GE #11

“There’s subjects enough as betwixt two sech, without onnecessary ones” (444). Pip’s main parental figure in this novel is Joe. The two of them are friends in the beginning--lasting through to the end. Though Pip changes frequently (social class, views on topics, location, etc.), Joe is the one character linked to Pip that is constant throughout. He never deviates from his loving manner towards Pip. To emphasize Joe’s decency Dickens includes one key factor: dialect. The reader may not realize the importance of this in the beginning, but once Pip has become a “gentleman” Joe’s specific dialect emerges. The reader realizes how far Pip has come, eventually contrasting the new and the old Pip. Joe’s evident dialect towards the end ties the novel back to the beginning, just one instrument that Dickens uses to complete his story.