In the quote, "Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.", Pip is referring to the first day he went to Miss Havisham's house. The first day he went there, he was introduced to Estella and Miss Havisham, who are of a higher class than Pip, so it was a different environment for him. Once Estella tells Pip that he is common, he immediately tries to become uncommon, just so he can impress Her. By this, he eventually doesn't even want to become Joe's apprentice anymore, just because he knows Estella would never want to be with a blacksmith. He changes what he wants to do and how he wants to live his life just for a girl who treats him like dirt.

There has been many memorable days in my life, but the one that i feel started my big chain is the day i started playing volleyball. My dad introduced me to the sport when i was just a small baby. He was a coach and he would bring me to his practices, and ever since then I have been in love with it. From the day of my first tryout, it has been 7 years since I started playing. I know that my life would be completely different if I never started playing volleyball. It has helped me become who I am today.

Dishonesty

For my first concrete detail, I am going to discuss how the author uses dishonesty to develop the characters in the play. Wilde uses it to give the personality traits and characteristics of Ernest and Algernon to show how their lies contribute to the play and how it gets them out of bad situations. For my second concrete detail, I will discuss how dishonesty reflects Victorian society. The characters do this by living up to the social expectations, even though that means they try to be something they're not, basically by acting fake. Finally for my third concrete detail, I am going to discuss how dishonesty develops the play as a whole. Wilde portrays the idea of dishonesty through dark humor and reflection on the way they lived way back then. It also shows the satire on social expectations and marriage throughout the entire book. The next paragraph will talk about the different levels of dishonesty.