I woke with a start in my tiny, dark dorm room. There was a persistent tapping coming from my window. I leaped out of bed and waved my wand groggily. A few candles on my desk lit up, illuminating the shape of a large, snowy owl. "Gamma!" It was the headmaster's owl. He only left his roost for important matters, and in times like these, it could only be bad news. I threw open the sash and took the heavy envelope from his beak. He alighted on my head and watched as I read, Dear Miss Shadowcaster, Something has come up in which I feel your participation would be most fortuitous. Please come immediately to the Hatchery. And do dress warm dear, there's an awful chill. Long live the spiral, -A. Well this was probably from the headmaster, but I figured it could wait till morning. But as I settled back into bed, Gamma dug his talons into my head, and began screeching. "All RIGHT! I'm going!" Darn bird. I had no idea what new madness this would be, so I dressed carefully. Heavy blue cloak, soft leather boots, and my biggest spell deck, with lots of healing spells. I was already wearing my secret amulet. So Gamma and I stole silently down the stairs and out into the commons. When we entered the hatchery, it was full of people talking in excited, hushed voices. I recognized in growing confusion Mr. Lincoln, Dr. Purreau, Prospector Zeke, Sherlock Bones, Cyrus Drake, Professor Greyrose, Milo Barker, an Undead Warlock, a golem, and a wooden puppet. I put my envelope on the jade table in the center. Everyone fell quiet. "Ah there you are, Miss Delaney! We have some exciting news for you." Mr. Lincoln looked like he was about to give me the best present ever. The doctor spoke up. "The council has decided we need a spy to ... ... middle of paper ... ... minions are lucky to have such a master. All of the citizens of the spiral would thank you for your feat- but you mustn't tell a soul. What would you like as a reward?" A reward? Maybe this was worth getting out of bed for. "Sir if I could- I want to keep Pip." "NOOOO!" Milo Barker cried, "he's worth piles of gold!" "Oh Milo, you have plenty of pets," said Ambrose chidingly. "Anyway, the young drake seems to have taken a liking to her already. He is yours, Delaney." "Thank you, headmaster. It was an honor to be chosen. Goodnight, gentlemen. Long live the spiral." "Long live the spiral!" they chorused. And with that Pip and I flew to my dorm, crawled into bed, and fell asleep just as the sun came up on a beautiful Saturday in Ravenwood. I didn't know how I was going to explain my fantastic new pet to my friends, but I knew this adventure wasn't over yet.
The journey to discover one's purpose in life is a long adventure. As Pippin, the son of Charlemagne, tries to find his purpose through war, sex, and politics, he stumbles upon love, which ultimately fulfills his empty heart. All the elements from the music and choreography to the set design make this production a success. Pippin is a marvelous, heroic, musical drama that has elements of humor that shows disconnect between the imaginary and reality, as well as a reoccurring theme of family reunification.
In Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, the author begins the tale by revealing Pip's arrogance towards previous companions. By the end of the story, we learn of Pip's love and compassion for everyone.
Pip in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations "Great Expectations", written by Charles Dickens and set in mid-late Victorian era; is about a boy named Philip Pirrip, better known as Pip and his "great expectations". As a child he lived with his sister and brother in-law Joe. Luck brings him to the aid of a convict, and to the house of a wealthy society lady. After many encounters with her in "Satis house", he seeks a life as a gentleman. A Victorian society gentleman is a man of high social status, and is expected to be wealthy, well educated, come from a wealthy background, and have enough money not to work.
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Pip in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations After reading the compelling ‘Great Expectations’ by the famous writer Charles Dickens, I can gather that it is based upon his own psychological insight to life. He makes connections in relation to a specific character or event in the storyline, which were critical in his own expectations. Also Dickens moulds his selection of characters very well into the desired settings he’d created, that matched what he knew only too well throughout his childhood. ‘Great Expectations’ not only satires the issues of Victorian society, yet centres on the rites of passage that marks an important change in a person’s life. Dickens’ issue of contentment is something that concerns many human beings; this is what Pip wants most.
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"This is Póilín, he's a Belgian Malinois." Tom introduced. I smiled the name meant officer, seemed kind of fitting with the way the dog had followed orders.
The third maddening buzz of my alarm woke me as I groggily slid out of bed to the shower. It was the start of another routine morning, or so I thought. I took a shower, quarreled with my sister over which clothes she should wear for that day and finished getting myself ready. All of this took a little longer than usual, not a surprise, so we were running late. We hopped into the interior of my sleek, white Thunderbird and made our way to school.
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My parents and i bundled into the car as my dad drove across the freeway i had Rufus in my lap i stroked his belly and held his paw all the way to the vets. A tear drop falls across my face. Rufus paws his way to my face and licks it off and whimpers. I smile.
As Pip grows throughout the novel, he develops and matures from a naive, young boy to a moral gentleman by the three main stages that take place throughout his life.
In the novel, “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens, the main character Philip Pirrip, who is known as “Pip” throughout the novel, has a series of great expectations that he goes through. The title of the novel, as many other great book titles, comes with various meanings that are present in the story. In the literal sense Pip’s “great expectations” refer to the 19th century meaning, which involve receiving a large inheritance. Meanwhile, on a deeper level Pip sets goals that he hopes to accomplish in the future which could also be referred to as his “great expectations”. The title, with these multiple meanings that are attached to it, ends up being ironic after all is said and done at the end of the novel.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a coming-of-age story written from December 1860 to 1861. Great Expectations follows the life of Phillip Pirrip, self-named Pip; as his “infant tongue could make of both name nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.” (I, Page 3) The story begins with Pip as a young child, destined to be the apprentice of his blacksmith brother-in-law, Joe Gargery. After spending time with an upper-class elderly woman, Miss Havesham and her adopted daughter, Estella, Estella, with whom he has fallen in love, he realizes that she could never love a person as common as himself, and his view on the social classes change. Pip’s view of society grows and changes with him, from anticipating the apprenticeship of Joe, to the idealization of the gentle class, and eventually turning to the disrespect of the lower class of which he once belonged. Although Pip may grow and physically mature, he did not necessarily grow to be a better person. He loses his childhood innocence and compassion, in exchange for the ways of the gentlemen.