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The two scenes repeating Pip’s childhood trauma in Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations” (1861)
In my Academic Writing classes this morning, we looked at two passages from Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations" (1861) in which the narrator Pip's traumatic childhood scene is repeated, first in the return of the convict Magwitch and then in the return of a second convict, Compeyson. In both sessions, we