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GCSE Assignment on Great Expectations »

Jack Todhunter | Friday August 07, 2009

Categories: Courses, GCSE, Prose, Great Expectations, Writing, Essays, Prose Analysis

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Points to consider when assessing Chapter One of “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens.

Some ideas to get you started…

  • What makes this opening chapter a good read? It might be useful to colour code your sheets with a highlighter pen!
  • Narrative technique – first person narrative. What effect does this have on you, the reader? What does first person have that third person misses and vice versa?
  • Setting (Where is the story set?)

The setting is very important in Great Expectations in a number of key scenes. The varied settings...

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