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Mister Pip Essay Prompt #2
Foundations
Mr. Suomi
For this essay, you can choose to answer either of the two questions below. Make sure that you choose one and answer it specifically. You can write either a four paragraph or a five paragraph essay. Make sure that you give yourself time to finish the essay and to do some proofreading and editing at the end. Think about everything that we have been talking about writing over the last couple of weeks.
Question #1: What does Great Expectations mean to Matilda? Think carefully and show me what Lloyd Jones implies about the book and its meaning to Matilda. You need a thesis that sums up the meaning to Matilda and either two or three topic sentences that hit some specific meanings. Think about
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Lloyd Jones shows this using the Characters Matilda and Mr. Watts. Matilda’s father leaves her and her mother when she is younger so when she meets Mr. Watts Matilda latches on to him and adopts him as her father. Mr. Watts acts as a father figure to Matilda, he gives her hope during hard times and protects her from the confusion and violence on the island.
Mr. Watts gives Matilda hope with the book Great Expectations. Matilda longs for the fighting on the island to stop. “What did I hope for? Just hope itself, really, but in a particular way. I knew things could change because they had for Pip(Jones 51)”. Matilda was able to stay hopeful despite all that was going on on the island. Great Expectations brings her hope because it showed her that “things could change”. She saw that Pip’s life changed drastically and hoped that hers could do the same. Once she saw that things could change she knew that the fighting on the island wouldn’t last forever. Mr. Watts provided a source of hope for Matilda and her classmates during a time of need and
Strained Relationships, Resentment and Indignation Between the Classes in Great Expectations Great expectations is a profound story. It contains the theme of love,
Throughout the novel Great Expectations, Pip's character and personality goes through some transformations. He is somewhat similar at the beginning and end, but very different while growing up. He is influenced by many characters, but two in particular:Estella and Magwitch, the convict from the marshes. Some things that cause strength or growth in a person are responsibility, discipline, and surrounding oneself around people who are challenging and inspiring. He goes through many changes some good and some bad
By using her optimism she is able to try and see the good in any situation, and her hopefulness encourages her to keep going, that one day things will get better. After Fourth Brother tries to send three heavy books on to Ye Ye’s head, Adeline’s hopefulness is obvious. “It’s bound to get better. One day things will be different. Life won’t go on like this forever. I don’t know when, how or what but I’ll come back and rescue you from this. I promise.” Just by thinking these words Adeline was able to comfort herself, a new feeling of optimism for her and Ye Ye. Adeline’s hopefulness also shows at boarding school in Hong Kong, where she is first in the mail line, waiting and hoping for letters that never come. “Never gets any letters either, although she’s always first in line when the mail gets delivered.” Another example of her optimism and hopefulness is when she and her friends are talking on the balcony at the end of term. “More than anything, I yearn to grow up, get out of here and see the world. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the three of us could sail away on one those big boats...?” Adeline shows very clearly that she has a hopeful and optimistic attittude to help get her through the hard
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.
The love and support from Miss Honey encouraged Matilda to get smarter and work harder in her life, encouraged her to be happier with herself no matter the social stigma placed upon her by her family. This allows Matilda to be two different people- one person around Miss Honey, and another around the
Settings in “Great Expectations” have an important relation with the story. Authors usually use settings to set forth the tone and mood of the story. The novel is based around Pip, an orphan who has been raised by his elder sister Mrs. Joe. Pip narrates the book “Great Expectations” as he grows up and goes through many obstacles. Important characters that have been mentioned are Pip, Miss Havisham, Estella, Mrs. and Mr. Joe.
The seed is “dried to something light as a husk… three months later a sapling grows out of the earth… nine months later its white flowers open.” The frame narrative of Mister Pip allows the audience to witness Pip’s juggling of his innately good conscience and his superficial values in Great Expectations, and Matilda’s disapproval of his pursuit of a new gentlemanly life of idleness. Mr Watts comments that “Pip is in the process of migrating from one level of society to another. He is given the chance to create his own self and destiny.” As a bildungsroman, Great Expectations focuses on Pip’s psychological and moral growth, which resembles the heart seed’s growth cycle.
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The main character, Pip, is a gentle character. His traits include humbleness, kindness, and lovingness. These traits are most likely the cause of his childhood poverty. In the beginning of the story, Pip is a mild mannered little boy who goes on with his own humble life. That, though, will change as he meets Magwich, a thief and future benefactor. Pip’s kindness goes out to help the convict, Magwich when he gives food and clothing to him. Magwich tells Pip that he’ll never forget his kindness and will remember Pip always and forever. This is the beginning of Pip’s dynamic change. Throughout the novel, Great Expectations, the character, Pip gradually changes from a kind and humble character to a character that is bitter, then snobbish and finally evolves into the kind and loving character which he was at the beginning of the story.
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Matilda had a lot of relationships throughout the story and each relationship affected her life. She had a friendship with a young black girl named Lavender in her class. Lavender filled all of Matilda’s friendship needs. She was smart and funny, she caused Matilda to feel affirmed and made her feel worthy. When Matilda first go to school Lavender helped her find her way and made her feel welcome. A love relationship that Matilda had was with Miss. Honey. Miss. Honey and Matilda had an agape type of love, it was compassionate and selfless. They accepted each other and respected each other. Matild risked her life to get Miss. Honey her doll and candy back from The Trunchbull, because she wanted to see Miss. Honey happy. Miss. Honey paid a visit to the Wormwood household to bring Matilda extra work because she saw how smart she is, she also asked The Trunchbull to move Matilda up a grade because she was so smart. Matilda’s family relationships were all very poor. She had a brother, a mother, and a father. All of which did not fill their responsibilities to Matilda. They have a responsibility to “comfort when family members are distressed, to take pleasure in their pleasures, to feel their pain, to raise their spirits” (DeVito). The Wormwood’s never did that for Matilda, the constantly either belittled her or ignored her completely. The relationships that Matilda had were a large part of the plot and motif of the
It can be seen through Dickens’s highly successful novel Great Expectations, that his early life events are reflected into the novel. Firstly the reader can relate to Dickens’s early experiences, as the novel’s protagonist Pip, lives in the marsh country, and hates his job. Pip also considers himself, to be too good for his ...
In Great Expectations, the three main settings: the Forge, Satis House and London affect the atmosphere of the novel, as well as Pip’s emotions. The three main locations make Pip who he is, and it represents the aspects of himself – his hopes, fear, pride, and shame. Each of these three locations has symbolic characters which represents the aspects of Pip and also the mood.
These elements are crucial to the structure and development of Great Expectations: Pip's maturation and development from child to man are important characteristics of the genre to which Great Expectations belongs. In structure, Pip's story, Great Expectations, is a Bildungsroman, a novel of development. The Bildungsroman traces the development of a protagonist from his early beginnings--from his education to his first venture into the big city--following his experiences there, and his ultimate self-knowledge and maturation. Upon the further examination of the characteristics of the Bildungsroman as presented here it is clear that Great Expectations, in part, conforms to the general characteristics of the English Bildungsroman. However, there are aspects of this genre from which Dickens departs in Great Expectations. It is these departures that speak to what is most important in Pip's development, what ultimately ma...
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