A trait that Ponyboy seems to be trying his hardest to retain is the basic feeling of empathy. Ponyboy is harassed by the Socs and is underprivileged compared to them, nevertheless, he doesn’t hate them. A Soc that he has befriended, Sherri Valance, acted as a window to the life of a Soc for Ponyboy. Ponyboy shows an understanding of the fact that both sides have their own problems and accordingly both sides’ problems are just as real as the others. Ponyboy expresses this well in the essay I mentioned previously.…
Pip’s prideful ways blind him of the generosity of others, causing him to be ungrateful and experience despair.…
All throughout The Outsiders Ponyboy learns new ways of living and is put into situations that he is not used to. Although Ponyboy struggles to deal with his major problems in life he learns how to handle them and matures in the book. Ponyboy changes mentally, physically, and emotionally. By the end of The Outsiders Ponyboy experienced many new events that made him look at life much differently. First Ponyboy changes mentally during the plot of The Outsiders.…
He finds out that she thinks he is not for her because he is poor and uneducated and that is where he starts on his journey to become a gentleman and try to become rich to impress Estella, but what he doesn’t realize is he is hurting the people around him and starts to feel embarrassed by his family and even Joe. Pip starts to fade away from Joe and not be grateful for his love and eventually leaves to fulfil his dream of becoming a…
She's never tried to lead Pip on, but she's been cold and haughty all of her life. She just doesn't care enough to lie. “Do you want me then," said Estella, turning suddenly with a fixed and serious, if not angry, look, "to deceive and entrap you?" (page 393). She has made her point, without lying to anyone.…
Every parent wishes the best for the child they raise, and unfortunately, many parents inadvertently raise an inconsiderate kid without moral values. In the book, Great Expectations, written by Charles Dickens, the character Pip is mainly raised by kind and warm-hearted Joe, who exemplifies and tries to impart his moral values into Pip. He opts to create a friendship with Pip rather than a father-son relationship, and Joe watches as his friend descends into a web of misery. While Joe did his best to nurture Pip into a hard working and righteous person, his consistent pampering and inability to act as a father figure indirectly contributed to Pip’s transformation into an arrogant man because Pip was ill-equipped to handle adulthood.…
Pip feels he had gotten what he need from Miss Havisham all the answer to Estella and the money for Herbert. But the book shows that Pip has a heart even if Miss Havisham did and made Estella not have a heart. Pip went back in the house to save Miss Havisham from the fire. Finally, I personally feel that this incident reinforced the novel’s theme that bad behavior can be redeemed by remorse and sympathy. Also no matter how cruel someone can be to a person, they will still be nice to you.…
When he visits there, Miss Havisham is exceedingly cold and disrespectful to him, and she even encourages Estella to be snotty towards him. Estella criticizes Pips every move and makes fun of him. This goes to show that even though Estella is being well educated, her mannerism is contradicting herself because she is being raised by Miss Havisham’s sadistic ways. Her social class changes how she sees the world in a way that Pip could never think to understand, until his benefactor bestows him with wealth. In those years when he gains economic power, he changes immensely.…
In their fleeting encounter, Pip is aware that Estella presumes that the child is his, and allows her to believe that. Pip reaches a higher level of maturity due to this, as he now understands that his previous feelings for Estella have never been those of love, but of infatuation. He becomes aware that he does not love her, nor ever has, and is able to let her go and not allow his encounter and memories of her to captivate him. Miss Havisham's revelation to Pip about Estella causes him to understand the person she is, and results in him releasing Estella from his…
As Pip got to know people of hierarchy, he started to disown his upbringing and he slowly began to embrace his status and wealth. Pip’s arrogance and ego led him to forget his past, his cherished relationships. Therefore, social division and economic difference created a distance in their relationship, causing the reader to reflect on the negative effects of wealth causing one to abandon their relationship. Similarly, Pip’s attitude changed around Biddy, just like Joe had experienced.…
In the classic ending, Pip is never able to be with Estella, because she doesn't believe she can love anyone. However, after being mistreated by Drummel and leading a solitary and torturous life, Estella meets Pip again, this time, as a changed person. " ' But you said to me,... God bless you, God forgive you!...…
Revenge, every teenager seems to get caught up in an act of revenge at some point through high school. Drama causes’ all sorts of fights with friends and relationships. Many of us are insecure and haven’t matured yet and we choose to do something revengeful towards someone we dislike. Throughout the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens we notice several acts of Revenge coming from Miss Havisham. Her actions are not directly acted towards Compeyson, but directly acted towards others that didn't do anything wrong.…
Pip became obsessed with wealth, social status, and possession. Pip was transforming into a materialistic young man because of the exposure he had to the higher class when he began to visit the Satis house, the home of Miss Havisham, and Pip’s love, Estella. External influences such as…
He is addicted to her lying and beauty; what’s more, he becomes jealous of a rich township gentleman who is obscene and dirty and has a close contact with Estella and he begins his communicative activity. In short, Pip’s character has a dramatic change and he doesn’t keep pure and kind, which is replaced by pride and conceit. These unprecedented changes make Pip live happily and his concept of life is not to save any more. What’s more, he is extravagant and wastes suspicious money. In his opinion, there is nothing more important than money and even Joy, not to mention others.…
The mood I’m getting based on the dialogue is bittersweet. This conversation sounds sad, almost as if it is a last goodbye between two friends. This adds a great deal to the plot of the story because this shows a clear sign of infatuation towards Estella. Chances are, Pip won’t ever stop loving her until she loves him back. FORESHADOWING:…