Bildungsroman/ Age

Question 1

JE 1

Answer 1

“John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years older than I, for I was but ten; large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin”

Question 2

JE 2

Answer 2

“John gambles dreadfully, and always loses… John is sunk and degraded -… I feel ashamed for him when I see him”

Question 3

GE 1

Answer 3

“My sister, Mrs Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I, and had… brought me up “by hand”… and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand… I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand”

Question 4

GE 2

Answer 4

“It was the first time that a grave had opened up in my road of life, and the gap it made was wonderful. The figure of my sister… haunted me night and day.”

Question 5

Encyclopaedia Britannia, Bildungsroman

Answer 5

“class of novel that deals with the maturation process, with how and why the protagonist develops as [they do], both morally and psychologically”