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controversial character of Mr. Joe Clark was played by Morgan Freeman. This film was released on March 3, 1989. Lean on Me was Morgan Freeman’s first major motion picture film where he stars as the lead role. This movie is loosely centered on Joe Clark, a real life principal from Paterson, New Jersey, who, just as the fictional character of Mr. Joe Clark, is a tough, hard, aggressive and abrasive. The fictional character of Joe Clark, who was also nicknamed “Crazy Joe”, was

“Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio, Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you,” (Simon & Garfunkel, 1968). This famous song lyric from Simon and Garfunkel’s song Mrs. Robinson has sprung up much controversy in America, since it was released in the year 1968. Many tragedies and changes had happened in the years between when Joe DiMaggio retired from his baseball career and when this song was written. People wanted a happier time in the United States, like when Joe DiMaggio was a major icon among the

In the second chapter, Mrs. Joe, Pip’s sister, is described as an able but aggressive woman who beats Joe and Pip a lot. I’m interested in Pip’s unusual interpretation of the phrase “by hand,” which is used by the neighbors to describe how Mrs. Joe has raised Pip. Here, Pip explains the phrase “by hand” as Mrs. Joe’s casual beating of him. Mrs. Joe’s abuse of Pip, who is just a child, sets a bad image of her in my mind and makes me compare her with the evil queen from the fairytale “Snow White”.

characters especially Pip, Mr. Joe, Biddy, Orlick, and Mr. Pumblechook. The death I will be focusing on in this paper is the tragic death of Mrs. Joe Gargary. Mrs. Joe goes by that name because she, in a way, takes on the manlier role causing a gender reversal. Each of these characters had their own unique relationship with Mrs. Joe, good or bad. Pip had one of the closest relationships with Mrs. Joe because she raised Pip, even though she was his sister. Mrs. Joe took on the mother role, raising

Mrs Joe always tells Pip how lucky he is to have her as she “raised him up by hand.” Joe Gargery: Joe is Mrs Joe’s husbands and is a good friend and supporter of Pip and helps show the kinder side of the characters in the book as he has a lot of patience and is very kind. Joe works as a black smith and helps provide an income for the family. Joe can also be seen as a metaphorical fire of the earth as he works as a black smith

The first example of this readers see is Mrs. Joe. Although she is an uneducated, low-class citizen, she is still very proud and is content with the idea of being more worthy than others. Insight on this is given any time a character speaks on "being brought up by hand". Whenever Mrs. Joe is applauded for this, she reacts pridefully by continuing the behavior to bring more jealousy about the situation. For instance, Mrs. Joe, "Entered on a fearful catalogue of all the illness I had

very young age by the hands of Mrs. Joe. Often times during Pip’s childhood, Mrs. Joe would often physically beat him for his wrong doing and one of her more popular ways to do so was through a stick called the Ticker. Young Pip explains his situation as this: “Having at the that time to find out for myself what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon me, I suppose Joe Gargery and I were both brought

describes his sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, who is more than twenty years older than him, and extremely unattractive. She is famous in the close-knit neighborhoods for having raised Pip up by hand, in which Pip stills ponders the true meaning of. Despite the fact that Mrs. Joe is described as an unpleasant woman, her husband, Joe Gargery, the blacksmith, is portrayed as a fair man who Pip finds as incredibly agreeable and amiable. Regardless of Pip's impression of his sister and Joe, the story continues

Lean on Me is a 1989 film who was acted by the 1988 Oscar nominee Morgan Freeman as Mr. Joe Clark. Lean on Me defined as something to be with or someone who can count on and in the story it shows how a Principal of a School had been a father,mother,brother and bestfriend of every student in Eastside High School. The story Lean on Me is showing how a simple School Principal use his power as a head to change a dirty,low class and old school into a clean, environment friendly and a high class High School

being your mother too.” Mrs. Joe makes very snide comments to Pip, such as on page 25, “ If you bring the boy back with his head blown to his bits by a musket, don’t expect me to put it together again.” Pip is scared of Mrs.Joe because of her “hard and heavy hand.” On page 8, Joe tells Pip about how Mrs.Joe went out with her tickler, “Tickler was a stick, worn smooth from hitting my tickled body.” Mrs.Joe was very brutal towards Pip and using the tickler frightened him. Mrs. Joe makes very snide comments