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Great Expectations Charles dickens was a very famous author of the Victorian times who lived from 7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870, exploiting many different problems of the tome in to his own stories. 'Great expectations' is about a poor orphan boy named Pip who is raised by his sister and her black smith husband who he becomes good friends with. As the book advances he turns from rags to riches with the help of Abel Magwitch; an escaped convict that Pip saves, in the beginning of the novel, from starvation. As Pip progresses into the upper class he becomes less and less humble and more ignorant and looks down upon the poor. Dickens intention for this might be to show that wealth and power are not the source of happiness or to make you a better person. At the beginning of the novel Pip is sitting by the graves...

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