On the night that Pip is visited by the convict, the weather and the atmosphere suggestssuggest that something strange or scary is about to happen. For instance, the repetition of the word “mud” and the use of the words “shipwreck and death”, which both have very negative connotations, contributes to this suggestion. In the first paragraph, he alsothe author also uses pathetic fallacy. Dickens'Dickens's description of the weather reflects Pip’s unhappy emotions. When Dickens repeats “mud”, he is trying to emphasize that it was very wet in all the streets, not just a little muddy. I think that the effect of repetition is to make the reader remember the word "mud", because that is the main word describing the streets. The mention of “shipwreck and death” sows a seed in the reader's mind that we are always thinking about death.

Writing in the first person, as Dickenshe does throughout the story, Dickens puts the reader in Pip’s perspectiveshoes, and so we can access the readersreader's thoughts and feelings. For example, “I was listening, and thinking how the wind assailed and tore it, when I heard a footstep on the stair.”. His use of the first personfirst-person narrative is an effective technique as we are p.

Dickens creates a sense of gothic unease when he relates the ominous noises to thehis sister's horrific experiences of his sister from histheir childhood and has a flashback. When he says “what nervous folly made me start, and awfully connects it with the footstep of my dead sister”, we can tell that the situation is very serious. The use of déjà vu in this sentence implies that he is so scared that he associates his fear with the traumatising event from when he was young.