Student Essay on Great Expectations

This essay is about chapter 39 of Great Expectations

The opening of the chapter reads: "I was three-and-twenty years of age. Not another word had I heard to enlighten me on the subject of my expectations, and my twenty-third birthday was a week gone." This reminds the reader of the mystery surrounding the source of Pip's wealth, therefore 'feeding' the reader's curiosity, and also possibly providing a clue that something relating to the mystery may soon be revealed. "not another word had I heard...on the subject of my expectations" "arose out of the restless and incomplete tenure... -I had a taste for reading" the three paragraphs emphasise the fact that Pip isolated and alone. "I was alone, and had a dull sense of being alone". Dickens choose to go into such detail to get the point across to the reader that he was going through.....