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Self Improvement (Great Expectations (Examples
1) Pip is sent to Miss…
Self Improvement
Great Expectations 
Examples
1) Pip is sent to Miss Havisham's House to be someone and take the family out of ruins
2)Pip's ambitions focus on elevating his social class, on making himself into someone who seems worthy of Estella
3) Pip goes to London to become a gentleman
Citations
1) ", this boy’s fortune may be made by
his going to Miss Havisham’s, "
2) ''With this boy? Why, he is a common labouring-boy!’'
3) ''Well, Mr. Pip, I think the sooner you leave here - as
you are to be a gentleman - the better.''
Analysis
1)Miss Havisham was the only one in town who could educate Pip and teach his the ways to become someone of a higher social class
2) When Pip first saw Estella, he was in love but Estella saw him as a common person. Pip needed to become someone with manners and of a high class to be deemed worthy by Estella
3)Pip will go to London to become a gentleman and he thinks that through this process he will be happy.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Examples
1) McMurphy breaking the glass from the nurse station
2) Bromden reveals to McMurphy that he can talk and hear
3) Bromden escapes from the window
Citations
1) "The glass came apart like water splashing, and the nurse threw her hands to her ears"
2) " You can speak!"
3) " I put my hand on the sill and vaulted after the panel, into the
moonlight."
Analysis 1) McMurphy proved just as the glass can be broken, so can Nurse Ratched's system
2) Bromden builds up the self confident to tell McMurphy he can speak and hear. This shows that he has evolved from the beginning to show his improvement in the ward
3) Bromden finally is unleashed from all his fears and decides to escape the ward showing how he built up confident in himself compared to the "fly on the wall" in the beginning
The Necklace
Examples
1) Mathilde does everything in her power to make her life appear different from how it is
2)Her husband works everyday to make Mathilde happy
3) In the end, Mathilde finds out that the people you love is all you need to be happy
Citations 1) "For women belong to no caste, no race; their grace, their beauty, and their charm serving them in the place of birth and family."
2) " All he did was work, because the smile in her face was worth it"
3) "How singular is life, and how full of changes! How small a thing will ruin or save one!"
Analysis
1) Mathilde would act differently in order to be deemed as from a higher social status
2) Even when Mathilde was at fault, he still worked to fix her mistakes and be loyal as trait of being happy
3) Mathilde eventually found out that happiness comes from the people you are around and even though she started to work for the necklace , she always had her husband by her side
Raisin in the Sun
Examples
1)Mama sees the insurance payment as a way to fulfill her dream of owning a house
2)Beneatha dreams of the money as a way to fund her medical schooling
3)Walter fantasizes about the way in which money would increase his social standing
Citations
1) " buy a little place out in Morgan Park.
We had even picked out the house."
2) '' Listen, I'm going to be a doctor''
3) "I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy…Mama – look at me."
Analysis
1) Mama buying her dream house symbolizes her deep-seated yearning for “freedom” from racial persecution.
2) Her choice to become a doctor, embodies her desire to overcome racism and sexism and be someone
3) Walter is continually frustrated by his inability to fulfill the masculine role of financial provider for his family. so he wants to become the role figure by having money
The Horse Dealer's Daughter
Examples
1) Ferguson's success makes him think differently of the town
2) Poverty hits Mabel's life
3) Jack and Mabel's love proved to become something real
Citations
1) " I'll be a servant to my wife's father"
2) "Oh where shall I go to get food"
3) " I saved her as she was drowning and knew that she was different"
Analysis 1) Ferguson managed to find a job even after his father died, which made him think differently of the town where he was from
2) Even though Mabel's life was hard, she managed to live everyday and found love in a peculiar way
3) It was rough at first , the love Jack and Mabel had, but it endured in the end as they kept working together each day