Mutual Friends

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is an exciting book that invites the readers to feel similar emotions to the characters you are experiencing as well as form opinions regarding each of the characters actions. The main character is a boy named Pip, who longs to become a blacksmith like his brother in-law Joe. Suddenly, he changes his mind, and wants to become a gentleman. His change of heart is due to a girl named Estella, the adopted daughter of a querulous, old woman named Miss…

on the life of one man named Pip, as of the time he was seven years old until he was in his mid-thirties. Pip shows us imperative actions in his life that formed who he became. While developing he acquires a collection of different connections and friends that influence him in his decisions and goals for his life. This is a novel of development ,therefore understanding Pip and his evolution is key in developing an understanding of this novel (Grogan,2014).One of the major themes in this novel…

The novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens revolves around the life of a young boy in Victorian era of England named Pip. When Pip is a young boy, he meets the rich and secluded Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham introduces Pip to her young adoptive daughter, named Estella. She raises Estella to not love, for she is intent on saving Estella from heartbreak. While she does this, she also trains her to break the hearts of others, much as her heart was broken by a man in her youth. She eventually…

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens tells the story of Pip, a common orphan boy who dreams of being a gentleman. The novel is set in Victorian England and follows Pip’s encounters with many colorful characters throughout his rise through the social classes. At the center of Pip’s story is the weather. Dickens uses it as a tool to share aspects of the story. Although he may use the weather just to explain the setting of the novel, Dickens actually utilizes it to foreshadow what will happen next…

Pip’s embarrassment and stubbornness almost lost him a friendship between him and his brother in-law Joe, who was his great friend before he lived in London: “I had been mistaken in my fancy that there was a simple dignity in him. The fashion of his dress could no more on its way than when he…

to connect with anyone. Most of my classes were composed of Asians-predominantly vietnamese; which up until then I did not associate much with. Through my childhood, majority of my friends were of my race and have gone to the same school as me. As a freshman, starting out in a school knowing anyone due to all my friends going to Santiago or La Quinta, I felt like an outcast. Everyone seem to know each other, as if they all meet each other before, even though they came from completely different…

by whatever means necessary. Whether it be music, art, literature, exploring, or just learning more about the world around us. For me personally there are three main sources that bring me happiness and just overall joy my family, work, and my best friend Caleb. When I was eighteen years old I had just returned from an internship for a research and development firm in Anaheim California. When I got back for some reason…

decipher between the useful types of friends you associate with and the piggybackers that do not genuinely care about you. In every clique of gossiping teenagers holds a general variety of friends. Although the individuals themselves are unique, the concept of their friendship is basic and is in every circle of friends. Surprisingly common kinds of friends are true-blue, moochers, episodic, and party girls. Every high school girl searches for that one true-blue friend. This species is rare.…

and as a result, my grades began to fall, I was making bad choices, and I had the mentality that I really didn’t care about anything. I began to turn away the people that cared the most about me, but a few months into my freshman year, the same friends that I thought cared about me, actually ended up spreading terrible rumors about me and bullied me for the remainder of the year. Even after the way that I had treated my mom, she comforted me with open arms and showed me nothing but unconditional…

As the dinner came to an end my friends and I all craved some ice cream, so we went to Cold Stone and even then he was still trying to help me up the stairs and holding my dress so it would not drag on the ground. After Cold Stone, and after everyone had gotten home, I received a text…