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With Reference To the First Three Chapters, How does Dickens convey a sense of sympathy for the child Pip, and menace for the convict, Magwitch? Charles Dickens was, and still is one of the best novelists who ever lived. His stories were based on experiences of him and people he knew. The most famous of his novels, Great Expectations has links to his life. For example, he trained to be a blacksmith before he started writing; his father was a convict in the Victorian times which holds true to the character of Magwitch. In the first chapter Dickens describes a young boy, Phillip Pirrip, who calls himself Pip running across the marshes to get to a graveyard where his parents lie. We get a sense of sympathy for Pip as the atmosphere seems cold with whistling winds and gibbets around the marshes. When pip gets to the graveyard he gathers a...

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