Blog #4 Analysis of Dickens word choice.

I believe that Dickens used this form of righting to keep you tuned in to the writing. He made you believe that you didn't know what was going to happen next. Dickens had the ghost not wanting to see her just yet, he told Lorry how it would kill him if he saw her too soon. (18) The spirit was talking about how he was buried alive. Lorry was shocked to hear that he had abandoned all hope in being found or of freeing himself from the grave. Lorry asked how long he was in the grave and he replied, "A long time" (18). YOu then find out the ghost was in the grave for eighteen years. I think Dickens put this in the novel because of how it would make people think and connect to the ghost, by thinking to themselves what if that was me in that guys position, that would be terrible. Which now he has a reputation with all the readers that he went through a great trauma. Dickens wrote "Sometimes, it was given in a tender rain of tears" (18). When I read this sentence I thought it was a pretty deep sentence and i really liked, this passage was so deep and sentimental and I greatly enjoyed how he described how he was feeling. Towards the end of the passage, The ghost stated, "I don't know her, i don't understand." (18). I think that the ghost saying this is to foreshadow the meeting of Lucy and Dr. Monette, and how at first he doesn't recognize her the first time he meets her.