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Read the first paragraphs of Chapter I in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, stopping before the stranger speaks. Pip explains his name and remembers imagining his parents from their gravestones. Examine what counts as evidence for the child and how the older narrator evaluates that reasoning. The opening can be comic about an inference while still revealing the emotional need behind it.
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