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    The fire at Miss Havisham house was curious at best. Pip goes to Miss Havisham’s home to ask her for an investment loan for Herbert’s career she agrees to pay Pip the money. Pip notices that she looks sad and lonely. Miss Havisham then asks Pip if there is anything she can do for him and he declines her offer of money. In one instance Miss Havisham is begging Pip to forgive her and a short while later she manages to catch on fire. Pip treats Miss Havisham kindly as he goes for a walk in the garden

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    Ever since her 18th birthday, Pippa had been experiencing the strangest things. Suddenly, things she had never seen began to appear, and the things would often disappear. She had thought for a while that perhaps she was going insane, but something told her that her absentee mother and workaholic father had something to do with it. Rare occasions were when Pippa would learn about her family history, even if it had to do with school, the answers were incredibly vague and never changed. Almost as if

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    Pip’s primary goal in Great Expectations is to win the heart over of the wealthy and beautiful Estella, and to acquire something else to achieve this goal: wealth. Being of a lower class and the playmate of Miss Havisham, as far as Estella is concerned, Pip is nothing to her in the beginning. Not to say this isn’t the case of Pip’s feelings for Estella, as in the very beginning of their interaction everything he feels is purely lust: lust for the stunning Estella, hankering for the wealth he wishes

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    Miss Havisham Fire Essay

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    The Fire at Miss Havisham’s house. Dickens Included this in his Novel to make it Popular and create a Suspense. The Symbolic Purpose that the Novel Serves is that Dickens wanted the Reader to be in Suspense to find out the Reason of Miss Havisham’s house getting on fire. Also, another Symbolic Purpose that the Story serves is that Miss Havisham didn’t like men at first but later on in the Novel as the time passed she started to understand that all Men aren’t the same. Maybe she felt bad of what she

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    Miss Havisham Fire

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    repeatedly in the novel is fire. Though there was a fire in multiple areas of the novel, the one scene in where fire played the biggest role was the scene of the fire at Miss Havisham's home. The fire is a symbol of her wasting away her life, her coldness towards people as ironic as that is, and as a source of punishment and cleansing. Miss Havisham is a lonely individual who has been through many struggles in her life. One example of a struggle she has been through is when she was getting married and

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    that I have chosen to talk about is the Miss America Pageant Protest. This was a protest that occurred in 1969 in Atlantic City. This protest started off as a publicity stunt, so more individuals would tour the city. The pageant was divided into a couple of days of the week and each day their would be different events for women that were chosen to attend. This event was basically portraying that women had to be a certain way in order to compete or get the “Miss America” title. As time went on, feminist

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    As Miss Havisham told Pip, a young man who fell in love with her daughter Estella, "I'll tell you what love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter-as I did,"().Miss Havisham didn't believe in love anymore after her failed attempt at her own, so she had no respect for the feelings of others. Miss Havisham's personal prison is combined by and strengthened

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    Written in the 1800s, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens addresses the status of England during the social period of the Industrial Revolution and colonialism. Dickens uses the perspective of Pip, the narrator, and his character development throughout the novel to express the wide gap in the social ladder. Although Pip’s account is given from one later point in his life, the tone and language gives the reader a feel for Pip’s changing qualities of maturity, morals, values, and social standing

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    never ending sequence of problems. Every person has to learn to overcome them throughout his or her life to better themselves. In the story, I Want to be Miss America, by Julia Alvarez, she tells the story of how she and her sisters adapted to American style and culture. Her family came from the Dominican Republic. At a young age, they watched the Miss America Beauty Pageant, which show portrayed the ideal woman. So, the sisters changed their looks to appear like the women on the show. It was not until

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    Great Expectations

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    boy named Pip that goes to London because a benefactor funds his journey to become a gentleman. Pip later finds out this benefactor is a convict who he met several years before. Pip is in love with a girl named Estella who he met as a young boy at Miss Havisham’s, Estella’s mother, house. Pip has confessed his love to Estella multiple times, but she continues to say that she does not love him back. Pip thinks of her in everything he does but, eventually admits that he no longer loves her. Dickens

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