The book begins with the main character, Pip, standing in the graveyard of his parents. He is an orphan living with his abusive sister and her submissive husband. Pip meets Miss Havisham lat

"My sister, Mrs Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I, and had established a great reputation with herself and the neighbours because she had brought me up `by hand`. Having at that time to find out for myself what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon me, I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand. She was not a good-looking woman, my sister; and I had a general impression that she must have made Joe Gargery marry her by hand."

The novel is very accurate as far as class distinction is concerned. Magwitch perfectly represents lowly criminals of the time and the peasant lives of Biddy and Joe who works all day to feed themselves represents the peasants of the time. Miss Havisham’s manor is described in the novel and the gothic look it retains is similar to that of an 18th century European home. The child rearing discussed in the paragraph before is also accurate. Children in 18th century Europe were beginning to see mothers who cared for them and that meant more discipline in the form of punishment for

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