The author of ‘Great Expectations’ achieves his intentions by exploring the state of mind of a man recollecting a moment in his childhood. The passage is a first-person narrative of a young man talking about himself in the past and how his world was viewed through a very shroud, unprejudiced eyes of a young boy (himself).
The passage shows a young boy and how he sees the world and other people around him. The author makes the narrator the victim of the other character’s hypocrisy, being the youngest character in the passage, the narrator is shown to be the main target of the other characters that appear to be older and believe themselves to be wiser. The author allows the reader to sympathize with the narrator and trust what he says on his judgment of people in maturity.
As the reader is seeing things through the child’s eye, they learn to trust and believe in what he has to say. The boy appears to understand the hypocrisy of it all and puts a lot of evidence and quotes of what he remembered each of the characters to have said. The passage opens in the kitchen where the whole passage is set. The narrator describes the other characters and what they used to seem to him through his young eyes. ‘My short days I always saw some miles of open country between them when I met him coming up the lane’.
I think the author is trying to show in this, the innocence of a young child’s view of the world while at the same time adding a little humor to the passage, making the reader smile a little thinking of the young boy’s vivid imagination. The difference in the character’s generations is contrasted through what the young child sees. The narrator seems to describe the older generation as though they were entirely different to him. The passage shows the young child’s life through the descriptions of other characters and how he was treated during his childhood.
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Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik follows the crazy, madcap life of a man who attempts to escape the system that is life by creating mayhem in the world. The main character, the narrator, throughout the book, remains nameless. He is Mr Ordinary Joe, he goes to work, he does his job, he comes home, and he spends his money. His job as an auto-recall supervisor is eventless and is one of the main reasons ...
The other characters in the passage, through their style of speech can be seen that they are in fact of an average class and not half as upper class as they each try and make themselves up to be. As is clearly shown through Mr. Hubble’s rhetorical question, ‘Why is it that the young are never grateful?’ and answering himself by saying ‘Naturally Wicious’ in his cockney way of speaking hinting that he is not of an upper-class. The characters are constantly criticizing the young boy while at the same time, trying to make each of them seem more superior to the other.
