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    group of personalities and different types of people. Teens can completely forget who they actually are or who they are striving to be and begin to conform with societies hate. By completing the secret benefactor experiment‚ based off the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens’‚ we will try and replace the hate with love and generosity.

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    compassionate character and past experiences‚ he is able to process difficult situations and empathize with the needy‚ suggesting that his compassion makes him take something negative and always manage to shine a little positive light on it.In the novel great expectations by Charles Dickens‚  Joe’s compassion makes him able to have a positive

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    revenge but holds his temper. "When they hurled their insults at him‚ he did not retaliate; when he suffered‚ he made no threats. Instead‚ he entrusted himself to him who judges justly."� (1Peter 2:23) Charles Dickens teaches us in his novel‚ Great Expectations‚ that people who seek revenge on others often end up hurting themselves as well. One person who finds herself getting hurt after she takes vengeance on others is Miss Havisham. After being left at the altar by a man named Compeyson‚ she vows

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    Chapter 1-10 Summary"¦ Chapter 1 In chapter one Pip is introduced along with other characters such as the Gargery’s and convict. It starts out with Pip in the church yard visiting his parents grave when an escaped convict captured Pip and had him steal "wittles"(food) and a file from him family. In the last scene Pip is running home so as not to be late for dinner‚ Chapter 2 In chapter two it explains Mrs.Joe Gargery and her husband and how she brought Pip up by hand. She whipped Pip with "the tickler"

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    Settings: KENT: Pip’s hometown of Kent is where the book opens up‚ it “was a marsh country‚ down by the river‚ within‚ as the river wound‚ tweny miles of the sea” (pg 1). Within the town‚ around the churchyards criminals are always presently lurking about and because the town is so near the ocean‚ the mists hung around and not only gave a visual of the murkiness of the area‚ but also represented the ominous atmosphere. LONDON: London is broken‚ every single place described in London‚ including

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    The text Great Expectations by Charles Dickens reflects many of the values and attitudes of nineteenth century England. The terms ’values’ and ’attitude’ are somewhat linked‚ and are both an integral part of the context of this novel. There was a great divide between the classes at the time of Great Expectations‚ with each class having its own stereotypical views. This difference led to crime in the city‚ which served the need for better punishment‚ as the justice system was quite arbitrary. Attitudes

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    Great Expectations: Injustices and Poor Conditions Committed On Women and Children Great Expectations‚ authored by Victorian novelist Charles Dickens‚ is considered one of his finest works of literature. It was indicative of Dickens’s strong feelings for injustices and poor conditions committed on women and children of that time. Through the main character‚ Pip‚ Dickens’s demonstrated the compassion he felt for children. Most readers‚ like myself‚ are able to associate Pip’s experiences with

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    Great Expectations Essay Essay Task: Read Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and write an essay in which you describe the conflicts faced by Pip and the author’s attitude toward English society. Hailed by many as his greatest novel‚ Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations is a self-narrated story which tells the life of an orphan named Pip‚ raised by his abusive sister‚ who leaves behind a childhood of misery and poverty to embark on a journey to become a gentleman after an unnamed benefactor

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    Expectations. Having expectations could change one’s life. One can induce change within themselves or it can be influenced by others. This concept is noticeable with Pip‚ the main character in the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Pip is an orphan boy who lives in Kent‚ England with his abusive sister‚ Mrs. Joe‚ and his sympathetic uncle‚ Joe Gargery. He searches for value as a person in becoming a gentleman and in earning the love of Estella‚ an orphan adopted by Miss Havisham‚ a wealthy

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    Compare and contrast the presentation of Pip‚ Magwitch‚ Miss Havisham and Estella in the opening chapter of Great Expectation Compare and contrast the presentation of Pip‚ Magwitch‚ Miss Havisham and Estella in the opening chapters of ‘Great Expectations’. Explain which characters you feel sympathy for and why? ‘Great Expectations’ written by Charles Dickens is a classic Victorian novel and is often regarded as the author’s finest achievement. However it was originally written as

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