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Solitary Confinement Tear Gas
2,619 wordsWhen I was sent to the Missouri State Penitentiary at Jefferson City, in February 1960, there were 2, 500 men inside "the walls. " The white convicts slept three to a cell (except for several hundred in the one-man cells). The blacks slept as many as eight to a cell. Stabbings and killings, robberies and rapes were common. Dope was easier to get in prison than it was on the streets. There were men in prison who were said to make more money each year from dope and gambling than the warden was pai...
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Back Into Society Jean Valjean
636 wordsDuring the 19 th century the treatment of both convicts and ex-convicts was in most peoples eyes inhumane. A convict would be worked for long hours without food. Many ex-convicts were never fully re-accepted back into society due to their past as a convict. If an ex-convict managed to keep his past a secret and make a new life for himself, if and when the ex-con revealed his past he was once again excluded and not considered a part of society. When Jean Valjean is finally released from the galle...
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Break His Heart Miss Havisham
1,450 wordsThe story begins in a village near the marshes where a young boy named Pip lives. Because his parents are dead, he lives with his sister, Mrs. Joe Gallery and her husband Joe whos a blacksmith and Pips trusted friend. Pip doesnt have much of a future, hes destined to become Joes apprentice and eventually a blacksmith. Then, Pip meets a convict out on the marshes. It seems like nothing important, despite it being frightening, but this meeting will change his life forever. The convict asks him to ...
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Sentenced To Death Charles Dickens
1,659 words... Pip is conducted inside the prison and imagines that convicts are going to be executed in the same way as animals are in Smithfield. Mr. Jaggers, the sinister lawyer, has a strong character in the exercise of power. He provokes horror on Pip as Pip notices his unpleasant tone when arguing with his clerk, Mr. Wemmick, and the way he threats his clients. The description of his office suggests that a large part of his work as a solicitor consists of manipulating evidence and he is always seen f...
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Jean Valjean Turning Point
906 wordsVictor Hugo made it so that the characters in Les Miserables progressed throughout the novel. The theme progress can be seen and used widely. Three main characters, Jean Valjean, Cossette, and Javert expressed positive and negative forms of growth. Jean Valjean began the story as an ex-convict who was searching for food and shelter after working in the galleys for sixteen years. Unfortunately, he failed to receive compassion from any lodging, or home. While he was wandering through the streets a...
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Male And Female Based On Gender
1,513 wordsEven though male and female convicts were transported to Australian colonies from 1788 to 1840, their experiences throughout this period were remarkably different. This essay will attempt to compare and contrast the experiences of both female and male convicts transported to Australian colonies from 1788 to 1840. L. L Robson states that, between 1788 and 1840 over 24 960 female convicts and 122 620 male convicts were transported to Australia. Even though both male and female convicts suffered at...
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Comparing Great Expectations And Of Mice Men
1,121 words... prologizes for his outbursts and says that he likes Lennie. This shows the reader that George is willing to put up with Lennie because they are friends and he enjoys Lennie's company. Steinbeck uses imagery to portray Lennie's cumbersome physique. Drank with long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse. This shows the reader that Lennie is like a horse, strong and not very bright. He drank out of a stream without even checking the water to see if it is safe. This is the behavior common t...
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Guilty Conscience P 23
1,117 words... tle's Pip by alluding to the potential fate from which he was saved by the kindness of Mrs. Joe: "Besides, " said Mr. Pumblechook, turning sharp on me, "think what you " ve got to be grateful for. If you'd been born a squeaker -" (p. 27). Pumblechook torments Pip by saying how horrible his destination would have been if it weren't for Mrs. Joe. When Mrs. Joe recites to the guests all the trouble that Pip has caused her their response intimidates Pip: "everybody had looked at me (as I felt pa...
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Low Self Esteem Released From Prison
1,422 wordsIn any good novel, and even in life, people can be influenced in both positive and negative ways. In the three novels that we have read so far, Great Expectations, Ls Misrables, and Wuthering Heights, the main characters are faced with negative challenges and influences. Positive guides and influences also affect the characters in these books; the positive guides usually end up winning in the end. In Great Expectations, the main character of the story was Pip. Some of the negative influences tha...
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The Significance Of Prison Images In Great Expectations
1,850 wordsThe Significance of Prison Images in Great Expectations Crime, punishment, guilt and innocence are issues very well explored in Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations. The images of prisons, very vivid description of jail atmosphere and constant feeling of guilt prevalent in the books main character, Pip, makes us pay especial attention to this subject. It is clear that it doesnt emerge in the novel on its own, but comes from a real life experience of the author. This book is partly autobiogra...
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Dreams Come True Miss Havisham
3,351 wordsDiane Boissonneau March 26 th 199 Great Expectations: The Book Verses the Movi Charles Dickens wrote many famous works, including Great Expectations. Recently, a movie loosely based upon this book was directed by Alfonso Cuaron and starred Gweynth Paltrow and Ethan Hawke. Great Expectations is a sensual tale of a young mans unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the surprising interactions of these vivid characters, this...
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Brother In Law Pip
1,562 wordsIn Great Expectations, Pip, the protagonist and narrator of the story grows from a young child to a mannerly gentleman with high social status. Throughout the story he goes through many changes. However, in the end it turns out that Pip was handed too much too quickly. Bad fortune falls upon him and he is sent back to his poor home in Kent. All considered though, this novel is a true story of love and in the end true happiness for Pip is obtained. Great Expectations was set in early Victorian ti...
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Miss Havisham House Miss Havisham And Estella
6,821 wordsPlot Great Expectations Chapters 1 - 8 Plot and Setting- The plot starts out with a little boy name Phillip Pirrip. It is a first person narrative about a boy back in the nineteenth century. The first eight chapters deal mostly with Pips childhood years. It also deals with who Pip is, and his family. In the beginning of the story Pip introduces himself, and introduces his dead parents. He is in the graveyard, and then a scary looking man comes up. The man threatens him. The plot of the story I t...
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Victorian England Satis House
607 wordsGreat Expectations which was set in Victorian England tells the story of a young boys struggles in life. Pip, a young orphan who lives with his older sister is seated the cemetery looking at his parents graves when Magwitch an escaped convict attacks Pip and orders him to bring food and a file for his leg iron. Pip obeys, and gets everything the convict asks for, but soon the convict is captured, but he protects Pip and says that he stole everything himself. Pip soon goes to a play at the Satis ...
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Break His Heart Joe And Biddy
2,777 wordsIn Great Expectations Great Expectations In his book Great Expectations, the problematic nature of moral judgement and justice that stems from a conflict between Gods law and human law is one of several topical themes that Charles Dickens addresses. This paradox regularly surfaces in his treatment of plot and setting, and is more subtlety illustrated in his use of character. To facilitate the readers awareness of such a conflict, the narrator often uses language that has Christian connotations w...
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Break His Heart Pip
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Sentenced To Death Crime And Punishment
3,335 wordsGreat Expectations: The World Of Laws, Crime Great Expectations: The World Of Laws, Crime And Punishment The World of Laws, Crime and Punishment in Great Expectations Great Expectations criticises the Victorian judicial and penal system. Through the novel, Charles Dickens displays his point of view of criminality and punishment. This is shown in his portraits of all pieces of such system: the lawyer, the clerk, the judge, the prison authorities and the convicts. In treating the theme of the Vict...
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Miss Havisham And Estella Pip And Joe
4,611 wordsEstella Havisham: Most readers are appalled at the cold-hearted and cruel ways of Estella, but any criticism directed at her is largely undeserved. She was simply raised in a controlled environment where she was, in essence, brainwashed by Miss Havisham. Nonetheless, her demeanor might lead one to suspect that she was a girl with a heart of ice. Estella is scornful from the moment she is introduced, when she remarks on Pips coarse hands and thick boots. However, her beauty soon captivates Pip an...
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Pip And Joe Charles Dickens
1,038 wordsall (Dicken s characters), no matter how briefly sketched are real. (CLIFFS NOTES P. 54). Charles Dickens has the ability to make his characters very close to human, if not human. Charles Dickens novel, Great Expectations, is mainly based on a character named Pip who goes from rags to riches. Joe Gargery, Pip s brother-in-law, lives with Pip and Mrs. Joe in the marsh country. He is a blacksmith who doesn t make a lot of money but manages to stay a mild and good-natured man. But what causes Joe t...
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Chain Gang Sean Penn
3,465 wordsThe first prison films in American cinema were short documentaries and melodramas which all shared a strong social consciousness. For The Commonwealth (1912) showed the benefits of convicts performing useful labor; The Convict&# 39; s Parole (1912) and The Convict King (1915) denounced the exploitation of prisoners as cheap workers. Convict Life In The Ohio Penitentiary (1912) and The Modern Prison (1914) depicted the beneficial effects of the humane treatment of convicts; Life In A Western Peni...
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