Great Expectations.

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From pages 60-61 the history shows us that what they wore sort of reflected on what they were selling like when Pip describes the corduroys that the shop keeper is wearing to the seeds in one of his draws because he sells seeds it says about this “ I hardly knew which was which”. Also the shop people have longer hours of work they run from 7:00am to 8:00pm. What Pip also found strange is that all the shop owners used to look at each through there shop windows apart from the watch maker who is always getting on with his work because of all his customers he had. Also everyone’s attitude towards children used to be so different back then you used to be able to hit them but now a days you can be put away in jail this shows how things change and how long ago it was.

Also from pages 60-61 we find out that Mr Pumblechook character changes from being all nice and happy to Pip to treating Pip with no respect this might have change because Pip’s sister is not there so Mr Pumblechook tells him things like “you’re a horrible little boy”. But when she is there he is all nice to Pip. He is also asking Pip to do sums all the time. When Pip escapes Pumblechook he is very pleased but still nervous that he might come back. Mr Pumblechook is shown as a greedy selfish person this is shown by him always eating.

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The language and the writer’s techniques from pages 60-61 is quite complicated because he uses words like “peppercorny” which means spicy and “farinaceous” which means dusty (floury) these are not easily found in most dictionaries. Also he uses the description of Sati’s house to get the atmosphere of whether Pip will go or not.  

The history from page 62 shows us that this was normally always dark in a house because there was little light, it only came from one or two candles.  In Sati’s house, Stella only had one candle and the room where Miss Havesham ...

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