Miss Havisham had paid Pip a premium of twenty-five guineas for going there. ... Magwitch is a convict who is in leg irons, cold, hungry, desperate, and has escaped from a prison ship. "A fearful man, all in coarse gray, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied around his head.""10 "Magwitch is a convict escaped from the prison ship.""12 He threatens Pip and forces him to steal food, and a file for his leg irons or he will kill him and eat his liver. ... Jaggers does but he embraces it selectively "or, in other words, he becomes ...

• Word Count: 2002
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Miss Havisham had paid Pip a premium of twenty-five guineas for going there. ... Magwitch is a convict who is in leg irons, cold, hungry, desperate, and has escaped from a prison ship. "A fearful man, all in coarse gray, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied around his head.""10 "Magwitch is a convict escaped from the prison ship.""12 He threatens Pip and forces him to steal food, and a file for his leg irons or he will kill him and eat his liver. ... Jaggers does but he embraces it selectively "or, in other words, he becomes ...

• Word Count: 2002
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Miss Havisham had paid Pip a premium of twenty-five guineas for going there. ... Magwitch is a convict who is in leg irons, cold, hungry, desperate, and has escaped from a prison ship. "A fearful man, all in coarse gray, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied around his head.""10 "Magwitch is a convict escaped from the prison ship.""12 He threatens Pip and forces him to steal food, and a file for his leg irons or he will kill him and eat his liver. ... Jaggers does but he embraces it selectively "or, in other words, he becomes ...

• Word Count: 2002
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Miss Havisham had paid Pip a premium of twenty-five guineas for going there. ... Magwitch is a convict who is in leg irons, cold, hungry, desperate, and has escaped from a prison ship. "A fearful man, all in coarse gray, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied around his head.""10 "Magwitch is a convict escaped from the prison ship.""12 He threatens Pip and forces him to steal food, and a file for his leg irons or he will kill him and eat his liver. ... Jaggers does but he embraces it selectively "or, in other words, he becomes ...

• Word Count: 2002
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Miss Havisham had paid Pip a premium of twenty-five guineas for going there. ... Magwitch is a convict who is in leg irons, cold, hungry, desperate, and has escaped from a prison ship. "A fearful man, all in coarse gray, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied around his head.""10 "Magwitch is a convict escaped from the prison ship.""12 He threatens Pip and forces him to steal food, and a file for his leg irons or he will kill him and eat his liver. ... Jaggers does but he embraces it selectively "or, in other words, he becomes ...

• Word Count: 2002
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• Grade Level: High School

He goes on to realise that the things and people he had grown to believe were inferior to him were in fact more than his equal. ... Dickens goes on to describe the marsh land where Pip lived and he describes an image of a lonely, bleak, wild area which is dark and gloomy. ... Pip is instantly terrified and is almost beside himself at the sight of this man who is - "A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg". ... The convict has escaped and is desperate for food and for something that can free him from the iron on his leg. ... The gibbet was an object with chains which...

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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the story he goes through many changes. ... One evening when Pip was visiting his Mother and Father's grave at the cemetery he was confronted by an escaped convict dressed in rags and with his legs chained. The convict grabbed Pip and ordered him to bring food and a file to release him from his leg irons. ... Several years go by in this way, until one night a familiar person shows up in Pip's room. ... Subsequently, Great Expectations has and will continue to go down as a classic novel written by a classic Author, Charles Dickens....

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Characteristics of characters in the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Pip: In the beginning, and almost throughout the novel the Pip is guilty conscious and ashamed. Shame is a feeling brought on by circumstances beyond the control of the person. For example, Pip feels ashamed over h...

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Suddenly a terrifying escaped convict, with shackles still on his leg, seizes him. ... As time goes by, Pip confides in Biddy his ambition to better himself, and his growing dislike of the simple lifestyle at the forge. ...

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Resolution: The conflict of Pip and Estella is resolved at the end when Pip sees Estella and they go away as friends. ... That his age was about sixty, strong on his legs, and that he was browned and hardened by exposure to weather" (Chapter 39, Page294) His criminal life hardened him on the outside, but he was really a caring, nurturing person on the inside. ... He was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-going, foolish, dear fellow- a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness" (Chapter 2, Page 6) Despite his appearance, Joe was a gentle person who cared about Pip a lot. ...

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When you think of Charles Dickens you immediately think of A Christmas Carol. However he was more than that, and actually lived a bad childhood. He overcame his past and ended up writing many great books. One of Charles Dickens" best friends after watching him work said, "It was interesting to watch...

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• Grade Level: High School