Great Expectations
.... of the one he loves."(Lepp 31) One must be able to unlock the secrets inside their lover and share them together. "He can recognize not only what the beloved is, but also what that beloved has the potentialities to become."(Lepp 31) One should know their lover within and without, knowing who he/she really is and how he/she really feels. In the book "Great Expectations," Joe expresses this unconditional love for his best friend Pip. Even though Pip had abandoned him earlier, Joe still came in hi .....
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Great Expectations
.... by a runaway convict who
demands food and a file to saw off his leg iron. Terrified, Pip steals the requested items from the home where he has been living with his sister and her husband Joe since his parents died. Later on, Pip falls in love with Estella and becomes self-conscious about his low social status and raw manners. Estella is the girl that Pip is in love with and bases his standards around her. From then on, his loyal dream is to become a gentleman in order to be with Estella in the fu .....
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Great Expectations
.... these characters come to life and guide us through the many social guises of ninteenth century England.
Miss Havisham's lazy and indulgent nature is seen through Pip's many vivid descriptions of her as he became progressively more embroiled in Miss Havisham's games. Miss Havisham personified the idle rich as she sat in her mansion, brooding over the past, while still wearing her disintegrating wedding dress. Miss Havisham was obsessed with her failed marriage and created another doomed relat .....
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Great Expectations - Chapter Summaries
.... is called down to play w/Pip. They play cards and Pip asks to go home- When leaving she asks him to return in six days Chapter 8 Setting: At home: Pip reports on his visit w/ Miss H Mr. Pumblechook and Mrs, Joe asked Pip questions Pip lied to them but then told Joe the truth Chapter 9 Setting: In the village; Biddy and a secret looking stranger Joe sometimes went to a public house to smoke his pipe/ Three Jolly Bargemen Joe was there w/ Mr. Wopsle and a stranger &# .....
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Great Expectations - Estella
.... Estella to scorn men and in the card game Miss Havisham wants to see a victory of a woman over a man. Estella wins but the most important thing here is that Estella does not want to play with Pip because she thinks he is common. This shows the pride and the superiority in which Estella is presented in her relation to Pip, and it's also important because, from this moment, Pip wants to be educated to be at the same level that Estella. At the beginning of the novel we, like readers, like Pip because he .....
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Great Expectations - Mrs. Joe
.... in this story and he also is the only one decent enough to care enough about the marraige to try and keep it together by enduring the abuse of Mrs. Joe. Fifth, through love, Joe shows the audience that truly he is not just a very timid man but a whole-hearted man. Truly, it takes a loving man to stay in love with such a woman as Mrs. Joe. No kissing ever took place between Joe and Mrs. Joe (much less child birth), and it becomes clear to the reader that the relationship between Joe and Mrs. Joe is a .....
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Great Expectations - The Book Verses The Movie
.... The story begins with Pip at a graveyard visiting the tombstones of the parents he has never met when suddenly a convict, later identified as Abel Magwitch, threatens to kill Pip if he doesn't bring him a file and wittles (food) the next morning. Pip did steal what the convict wanted, with much fear of his sister, and brought it to the convict the next morning, but found a different convict who ran away, soon after, he found Abel. Subsequently that afternoon, the convicts were captured. Later on, Joe's .....
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Great Expectations And Oliver Twist
.... him in his arms; and shrieked aloud for the beadle."3
The whole beginning of Oliver Twist's story was created from memories which related to Charles Dickens' childhood in a blacking factory ( which was overshadowed by the Marshalsea Prison ).4 While working in the blacking factory, Dickens suffered tremendous humiliation. This humiliation is greatly expressed through Oliver's adventures at the orphanage before he is sent away.
Throughout his lifetime, Dickens appeared to have acquired a fondness for .....
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Great Gatsby
.... was in experience, not how much material he has. He kind of shrugged it off like it was a cheap psychiatrist line. The more he told me about Gastby, it seemed the more he felt he needed to emulate him. He then began to talk of a Mr. Tom Buchannan. Tom was not to Carraway’s liking. He seemed harsh and too masculine to have any relation in Nick’s life. Nick is simple, innocent, and he is just starting out. From what he has told me about him, Tom seems to be a bigot of sorts, not to fond of Nick’s exis .....
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Great Gatsby
.... it may seem that way. He only comes into riches so that he can fulfill his true American Dream, Daisy. Gatsby does not rest until his American Dream is finally fulfilled. However, it never comes about and he ends up paying the ultimate price for it. Gatsby's own characteristics, especially his willful obsessions, contribute to his fate. Despite his naivete about Daisy and her friends who "are rich and play polo together," he, too, has been seduced by the lure of money and fame. Unable to control his obs .....
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Great Gatsby
.... he was successful at making money in business, Jay Gatsby was never able to become a man as successful as Dan Cody who had everything he wanted in life. The experiences with Cody however, helped Gatsby to later pursue a job in business. We are introduced to the business side of Gatsby in the person of Meyer Wolfsheim. Wolfsheim is modeled on the real-life figure of Arnold Rothstein, the man who helped fix the 1919 World Series. Through Wolfsheim, we learn about Gatsby's connections with a shady underworld, .....
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Great Gatsby
.... her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!" ( ). This poem is a perfect description of how Gatsby tries to buy Daisy, and her love. All these enlighten us to Gatsby's personality, we know Gatsby is willing to use an unlimited source of income to actually buy many things to prove his worth to Daisy. He will buy a house that takes, even him, three years to pay for and purchases clothes every Spring and Fall. He does all he can in .....
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Great Gatsby
.... the billboard tells the readers that even though God may watch over His people, he is being ignored in this novel, which is symbolized by the decaying billboard: "his eyes, dimmed a little by many paint less days under the sun and rain" (28). George Wilson is the owner of the car garage in the Valley of Ashes. When Nick first meets Wilson he describes him as a "blonde, spiritless, man" the description fits him well because Wilson works on machines, especially cars (29). Machines are the .....
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Great Gatsby - Dreams
.... purpose of impressing Daisy with his material objects, which is a sign of how the corruption was affecting how he used money to achieve his ideal. The things that Gatsby used to show his wealth to others, are all of the antiques and his library full of leather bound classics which were unopened. At one party Jordan and a man spoke about the books, "Absolutely real - have real pages and everything. I'd thought they'd be a nice durable cardboard."2 The books and antiques are Gatsby's way of showing off his .....
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Great Gatsby - Morals
.... his morals by breaking the law to earn the riches he thinks will buy her love but it is done for nothing, Daisy was not won over with his new wealth. A final character that succumbs to the lure of wealth and discards their morals is Daisy. Daisy is involved in a marriage with a man she is unsure of her love for. Tom is unfaithful, and has been involved in several affairs, yet Daisy remains married to him. Long ago when she was involved with Gatsby, she had ended the relationship because he was not of he .....
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