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Great Expectations Chapters 10-12

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Great Expectations Chapters 7-9

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Great Expectations Chapters 4-6

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What's in a Name? (Great Expectations)

The title almost says it all. Great Expectations is about a poor boy being raised by his horrible older sister and her much kinder husband. He falls in love with a yound lady and goes to the trouble of becoming a gentleman to woo and marry her. But, when his dreams are realized, it turns out to be nothing like what he expected. 'Sounds very depressing.

Great Expectations Chapters 1-3

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.
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