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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Pip,
a
young
orphan
lives
a
humble
existence
with
his
ill-
tempered
older
sister
and
her
strong
but
gentle
husband,
Joe
a
Christmas
Eve,Pip
helps
a
convict
who
escaped
from
a
prison
ship
by
giving
him
some
food
and
a
day,Pip
gets
invited
unexpectedly
to
the
house
of
a
rich
old
woman
in
the
village
named
Miss
Havisham
is
an old woman who was abandoned on her wedding day
, so she raise her adoped
daughter
Estella
as
a
cruel-hearted
girl
who
will
break
men's is
beautiful,
and
Pip develops a strong crush on her,
but she treats him coldly
and that time
on,
Pip
aspires
to
leave
behind
his
simple
life
and
be
a one
day
Pip
is
given
a
large
fortune
from
a
secret
benefactor
and
get
a
chance
of
education
to
become
a many
years
Pip
has
led
a
fairly
undisciplined
life
in
London,
enjoying
themselves
and
running up debts,and
finally becomes a selfish and peacockery lasts
until one
day,Pip learns the true
identity of his
benefactor
——
it is not Miss
Havisham
(who
has
made
many
misleading
comments
indicating
it
was
her)
but
rather
a
petty
criminal
named
Magwitch
who is the
convict Pip helped in his is he that left
all his money to Pip in gratitude for
that kindness and also because young Pip
reminded
him
of
his
own is
appalled,
but
he
feels
morally
bound
to
help
Magwitch
escape London, as
the convict is pursued both by the police and by
his former
partner in Magwitch’s
escape attempt, Estella marries an
upper
-class lout.
Also,they
are
discovered
by
the
police
and
captured
to
the
jail,
because
of
their
convict partner's
tipping by now is devoted to Magwitch and
recognizes in him
a good and noble man
and Pip has discovered that Magwitch is actually
Estella's
money
or
expectations,
Pip,
after
a
period
of
bad
illness
during
which
Joe
cares
for decides to go
abroad in the mercantile trade. Returning many
years later,
he encounters divorced
Estella in the ruined garden at Satis House. Pip
finds
that Estella’s coldness and
cruelty have been replaced by a sad kindness, and
the two leave the garden hand in hand,
Pip believing that they will never part
again.
Plot
summary: Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
Philip Pirrip, who is known
as Pip because, not surprisingly, he finds it
difficult to pronounce his name, has a
terrifying childhood experience in a
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