Great Expectations by Charles Dickens :: Great Expectations Essays

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Chapters 1-3 give you a feeling of welcoming. The first three chapters arent just funny but in some places they are edgy. The humour makes it enjoyable to read and the apprehensive situations make you want to read on to see what happens. Right from the reservoir Dickens has aroused the readers interest. The story is told in First Person Retrospective Narrative. This enables Dickens in the early chapters to re-create the childs eye view whilst fusing it with adult judgements. ================================================================== immediately we know that it is wrote in First Person Retrospective Narrative because of the use of the pro-noun I. The main character Pip is introduced straight away and we find start his situation. Pip introduces himself and tells you a brief background on himself. He explains where he got his name from and that his sister has been a mother type figure to him as altogether his brothers and parents are deceased. ====================================================================== MY FATHERS family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more unadorned than Pip --I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and have never taken them out in this state of existence. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pip laughs at his own childish inexperience as he pictures his parent appearance just from the tombstones. By the third paragraph he has already established the setting - marshland (Desolate Area). He tells us what time it begins at - Twilight. (Anxiety already created). On a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. We already suspect something to take place. The convict enters suddenly and Pip is startled. Quick exchanges b etween the characters gives a tense feeling. The convict steals Pips bread and scoffs it as if he hasnt had anything to eat for some time. Chapter 2 opens with Pips naivety setting in again as he describes