My Friend Joe

thinks, "Next day, I had the meanness to feign that I was under a binding promise to go down to Joe; but I was capable of almost any meanness towards Joe or his name." (Dickens, 391) Pips thoughts here, represent how he starts to realize how he has changed since moving to London. In his childhood, Pip was practically best friends with Joe, then becoming a gentleman, he has this sense that he is above Joe and essentially wanted nothing to do with

compassionate siblings, my family makes life worth living. These people, the rest of my immediate family, and best friends have all played such an significant role in shaping me into the man I am today. I could say so much about all of them and impart all the praise they deserve. However, I’d like to shift the spotlight to a person who lacks credit for his inspiring, resolute affect on my life. One person that has played an unexpected and unknown major role in my life is Joe Patrick. Prior to high

out to London in the quest of becoming a gentleman. He lives a bad life neglecting his friends and family before his redemption stage where he tries to amend all the mistakes that he had committed in his stage of sin. The novel revolves around Pip who is the main character. Other supporting characters in the novel include his sister Mrs. Joe and Joe Gargery who was her husband. Although Mrs. Joe was a bad lady, Joe holds on to the marriage for the sake of Pip. Miss Havisham was a wealthy lady who lived

newly graduated high school students. I was so fascinated by the wild stories my older brothers and their friends told about their road trips that I could not wait to experience my own. Three close friends and I planned a short but adventure-packed trip to Miami, Florida. We had high hope for the long weekend. Tom, Joe, Kevin and I left the familiar surroundings of Northeast Florida early one Thursday morning. Joe was driving his used Acura Legend down Interstate 95, ignoring all traffic laws

meaning, I Colton was heading out to go fishing with friends. That day before my friend Joe and I planned to go fishing. So i woke up early that next morning so i could get all my gear packed and than i decided to take my dog along too. I started heading over to green river from rock springs and headed over to pick up Joe from Teagans house. Well when i got into green river i started to smell something really awful and i looked in the back seat and my dog had threw up. So i pulled over and stopped at

University, and then walked to the restaurant where, apparently, Margaret’s friend Lou wanted to meet. As they entered the place and were guided towards a table, Mary saw her ex, Jerome, as well as another boy she did not know. Before Mary had the chance to say a word, Margaret started rapidly word-vomiting, “It was my idea - well, Jerome’s - well, both. Joe’s my ex, Jerome and I started seeing each other and you and Joe should too! Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem, how perfect!” “Margaret, WHAT were

After his parents and five siblings pass away, Philip’s strict sister, Mrs. Joe, and her not-as-stern boyfriend, Mr. Joe Gargery, inherit Philip, where his sister “brought him up by hand.” Pip’s struggle with his identity subconsciously starts at the beginning of the novel. “My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came

Carly and Joe all my life. I went to Highschool with Joe and was his best friend since freshman year. I still remember meeting him for the first time in Robotics class, he always laughed and smiled. It would brighten everyone else’s day, even when he was truly sad. I never really known him to be sad. He always was happy, even when he got in a accident and his baby, this red Ford Focus was completely wrecked. I still remember the night I took him to this get together up in Komington. My cousin told

Emotional Health- Touching the Void The novel by Joe Simpson is a novelization of the traumatic events as experienced, through the eyes of Joe Simpson. An advantage of a story being told through the eyes of Joe Simpson is that the reader can experience all of Joe’s feelings and not just the way that other characters perceive Joe. A disadvantage of this view point is that the reader does not experience other characters as much as we otherwise would. Touching the void fixes this problem by also showing

In life, fortunes are won and lost. Both enemies and friends are made and destroyed. People often say that fortunes impact relationships, but that is not true. The novel, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, proves the inaccuracy of that statement. It is not wealth that annihilates true friendships, but the greed of man and how he acts in his immaturity. Even though it may seem that wealth affects relationships on the surface, once you begin to look into it you find that these relationships are