ip at the beginning of the book can be seen as a person who is very tired to his upbringing and home. He is an orphan, a dependent on his older sister who was brought up “by the hand.” In return, she is very strict on Pip and he in away is afraid of her. His sister is married to Joe Gargery, a simple blacksmith. The three of them live in a poor village near the marsh of Kent and are considered to be “lower class.” Due to their socioeconomic situation, Pip was never given the opportunity to be schooled. This lead to him being an apprentice to Joe, where he would lull away mindlessly as he slowly turned into another Joe Gargery the blacksmith.
Peer pressure can only be taken to account for the ambition of a person. If there is a group of friends, …show more content…
As “ghettos [can be seen] as communities that have experienced epidemics of social problems,” the social problems stem from a neighborhood’s tenants as “neighborhood quality decreases, [there are] sharp increases in the probability that an individual will develop a social problem.” (Crane,1). This multiplier effect causes for one influential force to have a ripple effect on the choices and pursuits of a person. If any entire neighborhood is polluted with bad seeds, it brings the good seeds down also. Applying this to the real world it can be seen that “there were sharp jumps in the dropout probabilities of [all black and white females and males] in the worst neighborhoods of the largest cities.” (Crane,1250). It is that when it comes to peer pressure, parents and guardians are no …show more content…
But Pip being the idealist that he is, believed “[Miss Havisham] reserved it for [him] to restore the desolate house, admit the sunshine into the dark rooms, set the clocks a going and the cold hearths a blazing, tear down the cobwebs, destroy the vermin—in short, do all the shining deeds of the young Knight of romance, and marry the Princess.” (Dickens). Miss Havisham, the lady of the house, makes Pip believe as if she was helping him, as if she was a force pushing him in the right direction. Now although Miss Havisham’s intention were not so, Pip believed that. This woman who he barely knew, to him, acted as an angel saving him from his former lowly self. Next when Estella is introduced, she plays as a larger influence, the final goal for Pip. He set to become a man adequate enough to marry Estella and he soon becomes aware that he can not do that by being a blacksmith’s
Peer pressure can only be taken to account for the ambition of a person. If there is a group of friends, …show more content…
As “ghettos [can be seen] as communities that have experienced epidemics of social problems,” the social problems stem from a neighborhood’s tenants as “neighborhood quality decreases, [there are] sharp increases in the probability that an individual will develop a social problem.” (Crane,1). This multiplier effect causes for one influential force to have a ripple effect on the choices and pursuits of a person. If any entire neighborhood is polluted with bad seeds, it brings the good seeds down also. Applying this to the real world it can be seen that “there were sharp jumps in the dropout probabilities of [all black and white females and males] in the worst neighborhoods of the largest cities.” (Crane,1250). It is that when it comes to peer pressure, parents and guardians are no …show more content…
But Pip being the idealist that he is, believed “[Miss Havisham] reserved it for [him] to restore the desolate house, admit the sunshine into the dark rooms, set the clocks a going and the cold hearths a blazing, tear down the cobwebs, destroy the vermin—in short, do all the shining deeds of the young Knight of romance, and marry the Princess.” (Dickens). Miss Havisham, the lady of the house, makes Pip believe as if she was helping him, as if she was a force pushing him in the right direction. Now although Miss Havisham’s intention were not so, Pip believed that. This woman who he barely knew, to him, acted as an angel saving him from his former lowly self. Next when Estella is introduced, she plays as a larger influence, the final goal for Pip. He set to become a man adequate enough to marry Estella and he soon becomes aware that he can not do that by being a blacksmith’s