In the first chapter Pip is seven years old and the style of this chapter is very much written as from the viewpoint of a small child and how things appeared to him at that age. ... Dickens has built up an image in this first chapter of the boy Pip and his background. ... It is at this point in the first chapter that the convict Magwitch is introduced. ... Pip agrees to get the things and to come back the next day to give them to the convict. ... The first chapter is quite significant as it establishes the themes of the novel. ...

• Word Count: 1797
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

It is a chapter in which Paddy and his friends are in a gang. ... In the chapter The Family Outing' he knows something ahs happened when his mum gets out of the car away from their father in the pouring rain. ... However although it seems to be genuine friendship, Paddy also gives the impression that he is trying to impress them. In chapter two paddy and his friends try to put fuel into his little brothers mouth, so they can light it, Kevin pressed the fuel against his mouth but it wouldn't go in. ... In one chapter Davy is describing the first things he can remember as a child. ...

• Word Count: 2123
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In the first chapter of Oliver Twist, Dickens moves from comedy to pathos and from pathos to satire. ... Such rapid switches help in all the later novels to hold together disparate effects, to provide variety and unity, and to give that double opportunity for comedy and pathos that Dickens admired in stage melodrama (Scott-Kilvert, 47). In this first chapter, Dickens also captures life and death in a single sentence, "Let me see the child, and die." ... Dickens comes close to endangering Oliver's idealized virtue, though; in the great temptation scene in Chapter 18 (Scott-Kilvert, 49). .....

• Word Count: 1649
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Possibly the fact that Dickens does not give the signalman a name shows that he is deemed unimportant to most people. ... Dickens' writing flows throughout the story, whereas Hardy chooses to use headed chapters. ... In 'The Withered Arm' it is clear that the plot is spread out through a number of years and often in-between chapters a large amount of time has passed. This is shown at the beginning of chapter 6 as it reads, "Half a dozen years passed away - This allows Hardy to create a more elaborate story line and use several characters. ... Although this is very realistic, thi...

• Word Count: 2219
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

A chapter, where this process is described is named "Murdering the Innocents" which refers to replacing the rich personalities of children with cold and impersonal utilitarian attitudes. ... As soon as Gradgrind's children were old enough to absorb, he was feeding giving more lessons than they could hold. ...

• Word Count: 1343
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School