2. Dickens uses an abundance of different devices in order to describe Mrs. Gargery. Mrs. Gargery is described to be:
One who takes pride in a great reputation, and works hard to establish one
A women who cares for her husband but can be temperamental towards him at times
A foul looking women, tall and bony, and always enrobed in a coarse apron
Someone who has a hidden monstrous …show more content…
The graveyard scene contributes to the mood and atmosphere of the story by describing an eerie place and leading into a chilling monologue. The Graveyard scene is described using words like bleak, vivid, dark, flat, course, and darkly, all very sinister verbs. The man who threatens Pip is described as dark, scary man, who a hunger for human blood. The setting of the scene, a graveyard, is excess-ably self describing, as graveyards are usually the scenes of paranormal, menacing, activity. The monologue throughout the scene also contributes to the mood and atmosphere by leaving the readers frightened and on …show more content…
The weather or setting of the story could have a great affect on the atmosphere of the story, but if the character telling the story is inside a building the entire time, how will the weather have any affect on the story? It takes an experienced and detail orientated author to perfect first person story telling. One last disadvantage to telling the story in first person is that the perspective and perceptions of the story are extremely limited when you are telling a story through first person. The reader has limited opportunities to create their own opinion and views on the story, compared to when a narrator is telling the story, which creates endless opportunities to create their own view on the story.
5. Some formal expressions that I found in Dickens style of writing are as followed:
“My infant tounge” Page 1, paragraph 1, line 2
“My first fancies” Page 1 Paragraph 2 Line 5-6
“Pint out the place” Page 3 Paragraph 9 Line 1
“Who d’ye live with…” Page 4 Paragraph 8 Line 1
“Any person sumever” Page 5 Paragraph 3 Line 5
“Partickler” Page 5 Paragraph 3 Line 6
“…Church betwixt you” Page 9 Paragraph 9 Line 4
“in an apothecary kind of way” Page 10 Paragraph 1 Line 6
“larcenous researches” Page 10 Paragraph 2 Line