Child Development Essays

Within chapters one to eight in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Harper Lee truly pinpoints the essence of childhood between Scout and her ubiquitous childhood friends, Jem and Dill. Scout’s (Jean Louise Finch) demeanour is that of a rebellious tomboy with a fierce attitude and an enquiring nature. She is extremely …

It is relatively easy to see that during the first 9 chapters of the book there are several intended and significant mirrors of events between the children’s sheltered world and that of the adults. Throughout the book the transition from childhood to adult life remains a key theme and the …

Pip grew up south of the river Thames in Kent. He lived in a small village and he was incredibly poor. He lived with his sister and her husband, who is a blacksmith, due to his parents had an unfortunate deaths. Pip presumed that he was also going to be …

The novel “Jane Eyre” is a fictional biography by Charlotte Bronte. Its main character, the orphaned Jane Eyre begins the story as a little girl growing up unloved & abused in her aunt’s house. She is then packed off to a boarding school, where she is initially forced to endure …

At the beginning of Jane Eyre, Jane is at Gateshead. Gateshead creates a lonely, desolate contrast from the busy Victorian cities like London, and is also situated in the middle of nowhere. This means that there is no way of escape from Gateshead and because of this, Jane is forced …

Both “Great Expectations” and “The Fallen Idol” are written by exceptional writers. The novel “Great Expectations” was set out in the Victorian period whereas the short story “The Fallen Idol” was set in the period of the 1940’s in London. “Great Expectations” was a buildings roman. This showed the process …

Great Expectations is a novel revolving around the protagonist and narrator of the novel, Pip, whose life is moralised and shaped through two major events that take place in his life. In the opening of the novel, Pip is faced with a mysterious encounter with an escaped convict, Magwitch. Near …

In Victorian times, children had a very suppressive upbringing; “spare the rod and spoil the child” was a common motto. Children were treated poorly and unfairly, they were expected to be seen and not heard. In “Great Expectations”, Pip is treated very harshly by his sister, Mrs Joe, “…she had …

This was Dickens’ second-to-last complete novel. It was first published as a weekly series which made its first appearance in December 1860. Similar to Dickens’ memories of his own childhood and his great use of complex dual perspective we experience in his early years the young Pip seemed powerless to …

The practical work our group performed in October 2007 was a devised performance meaning we took for example a poem or part of a script and based our performance around it. Our devised piece of work was based on childhood memories. In this essay I will evaluate my own contribution …