Cider with Rosie

Laurie Lee describes his childhood days deep in the remote English countryside a hundred years ago. Rural people had lived this harsh but idyllic way for centuries, without cars, electricity or modern medicine. It is now a lost world where a four-mile winter trudge to the next village was a major journey. Lee's evocative memories centre on a first romantic encounter with a girl called Rosie….

Discuss The Presentation Of Childhood In Great Expectations And Cider With Rosie
Childhood is portrayed in many ways in both Great Expectations and Cider with Rosie. The ways in which the authors, Charles Dickens and Laurie Lee portray this are different and similar in many ways.
At the beginning of Great Expectations by Dickens, the main character Pip is seen as typically childish where his imagination can run away with himself and he jumps to stereotypically childish conclusions. For instance early on in chapter 1:
"My first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably deriv...