Our Mutual Friend

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…

abilities in publick places. 3. An artful tricking practitioner in physick. (313) In other words, quack is corrupt and dishonest fraud, which is often found in the Victorian health care field. Charles Dickens portrays quack medicine in his novel Our Mutual Friend (1865) through the Veneerings, an “Analytical Chemist”, Mr. Wilfer, and Twemlow. The Veneerings are drug lords who make their fortune selling quack remedies that they claim will cure miscellaneous afflictions.…

date, it seems to lay the groundwork for the future relationship, if there is one. Now, each person may have a different experience when he or she goes on a first date. The majority of first dates may end differently, with the two people being mutual friends, being love at first sight, or being the worst of all. Some dates…

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…

hollowgast to the location of the peculiars. Once Jacob found out about the truth of Dr. Golan, he felt betrayed that he was also used for someone else’s purpose. Jacob learned that there are some people that can’t be trusted. In the quote, Jacob’s friends are in a situation where they aren’t unable to help themselves. They can’t help themselves with someone that is a higher level than they are. Even though they hold powers, they are no match for a wight. They trust Jacob to make the right…