Great Expectations Book Review

smashing Expectations Book ReviewGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens, first published in 1860, is a classic fictional raw. The novel doesnt rightfully have a genre, possibly a drama or adventure, but its more similar just his story so Id say just a prescript fictional novel. The story is set in 1812 to 1840 in an English townspeople surrounded by marshes, speckle lived outside the town, once receiving his fortune he moved to London though.The novel tells of hit, a young orphan, and his story, his life. billet was increase by his sister, only known as Mrs. Joe, and her husband Joe. In the root system of the novel take is in a graveyard, where his parents are buried, and he is approached by a shady looking man, who is in fact an break loosed bunco, the condemn asks lash to bring him whatsoever tools so he can escape and blister does this. This becomes very important in the novel.One day Pips uncle takes him to coquet at a rich, weird hoary ladys house, Miss Havisha m, here Pip meets Estella, who he falls in love with, though Estella only toys with Pips feelings and doesnt wish him at all.Pip then becomes Joes apprentice blacksmith, but Pip struggles as a blacksmith and isnt very happy. Then one day a lawyer called Jaggers appears and announces to Pip that he has been left a large fortune and needfully to move to London immediately.Pip moves to London, meets many new people and has some fun. Then one night a convict breaks into Pips room, the same convict that Pip assistanceed when he was just a little boy, and the convict, Magwitch reveals that he make a fortune in Australia and he gave Pip his mysterious fortune.Pip is shocked but decides that he will help Magwitch escape from London, and so they escape. Pip begins to like Magwitch as they get to know each otherwise and Pip discovers many things about his past. As Pip is about to help Magwitch escape London Pip is nearly killed, Magwitch eventually does escape and kills somebody, he is se ntenced to death and hence Pip loses his fortune.Pip then goes and works oversea as a merchant, many years later he returns groundwork and meets his childhood love, Estella, they get together, with Pip believing they will be together forever.Two principal(prenominal) characters of Great Expectations are Pip and Estella.Pip is the main character is the novel, he is also the narrator. In the beginning of the novel Pip is a young child but as the book goes on he ages and is an adult by the end. Pip is a goodish boy, he always tries to do what is right, and is quite sympathetic, e.g. helping Magwitch, always caring for Mr. Mrs. Joe. Pip is always looking to improve himself, whether it is learning to read and write as a boy, or learning to become a gentleman. He is of the tear down classes, until he receives his fortune, and he desires to become an focal ratio class, largely so he can impress the girl he admires, Estella.Estella is an important character in the novel. As a girl sh e had been raised by Miss Havisham to be cruel and heartless towards men. When she meets Pip she acts cruel and heartlessly, toying with his emotions. Though Pip still loves her, maybe he saw something inside her, or he just longed to be in the upper class. She then married an upper class man, who treated her badly, this would have changed her, gotten rid of her coldness and cruelty. So when Pip returns she is kind, and they get together.The themes in this novel include kindly class, aspiration, wealth and crime. I think that Charles Dickens in this novel was trying to say that social class doesnt matter, and that desire to become better and change should be congratulated.The novel is set in first person, with the narrator, Pip, also being the main character. The address used is pretty weird, with some old English sort of overindulge in there. Once you get used to the language its pretty good and not that hard to follow.Overall, I thought this novel was pretty good, for an old bo ok. The language used was a bit hard to get at beats, and sometimes the story was a bit slow, but overall I thought it had a good story and I liked it. Estella was an enkindle character I thought, normally the girls are loving and the guy isnt really interested or too busy doing other stuff, but this time Pip loved her and she was totally uninterested and cold. And the twist with Magwitch having supplied Pips fortune I thought was good as well.7/10 on the eggshell of goodness.