Great Expectations book review

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GREAT EXPECTATIONS BOOK REVIEW The classic story, Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens is a book full of meaning and it is all about the deep and touching life of a boy named Pip. At the start of the book, we discover that Pip is a young boy who has no parents. His parents and siblings have passed away through reasons unknown to the reader. He is then left to his sister, Mrs. Joe, to be bought up, rather painfully, “by hand”. Luckily she is not the only one to bring him up, as she is married to a blacksmith, Joe, who is Pip’s friend and guide throughout his life. At the first scene we find young Pip sitting uncomfortably on a gravestone in the graveyard out in the misty marshlands by his village. In the marshlands Pip comes across a weary convict, who plays an important part in Pip’s life. As Pip grows older he becomes the subject of an unknown group and is gifted with a large amount of wealth by that group. Throughout the book we follow Pip through his adventures, interests and coming to maturity, as he struggles with his strong sense of right and wrong. Charles Dickens portrays his characters and develops them through their life in an incredibly amazing way. Each character plays an important part in Pip’s life and many of them were enduring associates, such as “the pale young gentleman” that Pip fought in the courtyard at the Satis House, who turned out to be Herbert, the young man who Pip shares a room with at Barnard’s Inn. The return of Abel Magwitch, the convict, as Pip’s benefactor was very astonishing! All these characters, and the brilliant way they are developed and related to Pip, shed a light of understanding on the mood of the story. Although this book is full of pleasantry and familiarity, it is also, filled with difficulties and conflicts for Pip. The main conflict in this story is “man versus himself”. Throughout this novel the reader
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