Great Expectations, written by Charles Dickens, and Left Hand of Darkness, written by Ursula K. Le Guin, are books that have two different and conflicting plots. Great Expectations is about a boy named Philip Pirrip who grows up in a low social class and has the desire to become a gentleman. He wants to impress and win the heart of a girl named Estella that he has fallen in love with. However, in Left Hand of Darkness, the story starts out in the view of a man named Genly Ai who travels to another planet called Winter. His mission is to get the state of Karhide and Orgoreyn to join the Ekumen, a group of planets that are very advanced, so they can trade with them. A barrier Genly Ai has to pass is that the people of Winter are ambisexual, which
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Pip has two people in his life that Dickens describes their relationship as him being thankful for them. Joe is one of the people that Pip has a special relationship with because he was the first one to show him love and in the book it says, “When I offered to your sister to keep company, and to be asked in church at such times as she was willing and ready to come to the forge, I said to her, 'And bring the poor little child. God bless the poor little child,' I said to your sister, 'there's room for him at the forge!” (Dickins 59). In the beginning of the story, Dickens starts to create a bond between Joe and Pip with events such as Thanksgiving dinner and gravy, but as the story progresses Pip gets invited over to a ladie’s house by the name of Miss Havisham, and she has an adopted daughter of the name Estella, and Pip thinks he has met the love of his life. He finds out that she thinks he is not for her because he is poor and uneducated and that is where he starts on his journey to become a gentleman and try to become rich to impress Estella, but what he doesn’t realize is he is hurting the people around him and starts to feel embarrassed by his family and even Joe. Pip starts to fade away from Joe and not be grateful for his love and eventually leaves to fulfil his dream of becoming a
Pip has two people in his life that Dickens describes their relationship as him being thankful for them. Joe is one of the people that Pip has a special relationship with because he was the first one to show him love and in the book it says, “When I offered to your sister to keep company, and to be asked in church at such times as she was willing and ready to come to the forge, I said to her, 'And bring the poor little child. God bless the poor little child,' I said to your sister, 'there's room for him at the forge!” (Dickins 59). In the beginning of the story, Dickens starts to create a bond between Joe and Pip with events such as Thanksgiving dinner and gravy, but as the story progresses Pip gets invited over to a ladie’s house by the name of Miss Havisham, and she has an adopted daughter of the name Estella, and Pip thinks he has met the love of his life. He finds out that she thinks he is not for her because he is poor and uneducated and that is where he starts on his journey to become a gentleman and try to become rich to impress Estella, but what he doesn’t realize is he is hurting the people around him and starts to feel embarrassed by his family and even Joe. Pip starts to fade away from Joe and not be grateful for his love and eventually leaves to fulfil his dream of becoming a