Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a fun book that grabs the reader’s
attention, you feel some of the same emotions as some of the characters or you at
least have a strong opinion on what they’re thinking. The book is about a boy named
Pip, who wants to become a blacksmith like his brother in-law Joe, but he suddenly
changes his mind and wants to become a gentleman, due to a girl named
Estella, the adopted daughter of a querulous, old woman named, Miss.Havisham.
An anonymous benefactor pays for Pip to live in London and have an amazing
education. Thanks to all the people who help Pip, he is able to do whatever he
pleases, but he does not thank those people, and desires more. Pip’s prideful ways
blind him of the generosity of others, causing him to be ungrateful and experience
despair. …show more content…
Pip’s embarrassment and stubbornness almost lost him a friendship between
him and his brother in-law Joe, who was his great friend before he lived in London:
“I had been mistaken in my fancy that there was a simple dignity in
him. The fashion of his dress could no more on its way than when he
spoke these words then it could come on its way to heaven. He
touched me gently on the forehead and went out. As soon as I could
recover myself sufficiently, I hurried out after him and looked for him
in the neighboring streets, but he was gone” (Dickens 236).
If only Pip loved Joe for who he was and was not ashamed of him. Pip’s
stubbornness also made him seem selfish and ungrateful when he met his
anonymous benefactor, named Magwitch. The money Magwitch was giving Pip was
salutary, but not being used because Pip was too prideful to use it after he found out
who his benefactor was. Again, he almost lost another friendship by being
attention, you feel some of the same emotions as some of the characters or you at
least have a strong opinion on what they’re thinking. The book is about a boy named
Pip, who wants to become a blacksmith like his brother in-law Joe, but he suddenly
changes his mind and wants to become a gentleman, due to a girl named
Estella, the adopted daughter of a querulous, old woman named, Miss.Havisham.
An anonymous benefactor pays for Pip to live in London and have an amazing
education. Thanks to all the people who help Pip, he is able to do whatever he
pleases, but he does not thank those people, and desires more. Pip’s prideful ways
blind him of the generosity of others, causing him to be ungrateful and experience
despair. …show more content…
Pip’s embarrassment and stubbornness almost lost him a friendship between
him and his brother in-law Joe, who was his great friend before he lived in London:
“I had been mistaken in my fancy that there was a simple dignity in
him. The fashion of his dress could no more on its way than when he
spoke these words then it could come on its way to heaven. He
touched me gently on the forehead and went out. As soon as I could
recover myself sufficiently, I hurried out after him and looked for him
in the neighboring streets, but he was gone” (Dickens 236).
If only Pip loved Joe for who he was and was not ashamed of him. Pip’s
stubbornness also made him seem selfish and ungrateful when he met his
anonymous benefactor, named Magwitch. The money Magwitch was giving Pip was
salutary, but not being used because Pip was too prideful to use it after he found out
who his benefactor was. Again, he almost lost another friendship by being