The setting is also a key factor in the first chapter because it sets a spooky atmosphere and also the mood of the reader by saying “a memorable raw afternoon” it makes the reader that the weather is the worst thing that is happening but it also describes the graveyard as “over grown with nettles“it makes the reader feel that the place is uncared for a bit like Pip is uncared for (As his parents have died and he is brought up by his cruel sister Mrs. Joe Gargery).
Dickens also makes Pip sound isolated by saying “the dark flat wilderness”. It makes the reader feel something creepy is going to happen as Dickens built up tension for a special event.
The Victorian setting is shown by the fact that pips Pip’s parents and also 5 of his brothers have died because at that time period there was numerous death counts.
Pip is the narrator of dickens’s book is the main character of the story title “great expectations” with suggests that he is going to do successful things when he grows up. He is described as an “infant tongue” with suggests he is young, and also to support that conclusion in the 2nd paragraph it says “I drew a childish conclusion” witch also suggest he is young and childish.
In the story Dickens wants the reader to feel sorry for Pip,
Even when he becomes more intolerant of his surroundings further on in the story when he basically becomes a snob.
Pip sounds vulnerable when the atmosphere is described.
Magwitch was a convict that threatens Pip at the begging of the story we do no that it is Magwitch that threatens Pip, as he is not revealed till the end of the novel.
Dickens describes Magwitch as a convict because He only reveals his name near the end of the story when he gets out of prison.
Dickens shows how frightening Magwitch to Pip by the use of comers and by saying exactly what he looked like “A fearful man” dickens revels that Magwitch is a convict by telling the reader that he “with a great iron on his leg”. Its creates suspense by making the reader wanting to know if anything bad happen to him. Magwitch tells Pip that he is going to “slit his throat” it creates suspense by making the reader think if Magwitch will actually kill him. But the reader feels sorry for him, as dickens tells the reader that Magwitch has been “soaked in water, smothered in mud, lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and ton by briars; who limped and shivered” etc. he dose this to give the reader mixed emotions.
In conclusion the writer has created tension by making the reader see mixed emotions about the way the characters are feeling and how they react. The introduction of the story creates suspense because Charles Dickens makes the reader want to no the name of the character(Magwitch) and doesn’t get revealed until further on in the story.