Type+of+Work+and+Discussion+Questions

Marissa Murgia Rebecca Raso Justin Ringland Jonah Ruggiero

What type of work is this novel? Research this question on the Internet and educate your readers on what this means. Furthermore, you are responsible to choose eight GOOD discussion questions from the novel. As a group, you must comment on your classmates' responses to the discussion questions. You do not answer the discussion question initially, but you can comment on the responses, where you will eventually be answering the question in a response.

 The Novel Great Expectations is a work of historical fiction. Historical fiction is a made up story based on historical events and time periods with realistic situations and characters. For it also portrays accounts of dramatic historical figures and events. For example, __Great Expectations__ takes place in England during a time where class was everything. __Great Expectations__ also refers to the infamous prisons where people were sent if they had great debt. The novel refers to this part of history, when the main character, Pip ends up ill in prison due to his growing debt. The novel relates to what could have happened to a person in that time period.   Social criticism- analyzes social structure which are seen as flawed and aims at practical solutions by specific measures, radical reform or even revolutionary change In __Great Expectations__ social criticism is shown greatly. Back in the Victorian time period, everyone was split up by social classes. All the rich and the wealthy people in the higher class, did not respect the lower classes at all. The lower classes were looked at as being horrible and that they were worth nothing to anyone else in the town. The higher classes also did not want to be associated with the lower classes. There was g at respect for the rich during this time and everyone looked up to them and wanted to be like them. The social outcasts of the time were all the lower class and no one would want to talk to them because they werent as wealthy as the higher classes and the higher classes thought they were too good for the lower classes to be associating with them. Debt prisons were for those who were unable to pay their debt. Before the mid 19th century, debtors' prisons were a common way to deal with unpaid debt. During this time, prisoners would often die from diseases that they would catch while being in prison. Ifthe father was in prison, the whole family would suffer because no one wuold be bring ing inthe money for the famly to have. Sometimes prisoners would be released from the prison to work there to play off their edbt in labor instead of always being in prison.

Websites to check out; [|www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/ge/pva101.html] http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/greatex/