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How Did Dickens Create Sympathy For His Characters In The Opening Extract Of "Great Expectations" Dickens wrote Great Expectations in 1860, this was in the Victorian times . In the opening of the extract we are introduced to a young child called Pip , whose parents are dead .Pip is at an unattended graveyard when a strange looking man came and grabbed Pip . Dickens wanted sympathy for the poor because when he was young he knew how it felt to be poor ,he wrote this book to show the rich how they lived and try to change society .Dickens own family were in prison so he knew what the conditions were like and he wanted to change it all. Dickens used a lot of devices to create sympathy including the way he used his characters , the way the he structured the opening to tell us...

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