Great Expectations for 9H

Please read through chapter 14 for homework this weekend.

Answer these questions for homework:
1. At this point in the novel, with which character do you most identify? Why? Do you have something in common with the character? Have you shared similar thoughts or reactions?
2. Why is Pip sent to the home of Miss Havisham? How does Pip feel after he leaves, and
why does he decide to lie about his experiences there?
3. If you could sample a life completely different from your own, what kind of life would you choose? Why? In what way is this life different from your own. Why does it interest you?

Notes:

Satire is literature that uses humor or sarcasm to ridicule human vices or follies. Dickens was interested in social reform, and passages of the novel often reflect his feelings toward people and institutions in nineteenth-century English society. Dickens’s satire emerges in his colorful descriptions of characters,places, and events.

In his fiction, Dickens combines humor, sentimentality, and elements of the grotesque—a type of literature in which characters’ outstanding physical or personality traits are exaggerated for comic or dramatic effect.

Vocabulary:
capricious adj. unpredictable; inconsistent
conciliatory adj. intended to restore harmony or goodwill
felicitous adj. happy
imprecations n. curses
penitent n. person who repents sin under the direction of a religious confessor
perspicuity n. clearness
remonstrance n. criticism
trifle n. small amount
clemency n. mercy; forgiveness
disconcerted adj. confused
latent adj. hidden; undeveloped
malignant adj. evil; bitter

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