Great expectations literary elements

Summer Assignment • Inner conflict is when a character has mixed feeling within him self. Pip has an inner conflict in the beginning of the book. When he runs into the run away convict, the convict told him to get a file and wittles Pip agrees to do it out of fear. When he gets back to his house he is about to take it. He then thinks of what he is actually doing. He realizes that he is stealing from his favorite person in the world, Joe. He is then conflicted of what to do. On one hand he is scared of being murdered by the people he ran into. On the other hand he does not want to steal from Joe. He ends up taking the file and wittles. • Imagery is when the narrator or character describes in detail what they see. When Pip enters Ms. Havisham’s house Pip goes into detail what he sees each step, which makes the reader seem like the reader is in the house him/her self. • “Joe was a fair man, with eyes of such a very undecided blue that they seemed to have somehow got mixed with their own whites. He was a mild, good natured, sweet tempered, easy going, foolish, dear fellow – a sort of Hercules in strength and weakness”
This was a characterization of Joe. Joe was Pip’s brother in law. Joe was a very good man who saw the best in his wife (Pip’s sister) when Pip saw the worst. The characterization in this book showed what Pip thought of the people he knew. When he characterized his sister he characterized her in a negative way. I used Joe because he really liked and looked up to Joe.

• “It was like pushing the chair itself back into the past, when we began the old slow circuit round about the ashes of the bridal feast. But, in the funeral room, with that figure of the grave fallen back in the chair fixing its eyes upon her, Estella looked more bright and beautiful than before, and I was under stronger enchantment”
This quote was a metaphor for Pip’s love of Estella. Estella was the girl who took care of Ms. Havisham. Ever since they met Estella was