Discuss Dickens use of descriptions of clothes, actions and voices to help the reader imagine a character. Dickens draws his characters in bold colourful strokes. Pip himself is somewhat colourless hero: he’s not a source of the action but a witness to the colourful events and people who almost thrust themselves into his life. EX 1: The convict jumps at him, turns him upside and changes his life forever by becoming a father-like figure for …showed first 75 words of 963 total…

…showed last 75 words of 963 total…doing something with her life, becoming rich for example, and now she is just married to a simple blacksmith and she has to do all the house hold. Although this is my first novel that I have read by Charles Dickens, I do think it is very well thought out as the characters in the book are so over the top and not realistic, yet the plot is based on the important morals in life.