Parody Pastiche

 My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. In other words I am not too intelligent and I can't say my own name but no-one wants to tell me how odd I am. 

         

         The shape of the letters on my father’s, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. So just to fill you in I imagine people from the letters on their tombstones, and still no one calls me "special". From the character and turn of the inscription, ‘Also Georgiana Wife of the Above,’ I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly, apparently I also have mother issues. There were five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine - who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle - 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 had never taken them out in this state of existence. Now apparently babies where suits and put there hands in there pockets, seriously is no one is going to tell me I am slightly odd?

Reflection on Social Graph

The narrative timeline my group chose to explore was a graph of social status for the characters; Pip, Joe, Magwitch, Miss Havasham and Jaggers from Great Expectations. We made a number of interesting observations such as Jaggers stays the same through out the book (as does Miss Havasham), by the end of the book Joe had gone up in social status, Magwitch was the lowest of all the characters and had a slight rise in chapter 35 (1822) when he came into money and helped Pip, finally Pip had many ups and downs in social climbing however he ends up a lot higher then when he started. From this exercise I learned how much Pip actually went through in the book and how because of his highs and lows in social climbing I can really see why sometimes he found it hard to connect with Joe, to actually try and get Estella to fall for him and also how he should have made his relationships with Magwitch and Miss Havasham, and finally how he would have felt really guilty as he left Joe and Mrs Joe behind socially and this all would have been very hard.

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