Great Expectations The plot of Great Expectations revolves around Pip as a young boy and his chance encounter on the Kent marshes with an escaped convict, Magwitch. It follows Pip's journey through to adulthood and gives insight into ... things over and makes polite conversation. Pip remembers about the £2 that he was given as a child and he tries to pay him off by giving him two clean pound notes, but straightaway Magwitch burns them because he is offended that Pip is trying to get rid of him in this way. However, when their conversing turns to how Pip became ... is unfair as she never le...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Pip Pirrip is the protagonist and narrator in the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Being raised by his sister and brother-in-law in Kent, England, Pip is an innocent, compassionate but lonely young ... true gentleman in the first place once again brings him back onto his feet. Lonely because of isolation from the everyday outside world and "normal family-ties" (Coles Notes 101), Pip often visits his parents in the churchyard and explores the marshes. Upon one of these visits he runs into a convict who aggressively demands " a file ... to keep up with me?"(118) and "I should have b...

• Word Count: 656
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School