Chapters 1 and 2 of Great Expectations

In the first 2 chapters of the book, Great Expectations, the author, Charles Dickens, sets the scene of a boy, named Pip, who lives with his sister and her husband. Pip gets into trouble, but stays true to the promise he makes, setting the book up to tell the mischievous, eerie adventure that Pip is about to go through. Whilst Dickens is setting up the story he uses similes, imagery, analogies and tone to give the story more meaning. One way he does this is when he is describing the man who was talking to pip. The text states, “A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin.” This sets the eerie tone from earlier. We are expected to be scared and on the edge for Pip because this man has a scary presense to him.

Next, Dickens uses similes to express the sacredness and seriousness of the situation that Pip is in. The text states,”At the same time, he hugged his shuddering body in both his arms – clasping himself, as if to hold himself together – and limped towards the low church wall. ” This gives  a better idea of what kind of man this was. It makes you think about why he wants these things and what he is going to do with them. What do you think the purpose of these things is, and do you think that he is going to continue to blackmail Pip? Why?

To continue, in chapter 2, Dickens uses analogies. For example, “…had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap.” Gives us an amazing description of how Pips sister looks giving us, untimely, a better image of what she looks like, especially when she’s mad. Lastly, Dickens uses imagery to complete his first release of the book. The text states, “If I slept at all that night, it was only to imagine myself drifting down the river on a strong spring-tide, to the Hulks; a ghostly pirate calling out to me through a speaking-trumpet, as I passed the gibbet-station, that I had better come ashore and be hanged there at once, and not put it off.” This shows us not only an amazing image in our minds, but that Pip has such a vivid imagination and some potential to show an amazing life ahead. Overall, Dickens did an amazing job with the first releasement  of this story, and I am excited to see what adventures Pip gets to experience next.

 

 

 

 

Interesting Post

You know what scares me? Spiders. Spiders are the most gross and disgusting things on the earth. You know what’s even weirder? There’s more spiders than humans on the earth. And to add-on, we let creatures with 8 eyes and 8 legs, build their homes in our house where they catch and eat other creatures all while they lay eggs to hatch more spiders in your house. Yea…that’s the most comforting thing I’ve ever heard too. So you would think that everybody would share the same hatred and sacredness that you do. But to your surprise almost nobody does.

 So this Sunday afternoon, instead of being a good student and doing my blog then, my family went to water world. My brothers and sisters and I went on lots of water slides and were having a lot of fun. Well, as we were waiting in line for what (to me) is arguably the best slide there, there was a problem. So the line for the revolution goes up a few stories, if I had to guess I say somewhere between 5 and 7 stories.we were hanging on the railing waiting to go one the ride at around the 4th story mark (give or take) when something awful happens. As we were watching the people on the ride next to us go, I looked down and what do I see? A spider. And 8 legged 8 eyed spider looking straight up at me. Of course, I scream and start freaking out while my siblings look at it and go “awe it’s so small and cute”. Which by the way it wasnt.  So I just tried to move on and forget what happened.

Later, as we were up higher, almost to the front of the line, we were again leaning over the railings trying to keep ourselves occupied. Then, my sister screams and started freaking out, so of course I start freaking out because I think she sees a spider. So while I’m freaking out I was screaming and pushed my brother, who was hanging over the railing at the time. Within the next second, I realized it was a bee and became much calmer.I look over at my brother who is giving me the death glare, because if he wasn’t holding on to the railing, I would’ve pushed him off the 5 to 7 floor stairs to his death. He looked at me and calmly, with his rubber ducky swimsuit on, and said “how about we don’t push people over the edge”. And that my friends is how I almost killed my brother at water world. Which adds up to a grand total of 2 people that I have almost killed at water world.

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