at that time undersized for my years, and not strong." (Chapter 1, Page 2) He was an innocent, polite and caring boy but then changed into a snob who forgot about his old friends. Throughout the whole story his personality color was gold. His caring personality comes out in...

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... void of any feeling or emotion, lacking any character or softness: "All the public inscriptions in the town were painted alike, in severe characters of black and white" (31). These letters, like the rest of Coketown, are lacking any vibrant or lively coloration, and are drawn out precisely to ... scene, their industrialized way of thinking made it of utmost importance to discard the "ethereal" figure from view. It sank back into the black darkness they brought with them from Coketown. While it was an accepted and even prominent feature of this building, it would be hardly understood by ...

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... , I know! One Christmas time, when yonder solitary child was left here all alone, he did come, for the first time, just like that. Poor boy!", Scrooge exclaimed in ecstasy". Scrooge speaks very enthusiastically, on a topic that he wouldn't have dreamed of so much as pondering over, before the spirit came ... broken voice, "remove me from this place.", and the ghost escorts him back home, to ponder all that he has seen. He contrasts himself with the boy he once was. He used to be cheerful, lively, upbeat, compassionate, and imaginative, all qualities which he lost over the years. Mostly, ...

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... until the switch comes with the fog being 'in the eyes and throats' and 'cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little 'prentice boy on deck' to the metaphorical. The latter, while it could still be considered a physical fog, indicates instead the extended metaphor of the city's sickness, ... concern was primarily the social hierarchy and how fair, or unfair, it was. In the given passage, as mentioned previously, the fog cruelly pinches the little boy and yet, here, where it all comes to a head, 'the raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest' th...

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... Magwitch is not very well and says to him "I think you have got the ague." And Magwitch agrees with Pip and says "I"m much of your opinion boy." Magwitch shows trust in Pip he asks Pip if he has brought anyone with him and Pip tells him no. Magwitch replies to this saying "I believe you ... feels sympathy for Magwitch "pitying his desolation." Pip tells Magwitch he is glad he enjoyed the pie in which Magwitch replies "Thankee, my boy. I do." The use of calling Pip "my boy" showing more warmth between them, this also shows he may see Pip as the kind of son he would love. It's showing a ....

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1. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, 1840-1850 Victorian Era 2. Pip-Pip's real name is Philip Pirrip but as a young boy he could not pronounce it and was given the nickname Pip. Pip was an orphan since birth and his brother-in-law, Joe Gargery, has been his father figure, raising ... his lower station in life. Even when his "shackles" are cut and he is given the chance to rise he is unable to do so. Black Widow-Estella's dark hair is symbolic of the black-bodied black widow, and when she's excited and flushed her reddened cheeks are much like the bright red hourglass shape on back of the ...

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... hulks are and how they indicate that a prisoner has escaped: "Mrs. Joe," said I, "I should like to know-if you wouldn't much mind-where the firing comes from." "Lord bless the boy!" exclaimed my sister, as if she didn't quite mean that, but rather the contrary. "From the Hulks!" "Oh-h!" said I, looking at Joe. "Hulks!" Joe gave a reproached cough, as much as ... to say, "Well, I told you so." "And please, what's Hulks?" and I. "That's the way with this boy!" exclaimed my sister. "Answer him one question, and he"ll ask you a dozen directly. Hulks are prison-ships, right "cross th" meches...

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... serpents" and "the head of an elephant". From the "coiling serpent" we can direct the idea that Coketown is also an immoral and sinful place and the thought of the "black river", an allusion to the river Styx, almost makes it look like hell. All the streets look alike, all the people look alike, their days are all like the previous ... is Cecilia Jupe, the second character that is introduced. The first sign that the reader gets of this is the ray of sunlight that shines on her and on a young boy named Bitzer. This ray contrasts the two, making Cecilia more radiant and full of warmth and...

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... sadness in the book. Scrooge falls asleep and wakes up to find the Ghost of Christmas Past, who shows Scrooge scenes from the past that trace Scrooge's development from a young boy, lonely but with the potential for happiness to a young man with the 2 first traces of greed that would deny love in his life. Scrooge goes to sleep and is awakened ... tells Scrooge that he must change the future or the Cratchit's crippled son Tiny Tim would die. He also shows Scrooge the party at his nephews house Fred. The silent black- clad Ghost Of Christmas Yet to Come replaces the other ghost. He shows...

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... " This adds to the insignificance of Pip in the presence of this immutable landscape. The name "Pip" is a child-like nickname. It conveys the helplessness and irrelevance of a small young boy. Throughout the novel Pip remains in a child-like state of suspension, lacking vital knowledge about his benefactors identity. However, the way Dickens has related this to us is not sentimental ... anything they have ever seen before. There is juxtaposition between the storm at its most fierce with the silence afterwards: "A sulphurous smell filled the air, then all was silent and black as a cave" A...

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