Shaping Ourselves
Experiences within our lives can either have a negative effect or a positive effect on our opinion of the world and ourself. They can help forge us into a stronger person with confidence and who takes the world by the head ,or these experiences can have the reverse effect. They can tear us down, and make us hate the person reflected in the mirror. In the passage from the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Pip, a young orphan boy, begins to understand how certain experiences within our lives shape how we view the world and our place within it.
In the selected passage, young Pip has just returned from the home of Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter Estella. Both share a common personality trait of a sense of superiority
Experiences within our lives can either have a negative effect or a positive effect on our opinion of the world and ourself. They can help forge us into a stronger person with confidence and who takes the world by the head ,or these experiences can have the reverse effect. They can tear us down, and make us hate the person reflected in the mirror. In the passage from the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Pip, a young orphan boy, begins to understand how certain experiences within our lives shape how we view the world and our place within it.
In the selected passage, young Pip has just returned from the home of Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter Estella. Both share a common personality trait of a sense of superiority