{"id":950,"date":"2018-08-27T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T11:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/?p=950"},"modified":"2018-09-05T10:07:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T10:07:31","slug":"great-expectations-chapter-1-2-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/2018\/08\/27\/great-expectations-chapter-1-2-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Expectations Chapter 1 & 2 notes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    When Great Expectations opens Pip is in the graveyard looking at his Mum and Dad\u2019s gravestone.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Dickens hooks his reader immediately by having Pip attacked by an escaped convict.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Pip is afraid that if he doesn\u2019t return with a file and food for the convict then he will be disembowelled by the convict\u2019s friend.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Mrs Joe calls the stick \u2018Tickler\u2019 because she used it to hurt people rather than actually make them laugh. It shows she has a twisted sense of humour.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    The story is told from Pip\u2019s point of view. He is reflecting on his own history. This was unusual at the time as the majority of novels were written in the present tense with a third person voice \u2013 not in first person, past tense.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Pip is technically Joe\u2019s brother-in-law, as Joe is married to Pip\u2019s big sister. Joe and Mrs Joe are raising Pip, although Joe is more like Pip\u2019s best friend.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    There is physical comedy in Pip getting tipped over the gravestone, even though this is threatening behaviour from the convict. It is also physically funny when Pip is chased around the kitchen and Joe acts as his protector from Mrs Joe.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    At the end of Chapter 2 Pip runs from the house to give the convict the stolen supplies on a very bleak morning. (dramatic epithet)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    When Great Expectations opens Pip is in the graveyard looking at his Mum and Dad\u2019s gravestone. Dickens hooks his reader immediately by having Pip attacked by an escaped convict. Pip is afraid that if he doesn\u2019t return with a file and food for the convict then he will be disembowelled by the convict\u2019s friend. Mrs … Continue reading Great Expectations Chapter 1 & 2 notes<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2785,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[95928,95924,3141],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher","tag-great-expectations","tag-higher","tag-prose"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2785"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}