Great Expectations CWK

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Great Expectations CWK
How does Dickens create sympathy for his
characters in Great Expectations?

• You do this essay by studying how Dickens creates
  sympathy for THREE characters
• Pip
• Magwitch
• Miss Haversham

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So you write your essay in 3 sections
Pip
And having done it for Pip, you repeat it for
Magwitch and Miss Haversham
Magwitch
Miss Haversham
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Great Expectations CWK
How does Dickens create sympathy for his
characters in Great Expectations?
At its most basic level, the answer to this is
that Dickens tells us things about them that make
us feel sorry for them that make us warm to
them as characters. (THIS is where you show that
you understand the story.)
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So you write this
Pip In the story Dickens tells me and this
makes me like Pip because
And having done it for Pip, you repeat it for
Magwitch and Miss Haversham
Magwitch In the story
Miss Haversham In the story
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Great Expectations CWK
Pip In the story
This will get you a pass at Grade G/F showing
that you understand the story.
Magwitch In the story
Miss Haversham In the story
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Great Expectations CWK
How does Dickens create sympathy for his
characters in Great Expectations?
To get a higher grade than G/F, you need to show
that you understand how Dickens uses language to
affect his reader (you) to make you sympathise
with his characters.
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Great Expectations CWK
How does Dickens create sympathy for his
characters in Great Expectations?
So you need to add paragraphs for each character
showing how Dickens uses things like detail,
lists, repetition, adjectives, comedy, dialect
etc., and how these affect the reader. (THIS is
where you show that you understand English.)
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So you write this
Pip In the story Dickens tells me and this
makes me like Pip because By his
language Dickens uses the technique of and
this affects me to like Pip because
and repeat for
Magwitch In the story By his language
Miss Haversham In the story By his language
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Great Expectations CWK
Pip In the story By his language
This will get you a pass at Grade E/D and
perhaps higher explaining how Dickens uses
English to create sympathy.
Magwitch In the story By his language
Miss Haversham In the story By his language
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Great Expectations CWK
How does Dickens create sympathy for his
characters in Great Expectations?
To secure a Grade C or go higher you will need
also to show that you understand about the book
in its historical context.
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Great Expectations CWK
How does Dickens create sympathy for his
characters in Great Expectations?

• One way you can do this is by adding in
• General comments about each
• character.
• 2. General comments about the
• book in its historical context.

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Great Expectations CWK
How does Dickens create sympathy for his
characters in Great Expectations?
You can get all the information you need to do
this from the BBC Bitesize site http//www.bbc.c
o.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/prose
greatexpect/
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Great Expectations CWK
For character http//www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebi
tesize/english_literature/prosegreatexpect/2prose_
greatexpect_charrev1.shtml
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Great Expectations CWK
For context http//www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebit
esize/english_literature/prosegreatexpect/0prose_g
reatexpect_contrev1.shtml
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Brief description of the book in its context
Pip Brief character-description of Pip In the
story Dickens tells me and this makes me like
Pip because By his language Dickens uses the
technique of and this affects me to like Pip
because
Magwitch Brief character-description In the
story By his language
Miss Haversham Brief character-description In the
story By his language
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Great Expectations CWK
How does Dickens create sympathy for his
characters in Great Expectations?
So your finished essay should go like this
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Brief description of the book in its context
Pip Brief character-description of Pip In the
story Dickens tells me and this makes me like
Pip because By his language Dickens uses the
technique of and this affects me to like Pip
because
Magwitch Brief character-description In the
story By his language
Miss Haversham Brief character-description In the
story By his language