Great Expectations starts off very somber and depressing right from the get-go. We learn within the first few paragraphs that Pip's mother, father, and five out of his six siblings are deceased, and the story starts with him at a graveyard crying. Charels Dickens uses depressing, emotionally charged words like "bleak" and "dark" and "graveyard" and "damp" and "misty" to set a sort of spooky, creepy mood. I love the imagery and dialect of the characters, and I totally understand now just how good he was at making his characters realistic and believable. I can see the connections between the tragedies in Pip's life and his own. It makes enough sense, since this was written after some of his darkest days. I mostly felt very depressed reading these first few chapters, and I suppose this might have been how he was feeling, or had felt before writing Great Expectations.
Great Expectations chapters 1-3 -
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