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    their morals and value of money have made the biggest impact on their lives. To start, Joe is uneducated while Miss Havisham is very knowledgeable. Joe never learned the write and can only recognize two letters when Pip writes him a note. Joe is a blacksmith, and it is not necessary for him to be able to read and write. Growing up, he probably never had the opportunity to go to school. Joe is not concerned that he is uneducated but finds it wonderful that Pip can read and write. On the other hand, Miss

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    What Does The Tyger Mean

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    An Analysis of William Blake’s “The Tyger” William Blake is known for two collections of poems, those collections are Songs of Innocence (1789) and it was added onto with Songs of Experience (1794). It is from those collections that he draws out his innermost thoughts on life often looking at “a being of God” or “the very human existence.” In his poem “The Tyger” he used numerous literary devices that center on divine creation ultimately putting beauty and destruction hand in hand, it does this

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    The Tyger Analysis Essay

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    a fierce creature. He wonders if God could really create such a creature or maybe it is a creature produced from a darker source. Blake also refers to the tiger as a form of art, almost as if the creator made the tiger perfectly. The image of a blacksmith is also given through the poem as Blake refers to a blacksmith’s common tools and

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    Who Is Miss Havishony

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    In the early stages of this novel, Pip is on the path to become a blacksmith, just like Joe, until he meets a young lady, named Estella. She is being raised by a very wealthy woman who wants to make her emotionless so she will break men’s hearts in vengeance for being defrauded. But the opening scene pictures Pip stumbling upon an escaped prisoner in a graveyard. Pip helps the prisoner, then Pip mentions that he saw another man before he found him, and the prisoner goes on the hunt for that man.

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    agreed to sell the farm. “Where will we work?” asked Paul. Good question Joseph thought to himself. “Well you could work as blacksmiths,” said the king The one job that was one step above nothing: blacksmiths. Master Smiths make large amounts of money, but lower smiths made a lot less. Joseph and Paul had been lucky to be farmers, but now they were blacksmiths. Paul would collect wood for the furnace, and Joseph would operate the billows while the Master smith, Jacob, would do the metal

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    Nixie Monologue

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    Listening to the blacksmith stammer in wonder of how Nixie could have managed to damage a sword so badly, her gaze shifted to the side and down at nothing in particular. Even in all the years that she pretended to practice with that sword, she mostly used it in ways she shouldn’t have. Using it in her travels to roast fish, or whatever she manged to scrounge up, in her travels. It made a great spit when she couldn’t bother to find anything more suitable. When she wasn’t using it to cook, she

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    Life of Hephaestus Have you ever seen a beautiful piece of metal work , I bet the last thing you thought about was greek mythology. Well , Hephaestus was the god of fire, metalwork, and building. He was thrown off of mount Olympus by his parents because of his lameness. Even though Hephaestus was very ugly and had some lameness, he never let it stop him in his metalwork and building. He was a young boy when his parents figured out he was lame with club feet. One his deformities was his unattractiveness

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    deformed so she threw him into the sea where a Sea God caught him and took care of him. In real life many people judge each other by how they look without actually getting to know them. Hephaestus was just born and Hera had no idea about his talents in Blacksmith and metal work. The second connection I made was that everyone has a talent or something

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    chairs, and it’s different living quarters. There is a small apple orchard with special fencing around it to keep the elk and other surrounding wildlife, from eating all the apples. There is a barn, blacksmith shop, gardens with real food growing in them, plows, a chicken house, and a pig pen. The blacksmith shop is still working, but unfortunately we arrived when there wasn’t anyone in there. The gardens had all kinds of fruits and vegetables growing there. Even some I’ve never even heard of! There

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    Mad Joe is the blacksmith’s nephew. Even though the blacksmith is one of the main characters in the story and a narrator provides us with a lot of information about his personal life, the blacksmith never interacts with his nephew, not even at church. Therefore, Mad Joe does not receive any kind of support a mentally ill person would need from his well-known uncle. Thus, the question arises whether the blacksmith is as decent man as a narrator presents him to be. Furthermore, Mad

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