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Thank you for being apart of this wonderfull experience in my student teaching internship. All of you really took to this blog with great effort. Advice from me to you: Where every you go, What ever you do, and What ever goal you set for yourself do so with all of your heart and nothing less. Good luck to all of you. Happy Hoildays!
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-a video of you talking about the book (No less than 2mins no more than 5mins)
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-write a poem ( must be 2 or more stanza's)
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-compare characters from Great Expectaions and other text.(must be at least one paragraph)
NOTE: Doing more than one extra credit option per assignment will recieve more than 100%.
Austin Harmel, Ryan Whitfield, Jessie Tankersley (LAMEO :P) Period:7
ReplyDelete"The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line not nearly so broad yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed."
This quotation depicts Dicken's style of repitition and his different yet accurate way of describing scenes and surroundings in his work.
"I thought it had the most dismal trees in it, and the most dismal sparrows, and the most dismal cats, and the most dismal houses (in number half a dozen or so), that I had ever seen."
This quotation depicts Dicken's style of repetition as well as his different way of description and his motif of sadness.
Mike Drinkwater, 2nd period
ReplyDelete"Mr. Jagger's room was lighted by a skylight only, and was a most dismal place; the skylight, eccentrically patched like a broken head, and the distorted adjoining houses looking as if they had twisted themselves to peep down at me through it. There were not so many papers about as i should have expected to see; and there were some odd objects about that i should not have expected to see-such as an old rusty pistol, a sword in a scabbard, several strange-looking boxes and packages, and two dreadful casts on a shelf, of faces peculiarly swollen, and twitchy about the nose."
Charles Dickens uses houses and buildings to represent the people who inhabit them. Mr. Jaggers is a dismal and gloomy person and his office is dismal and gloomy. i'm not gonna lie, i found this on the internet but it is very true in alot of his books.
Isabel Babb & Ansley Hunter.
ReplyDeletePeriod 7 ;)
" 'Only his game (you liked your bit of game, didn't you?)' " Page 212
"('Let ger alone,' said Joe.)" Page 120
Both of these qoutes represent Dickens style of using parentheses to add extra information both in qoutes and in writing. Dickens writing is more descriptive because of what the parenthses add to the story. Yet, it seems strange how he uses them when other people are speaking, such as in the first qoute. And he seems to put parts that seem to be important in parentheses. It's just his way of writing though.
Martha Weber 3rd Period
ReplyDelete"My hown cuthen'th gone to Mither Wemmick at thith prethent minute, to hoffer him hany termth." pg 192
"But we didn't find that it come up to its likeness in red bills at the shop doors; which I meantersay," added Joe, in an explantaory manner, " as it is there drawd too architectooralooral." pg 244
These two quotes display Dickens' style of utilizing dialects in his writing. It is common for Dickens to change the spelling of a word to evoke how a character says that word. For example, the spelling of architectural as architectooralooral in the second quote and the spelling of terms as termth in the first quote. Moreover, Dickens uses dialects to convey characterization. Both of the above quotes make the characters who say them appear slightly rough around the edges. The first speaker's dialect makes him appear younger, needier, and desperate. In contrast, Joe's quote makes him seem unlike a gentleman and indicates his upbringing while still making him sound like a regular, "average" adult.
RJ Brown
ReplyDelete7th period
I was afraid to sleep, even if I had been inclined, for I knew that at the first faint dawn of morning I must rob the pantry.
Every board upon the way, and every crack in every board, called after me, "stop thief!" and "Get up Mrs. Joe!"
These two sentences really show how Dickens plays off of the characters emotions and and uses imagery and sound to really paint a picture. He goes into great detail about every sound and ever bead of sweat that the character may show to make us feel like we are there. These descriptions make the reader become really into the book, just waiting to see what may happen next. In these two in particular, Charles Dickens shows how nervous Pip is and how the guilt he feels inside just keeps chasing after him like a hungry dog. He knows that he should not do this but he feels he must.
Jaclyn Pescitelli, 1st period
ReplyDelete"I know what you are a-going to say Pip; stay a bit! I don't deny that your sister comes the Mo-gul over us, now and again. I dont deny that she do throw us back-falls, and that she do drop down upon us heavy..." Joe chapter 7
"Dear me! It's quite a story, and shall be saved till dinner-time. And now let me take the liberty of asking you a question." Herbert chapter 22
These two quotes show Dickens use of dialogue to tell about characters intelligence and social classing. Like most of his novels there are contrasting characters like gentelmen and common men. In Joe's quote he doesnt sound very intelligent, using incorrect grammar, or formal. On the other hand, in Herbert's quote he sounds more sophisticated when he says word like shall.
Meredith Bradley 2nd period.
ReplyDelete“Joe, how are you, Joe?” [says Pip]
“Pip, how air you, Pip?” [says Joe]
I think the types of words that Charles Dickens uses to help develop the characters is a main part of his style. You can tell that Joe doesn’t have as nice manners than Pip by the way he talks. He uses improper grammar and words, just like Pip did before he went to “gentleman training.” The words that Dickens has the characters speak sets the mood and gives the characters distinctive personalities. Another thing that Dickens used to set the mood is the settings and scenes. Where the characters live and visit has meaning to it and has a big role in the book(s) that he wrote.
Carleigh B, Moya T, Kathryn M, 1st
ReplyDelete*Please be forewarned that these are some of the group's opinions and can be highly critical*
When we think of Dickens' style these points come to mind:
- He adds his own opinion to the story, some in parenthesis and others taking up a whole page
- Plays around with names and meanings
- Everything has alternative meanings
- some random parts (possibly because he didn't write the book all at once)
- has foil characters
- pays attention to the common man
- repeats some words and phrases
- main characters have issues (ex: Pip is ignorant)
- lengthy and uninteresting to some members of the group
- wordiness
- Once you are done the book, you realize it was interesting and enjoyable
The sentences we chose were:
"Drummle didn't say much, but in his limited way (he struck me as a sulky kind of fellow) he spoke as one of the elect, and recognized Mrs. Pocket as a woman and a sister."
"Startop, being a lively bright young fellow, and Drummle being the exact opposite, the latter was always disposed to direct him as a personal affront."
These two sentences help to represent Dickens' use of foil characters. They appear in all of his books, like Darnay and Carton, Scrooge and Cratchet. Startop is a happy and lively man, man while Drummle is mean and depressed. Dickens' foil characters add to the story line and really bring out each other's personality traits.
Please note: Under this line contains the uncensored and unedited version of the response. It may not be appropriate for Dickens fans.
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"I entertain a conviction, based upon large experience, that if in the days of my prosperity I had gone to the North Pole, I should have met somebody there, wandering eskimos or civilized man, who would have told me that Pumblechook was my earliest patron and the founder of my fortune."
This extremely long sentence represents Dickens' wordiness and randomness. He all of a sudden starts talking about the North Pole. This one has some purpose to it, but it is said in such a way that it is confusing and hard to understand. His way of stating the point of his work is consumingly long and hard to bear. He goes on forever and parts of it are out of the blue. His similes can be so strange and out of nowhere that the reader is confudled.
Mitchell Johnson
ReplyDeleteperiod 7
"Will you do me the favour to begin at once to call me by my christian name, Herbert?" 188
"I informed him in exchange that my christian name was Phillip"
Dickens does not capitalize christian to emphasize that religion does not play a major role in this story. People may try to look into the story and draw conclusions about religion that he did not want to make, so he didnt capitalize the word even though it should be. This would be part of the style Dickens writes in .
Sidd Meka, Shiv Patel, Anthony Choo, Michael Field. 2nd Period-
ReplyDelete"This collation dispose of at a moderate price(considering the grease: which was not charged for), we went back to Barnard's Inn and got my little portmanteau and then took coach for Hammersmith." "You were a gentle manly cove, though'(Mr. Wemmick was again apostrophizing), and you said you could write Greek."
Dickens' use of parentheses shows the character's thoughts and emotions in a sarcastic way. Likewise, it also shows that Dickens represents his own opinions through these parentheses. Also, Dickens applies his way of parentheses in a different style than other authors.
Hobbie McCain, Tommy Templeman 7th Period
ReplyDelete'Pray come in,' said Mr. Pocket, Junior.' Allow me to lead the way. I am rather bare here , but i hope you'll be able to make out tollerably till monday....
- Herbert Pocket.
This portion of herberts dialogue gives a lot of different side of Herbert. Dickens writing style shows that Herbert is and has been raised in wealth. He talks like a proper Gentle man and does not do anything impolite. The style shows clase system and sofistication without obviously stating either.
'If you can cough any trifle on it up, Pip, I'd recommend you to do it,' said Joe, all aghast. 'Manners is manners, but still your elth's your elth.' - Joe
In Joe's statement here it shows that he is of a lower clase system. his usage of elth instead of elth and his saying in the beginning show that he is a commoner and did not have as good an education as most do.
Claire Sammons & Bindi Patel 3rd Period
ReplyDelete"She had a serpentine way of coming close at me when she pretended to be vitally interested in the friends and localities I had left, which was altogether snaky and fork-tounged..." (when referring to Mrs. Coiler)
"Then he and my sister would pair off in such nonsensical about Miss Havisham, and about what she would do with me and for me, that I used to want-- quite painfully-- to burst into spiteful tears, fly at Pumblechook, and pummel him all over."
Both these sentences show how Dickens cleverly named the characters to fit thier personality. Mrs. Coiler seemed to have a snake-like personality in which she would "coil" herself and when interested she would come at Pip in a swift motion much like a cobra. When Pip describes how he feels toward Pumblechook, you can also picture Pip pummeling a short portly man. Also Dickens, cleverly used pauses to intensify emotion like in " I used to want-- quite painfully-- to burst into spiteful tears". One cannot deny, Dicken's style of writing was truly genius.
Drew Hutchinson and Trevor Thorburn 7th period
ReplyDeleteDrew and I found a couple of quotes that show dickens' style
"This is wery liberal on your part, Pip. and it is as such received and grateful welcome, though never looked for, far nor near nor nowheres. (Joe's conversation to pip)
"I derived from this speech that herbert hoover still confounded his intention with execution. But I made a modest reply, and we shook hands warmly" (Pip.. After he has become rich)
The dialect of these two characters is a direct indicator of their social class and education. Joe is very poor and uneducated and one can see it in how he talks. Pip (after he gets money) interacts with more "proper" people and talks in a very fancy manner. Dickens does this in a lot in his stories to tell the reader of a person's intelligence and social status.
Ahmad Rathor, 3rd Period
ReplyDeleteExtra Credit:
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The picture posted in the link above is a picture of a Yin-yang symbol. The symbol symbolizes opposites, like death and life, darkness and light, male vs female, etc. This relates to Great Expectations because it also contains "polar" opposites. Biddy and Estella are great examples of this. Biddy is caring, nice, and not so attractive while Estella is mean and is attractive. Additionally, Mrs. Joe and Joe also seem as opposites in the story. Joe is one of the only adults in the story that Pip likes while Mrs. Joe is seen as unfriendly by Pip. Also, Mr. Jaggers is not befriended with Pip while Mr. Wemmick is to some extent. Their personalities also are opposite. Opposites are even found in the setting. Pip used to live in a quiet town that has little to no opportunity while London provides him with the resources to be a gentleman.
Alex Adams period 3
ReplyDelete"Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day." ( last 2 sentences before chapter 10)
These two sentences really show Dickens style of writing. Dickens teaches some really important lessons throughout his stories. For example, this quote is saying that you pick how you want to live in life. You can either live a happy life full of roses and gold, or a disappointing life full of thorns and iron.
Alex Adams period 3
ReplyDeletehttp://www.links2love.com/lyrics_7_things_miley_cyrus.htm
The song 7 Things by Miley Cyrus is like Pip and Estella's friendship.
"The 7 things I hate about you
You're vain, your games, you're insecure
You love me, you like her
You make me laugh, you make me cry
I don't know which side to buy
Your friends they're jerks
And when you act like them, just know it hurts
I wanna be with the one I know
And 7th thing I hate the most that you do
You make me love you."
These lyrics describe that Pip does like many things about Estella, but he still really likes her. Estella's friends are jerks and they make Pip feel really bad about his lack of money. Pip is hurt when Estella thinks less of him because he is not upper class.She makes him love her!
Brittany Tan, Per. 1
ReplyDelete"The felicitous idea occurred to me a morning or two later when I woke that the best step I could take towards making myself uncommon was to get out of Biddy everything she knew." (Chapter 10)
This statement is a paradox, an ironic statement which contradicts itself. In this case, Biddy is quite common, but Pip wants to get everything she knows to be uncommon. This is an example of Dickens' use of irony.
Another example is the way Estella kissed Pip after his fight with Herbert. She constantly insulted and degraded Pip by calling him common. Then, she kisses him.
In addition, it seems as if Joe is a child with the way he is described. Joe is supposed to be a father, since he is married to Pip's guardian, but Joe seems more like a brother. The best of friends they are, like a brother-brother relationship, rather than a father-son relationship.
Abigrace Diprima, Period 3
ReplyDelete"Biddy was never insulting, or capricious, or Biddy today and somebody else tomorrow; she would have derived only pain, and no please, from giving me pain; she would far rather have wounded her own breast than mine."
-p. 138, Ch. 17 (Pip speaking about Biddy)
"I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry-- I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart-- God knows what the name was-- that tears strated to my eyes. The moment that they sprang there, the girl looked at me with a quick delight in having been the cause of them. This gave me power to keep them back and look at her: so, she gave me a contemptuous toss, but with a sense, I thought, of having made too sure that I was wounded-- and left me."
-p. 65, Chapter 8 (Pip speaking about Estella at his first visit to Miss Havisham's)
These quotes represent Dickens' use of FOIL CHARACTERS in his style of writing.
*Pip's struggles and feelings about love between the contrasting characters of Estella and Biddy further elaborate the struggles of his life.
Biddy is gentle, polite, wise, and loving. She is in a lower class of society, just like Pip. She cares about Pip; despite Biddy's opinion that Estella is not worth Pip's efforts, she is understanding and tolerant of his love for Estella, not her. She only wants the best for Pip.
Estella is rude, cold, cruel, and manipulative. She is in the world of high class society. Estella tantalizes and manipulates Pip with her beauty. She constantly hurts Pip, keeping an insensitive wall between them.
Pip's lo
Abigrace Diprima, Period 3
ReplyDelete**Add-on to "Dickens Style" post**
...I forgot to erase "Pip's lo" from the bottom of my post. I had started to write something, but did not. Just letting you know that the post above is not incomplete-- I am finished with it... sorry!
Eliza Ali 1st Period
ReplyDelete"Casting my eyes on Mr. Wemmick as we went along, to see what he was like in the light of day, I found him to be a dry man, rather short in stature, with a square wooden face, whose expression seemed to have been imperfectly chipped out with a dull- edged chisel."
"I whistled and made nothing of going. But the village was very peaceful and quiet and the light mists were solemnly rising, as if to show me the world, and I had been so innocent and little there, and all beyond was so unknown and great, that in a moment with a strong heave and sob I broke into tears.”
These quotes from the book show how Charles Dickens almost always writes in first person. When he writes in first person, the reader can relate to the main character more and see the world as the character sees it. This part of his writing style also allows the reader to be able to picture everything better. The imagery is amazing and effective.
Hayley Doyle 2nd Period
ReplyDelete"...And he hammered at me with a wigour only to be equalled by the wigour with which he didn't hammer at his anwil." - Joe Gargery
"I want to know no more than I know. As to result, it's a toss-up. I told you from the first it was a toss-up. Have you paid Wemmick?" - Mr. Jaggers
I believe these two quotes represent Dickens' style in the sense that he uses dialect and dialogues in general to help tell the story. For instance, by just reading the first quote said by Joe, the reader can infer that Joe is an uneducated man, who hasn't quite perfected his grammer and pronunciations. Dickens also uses this technique in "A Tale of Two Cities" with the messenger Jerry Cruncher. In addition to this, the second quote tells the reader that Mr. Jaggers is a business man, because he seems to be very focused and serious. All of this the reader can infer just from the dialogue. As you can see, Dickens certainly possesses the talent of manipulating the simple dialogue between characters into his own style of telling the story.
nIcK nA fIrSt PeRiOd
ReplyDeleteDickens obviously is a master of writing dialects in his character's conversations. We learned that he was originally a reporter of some kind and traveled the country listening and taking in all the different dialects of the country.
"And you know what wittles is?" -convict
Wittles is really supposed to be victuals, yet Dickens writes so pro for his time that he actually spells out how a real low life class commoner would have said it.
"Oh Jaggerth, Jaggerth, Jaggerth! all otherth ith Cag-Maggerth, give me Jaggerth!" -Jew
Once again, Dickens proves his mastery in writing with this particular stereotyped dialect. Of course, Dickens could have put just what the Jew meant, but by adding a real-time dialect, Dickens adds more color to this character.
Abigrace Diprima, Period 3
ReplyDelete*EXTRA CREDIT*
Here is a song titled "Changes" by David Bowie that I think depicts some of the changes in Pip's character throughout his life.
Changes
David Bowie
I still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets
Every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence and
So the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't tell t hem to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Where's your shame
You've left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you can't trace time
Strange fascination, fascinating me
Changes are taking the pace I'm going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Oh, look out you rock 'n rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Pretty soon you're gonna get a little older
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I said that time may change me
But I can't trace time
Explanation:
-The lyrics "Every time I thought I'd got it made It seemed the taste was not so sweet" reflect when Pip got to London and yet was still reminded of his "blacksmith's arm" and commonness.
-The lyrics "Don't want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Just gonna have to be a different man" reflect the time when Pip was so young that he had no control over how much money he had, so he tried to become "uncommon" through getting as much of an education he could (going to Mr. Wopsle's Great Aunt's school and then asking Biddy to teach him all of the knowledge that she could offer).
-The lyrics "And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through" reflect an overall view of Pip's struggles with being common throughout his childhood. He is put down by Estella for his low status as he tries to make himself more of a gentleman. Pip is not "immune" to others' "consulatations" about him, those "consulatations" being what Estella says about him being a commoner, but he tries to be. He tries to be "immune" to Estella's harsh, cruel words by not showing her his feelings of being hurt (ex: Pip tries to hold back his tears from Estella's cruelty on his first visit to Miss Havisham's).
The lyrics "Pretty soon you're gonna get a little older Time may change me But I can't trace time" reflect the change that as Pip gets older, he changes in status and attitude. Yet, through Chapter 28, he does not make any extreme effort to try to remember his past because of the inaduequate feelings of being common that he had back then.
Clara Sims
ReplyDelete3rd Period
"Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion."
Chapter 4
This represents Dickens style and viewpoints about religion. In these statements, Dickens is saying that those who take so much time in making their religion perfect and pure, it becomes more unacceptable than no religion at all. Also, he is saying that when people dress and trim and fix and perfect and do so much regarding their religion, they forget that the whole point of religion is for a relationship with God (or any other figure of religion).
Katherine Read and Rebekah Kern; 2nd period.
ReplyDelete"It was understood that you wanted nothing for yourself, remember?" -Mr. Jaggers
"Which I meantersay, that id you come into my place bull-baiting and badgering me, come out! Which I meantersay as sech if you're a man, come on! Which I meantersay that what I say, I meantersay and stand or fall by!" -Joe
Those two dialogues represent how Dickens uses the dialect of a character in his style. You can tell by the way that Joe has poor grammer and repeatedly says "meantersay" that he comes from a lower class of society. And Mr. Jaggers uses proper grammer, therfore the reader can conclude that he had a proper educcation as a child and comes from a family with enough money to pay for schooling. Dickens's style uses dialect for the most part to convey to the reader some background information on a specific character.
Kate Deter, 7th period:
ReplyDelete"For, after I had made this monster (out of the refuse of my washerwoman's family)..." pg 230
"This Avenging Phantom was ordered to be on duty at eight on Tuesday morning in the hall (it was two feet square, as charged for floor-cloth)..." pg 230
These two quotes have excessive, unneeded information in parentheses. Since Dickens was paid by the word, these two examples make it seem like he was greedy. He already wrote many other novels and short stories, so he is well off. Yet he continues to add superfluous information, so one can draw the conclusion that, like Pip, he wants more.
Ashley Buda Period 2
ReplyDelete"Joe was a fair man, with curls of flaxen hair on each side of his smooth face, and with eyes of such a very undecided blue that they seemed to have somehow got mixed with their own whites.”
“She seemed much older than I, of course, being a girl, beautiful and self-possessed; and she was as scornful of me as if she had been one-and-twenty, and a queen.
One ingenious aspect of Dickens’s style is his use of names to describe characters. The first quote describes Joe, a common, working man. The phrase “Average Joe” relates to Joe’s character. By choosing the name “Joe,” I believe that Dickens’s was trying to portray the average man at that time. The second quote describes Estella from Pip’s point of view. The name Estella means “Star.” Dickens’s was very clever in selecting this name. Estella is like a star not only because of her striking beauty, but because she is forever out of reach for Pip. It could be said that Pip is reaching for the stars, but he is really reaching for a different star- Estella.
Matt Stout Peroid 7
ReplyDelete"Joe how are you, Joe"
Pip hor AIR you, Pip"
Charles Dickens uses misspellings to represent misspronuciations of words. He uses this to show how much more education Pip has had than Joe. Charles Dickens is also using this to show Joe's country accent and how Pip's accent has changed. In this situation it seems the Charles Dickens ment for Joe to be less mature than Pip even though their ages would tell otherwise. This makes these two sentences ironic.
jordan Locke 1st
ReplyDeletehttp://www.enotes.com/great-expectations/pictures/pip-cemetery
I think that this picture does a good job of showing the cemetery scene. It also shows how young and weak pip was and how scary the convict may have seemed to him.
Joy Smith 7th
ReplyDelete" if i could have kept him away by paying money, i certainely would have paid money" i choose thise because it shows how dicken uses repitition to make the reader look deeper into things that occur in the book. lik its different from saying.. i would pay money to keep him away from if i could have kept him away by paying money, i certainely would have paid money. because it make you think man how much of a bother could this person be. its like if you were to say something one thing to someone they hear it but if you say it twice mainly someone will be like.. okay i heard you! so i think Dickens uses repitition for that reason.
"This avenging phantom was ordered to be on duty at eight on teusday morning in the hall ( it was two feet square, as charged for floorcloth), and herbert suggested certain things for breakfast that he thought joe would like." to me dickens uses this sentence to shiw how every small thing isnt important in life. and he uses it buy putting the parenthesis arough the small statement about the room. it is there but it isnt there. because i think as humans we spend so much time looking at the details in life that we are never able to finish anything because we stop at every parenthesis. so i think heputs them there if needed for details at a time but also puts them there to be skipped over.
Jing Tan
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"A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin."
One of Dickens's styles of writing is the many uses of figurative language throughout the whole novel. Dickens uses figurative language when he has a detailed description of a scene, person, or object. The quote above describes convict with the use of anaphora, alliteration, parallelism, and personification.
"I checked off again in detail, his large head, his dark complexion, his deep set eyes, his bushy blackeyebrows, his large watch chain, his strong black dots of beard and whisker, and even the smell of scented soap on his great hand.
This quote as well depicts Dickens's favoritism in using figurative language. He uses parallelism and alliteration.
I'm not sure that this would count as a comment, but i think its good enough. I have read all the comments before this (it took me forever, will u ppl plz write less) and have gotten even more insight. Thhinking about Dickens style, it got me thinking what would he say about his style. So i found a song that said HWY LOOK A ME!! I heard it in a dream. I read too much great expectations and dreamed that dickens was singing this song. So now u all will have that Dream. Here is the lyrics, so look for the song. http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blackeyedpeas/mystyle.html
ReplyDelete"A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin."
ReplyDelete-What I adore most about Dickens style is not the literary elements he uses like alliteration and allusions, but that he WILL paint you the picture of what is exactly in his head to the very last detail. Whether it takes a compound complex sentence or a chapter he will outline for you the scene as he envisions it, from the slightest detail of what the character thought to the little details most authors leave fuzzy. Dickens by contrast will write until the picture is perfectly, crystal clear.
A second thing about Dickens style that is unique to his writing and him as a person is how he delves so deeply into his characters feelings so that you can connect with them. By doing this he also casually, and phenomenally, states truths of life that I, myself, can never adequately put into words, this exemplified in this quote about Pip's feelings over stealing for the convict:
"Since that time, which is far enough away now, I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young, under terror. No matter how unreasonable the terror, so that it be terror. I was in mortal terror of the young man who wanted my heart and liver; I was in mortal terror of my interlocutor with the ironed leg; I was in mortal terror of myself, from whom an awful promise had been extracted; I had no hope of deliverance through my all-powerful sister, who repulsed me at every turn; I am afraid to think of what I might have done, on requirement, in the secrecy of my terror."
Brandon Flynt 3rd period
ReplyDelete'My sister had a trenchant way of cutting our bread-and-butter for us, that never varied. First, with her left hand she jammed the loaf hard and fast against her bib-where it sometimes got a pin into it, and sometimes a needle, which we afterward got into our mouths. Then she took some butter (not too much) on a knife and spread it on the loaf, in an apothecary kind of way as if she were making a plaister-using both sides of the knife with slapping dexterity, and trimming and moulding the butter off round the crust. Then, she gave the knife a final smart wipe on on the edge of the plaister, and then sawed a very thick round off the loaf: which she finally, before separating from the loaf, hewed into two halves, of which Joe got one and I the other.'
'Whitewash on the forhed hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy perhaps. Anyhow, with the whitewash from the wall on my forehead, my obstinacy was adamantine. I reflected for some time, and answered as if I had discovered a new idea,"I mean pretty well."'
In both of these paragraphs, it shows Dickens focusing on small details, yet putting a vived picture in the reader's head. He also takes a metaphor and builds off of it.
Alex Yarini 1st period
ReplyDelete"Mither Jaggerth! Have a moment! My hown cuthen'th gone to Mither Wemmick at thith prethent minute, to hoffer him many termth. Mither Jaggerth! Half a quarter of a moment! If you'd have the condethenthun to be bought off from t'other thide-at hany thuperior prithe!- money no object!- Mither Jaggerth- Mither-!" - the Jew in chapter 20
Dickens writes how people view and stereotype people in his novels. Like here, a common stereotype for this time period was that Jewish people all had lisps. So Dickens gives the Jewish boy a very definitive dialect. How he describes things also is shown through dialects he gives his characters, not just how he directly describes the character.
"A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, shivered, and glared, and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin" - Pip describing the convict in chapter 1
This quote shows how Dickens seems to REALLY go into detail when describing characters or settings. He feels when descrbing characters, he must go into every small little detail. But it really does give us a clear image about what this man or this setting looks like and how their personality is.
Katie Reid
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"('Let her alone, will you?' said Joe.)"
"(I'll tell you, let her alone,' said Joe.)"
Theses are two examples of Dickens unique use of punctuation. In this situation Mrs. Joe is arguing with Orlick. Joe is tring to stop Orlick from saying anymore insults to Mrs. Joe, but the puncuation suggests that he is not heard. Parenthesis are used commonly for somewhat unnecessary comments, but Dickens found a new way of using this punctuation to set the mood that Joe's statements were just as unnecessary.
Fabrice De Miguel Wombel 1st Period
ReplyDeleteA style that Dickens loves to use is syntax, for instance:
'I say Pip, old chap what a scholar you are' cried Joe, opening his blue eyes wide, 'what a scholar you are' An't you?'
'I should like to be,' said I, glancing at the slate as he held it with a misgiving that the writing was rather hilly
You can see compared to the first one that the second sentence spoke as if it were choosing the words carefully as if it were a formal meeting. Joe does not seem to care in the least bit. He talks to communicate nothing else. Dickens use syntax, which is how a sentence is put together, to show what position in life are they exactly the rougher they are the lower the class the smoother ones, such as gentlemens, rest on the top.