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How does CharlesDickens create an exciting first instalment to his book Great Expectations?
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How does Charles Dickens create an exciting first instalment to his book Great Expectations? The opening paragraph explains how Pip got his name. This appears to be as when Pip was a child he was unable to pronounce his full name being Philip Pirrip so his name was shortened to Pip. Early on in the first instalment you get to know Pips family history. This is explained by saying to the reader that pips parents are dead, and only him and his sister are alive. All ready you begin to feel sorry for pip as his as no memory of his family. The only way pip can image what his parents looked like is to compare it to the writing on their tombstones. An example of this is when pip says his father must have been stout with curly black hair; he got this idea from how the letters are written...
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