GE #5

“The two convicts were handcuffed together, and had irons on their legs--iron of a pattern that I knew well” (214). A literary device commonly used throughout Dickens’ novel is foreshadowing. Dickens uses definite levels of foreshadowing to give the reader further knowledge, and the ability to guess upcoming events. The reappearance of convicts to the novel once more adds the dimension of crime. The fact that Pip recognizes the pattern of the irons makes the reader remember the convicts in the beginning, and potentially foreshadowing the many events ahead that they are involved with.