Dickens Discussion Notes

We began our discussion of Dickens and his literature work by conversing his flaws and strengths. As we did this, my group realized the trouble we all had understanding the characterization of Dickens when we had not caught on to the fact that Mrs. Joe was Pip's sister and not a nun. This conversation led us to discussing the different literary techniques the author also uses. The literary techniques we ended up with was symbolism, theme, tone, point of view, imagery, diction, syntax, allusion, direct characterization, indirect characterization, and mood. We also talked about the book in general and how the characters had interesting names and if that told us something of Dickens personality, and if so what? The book, in my opinion, is rather interesting. The detail the author uses makes imagery a very strong technique because I can easily paint the picture in my head of what is going on.