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The man was limping on towards this latter, as if he were the pirate come to life, and come down, and going back to hook himself up again. It gave me a terrible turn when I thought so; and as I saw the cattle lifting their heads to gaze after him, I wondered whether they thought so too. I looked all round for the horrible young man, and could see no signs of him. but, now I was frightened again, and ran home without stopping.
Critical Reading
This passage sets the tone for the first, dramatic scene of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, when the young boy Pip has his life-altering encounter with the convict Magwitch. Immediately, the reader learns that the boy, Pip lives in the country, because of the grazing cattle on the field and the overgrown nettles of the untended graveyard. The reader...
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A reader might wonder why a young boy is so focused on death and the past. There seems little else in the country where he lives but death and horror. The haunting of the present by the past is something that will feature even more prominently in the novel later
Transitions in Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" Chapter 49 in Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" is about transitions. Pip begins to meet his "great" expectation; and literally, Miss Havisham's past is burnt away. The passage in question is about Pip having left Miss Havisham in great spirits. She has agreed to give him nine hundred pounds for his business venture with Herbert. He walks around the grounds of Miss Havisham's manor like he
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