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Great Expectations

, had died due to an attack she had suffered months before. This devastated him in that he would no longer be wed to Estella. When he professed his love to her, he learned that she was to be married to a person whom he despised.Pip later discovered that his benefactor, named Magwitch was the real father of Estella. When Magwitch was captured and sentenced to death for past crimes he had committed, Pip returns home to find that his friend and person whom he planned to marry instead of Estella, had married Pip’s brother-in-law after his sister was murdered. When Pip then goes to Miss Havisham’s deserted house, he finds Estella there whom he talks to about their past relationship. Then they part for the last time, without Pip feeling badly about it. *Dickens incorporated many effective writing techniques in his style of writing which makes the novel enjoyable to the reader. The techniques employed by Dickens help to add reality to the book and help the reader understand the characters’ feelings.Dickens used several techniques in the story that made it more real to the reader. One such technique that Dickens used was that of dialect. He used this by not only writing the dialogue in the way that it would be said in terms of the sentence structure used in the character’s speech, but he also spelled out single words by the way in which the character would pronounce them. This allowed the reader to almost know exactly how it would sound had the character been talking right in front of them.Dickens used the technique of dialect when the “commoners” spoke. A few instances of this include when Joe spoke and said particular as “partickler.” This juxtaposition of the commoners’ speech and that of the wealthy persons’ articulated speech allows the reader to understand the education difference between people of both classes.Dickens also repeats and stresses certain things that are said and fe...

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