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  1. The best study guide to Mr. Pip on the planet, from the creators of SparkNotes. Get the summaries, analysis, and quotes you need.

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      The “redskin” officer forces his rebel captive to identify...

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      Matilda spends the first several pages of Mister Pip...

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      A rowdy rebel soldier and Bougainville native who threatens...

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  2. The “redskin” officer forces his rebel captive to identify the fugitive Pip, and the man points to Mr. Watts’s house. The soldiers shoot Mr. Watts and then chop him up with machetes. In a show of power, the officer then asks who saw this act of violence, punishing anybody who admits to having witnessed the heinous act.

  3. A rowdy rebel soldier and Bougainville native who threatens to sodomize Mr. Watts. When he is later captured by the “redskin” forces, he fatally identifies Mr. Watts as Pip, who the “redskin” officer thinks is a fugitive rebel. The “redskins” then kill the soldier.

  4. Sep 25, 2006 · Mister Pip (2006) is a novel by Lloyd Jones, a New Zealand author. It is named after the chief character in, and shaped by the plot of Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations. The novel is the story of a girl caught in the throes of war on the island of Bougainville.

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  5. May 20, 2008 · Mister Pip. by Lloyd Jones. Publication Date: May 20, 2008. Paperback: 272 pages. Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback. ISBN-10: 0385341075. ISBN-13: 9780385341073. A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy. Author interviews, book reviews and lively book ...

  6. May 20, 2008 · As artillery echoes in the mountains, thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers are riveted by the adventures of a young orphan named Pip in a city called London, a city whose contours soon become...

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  8. Feb 24, 2009 · For Matilda, Dickens’s hero Pip becomes as real to her as her own mother, and the greatest friendship of her life has begun. Soon Mr. Watts’s book begins to inflame the children’s imaginations...

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