Pip's Great Expectations

Sometimes people go through life living a lie. People tend to forget where they come from and forget about those people who helped them get where they are. They become conceited, ambitious, proud and stuck-up. In Charles Dickens novel, Great Expectations a boy name Pip had these same issues. The point of this story is to teach us not to act this way because in the end some people do not fulfill their expectations and things begin to go downhill. Pip had great expectations for himself, but in the end they were not fulfilled.

As a young child Pip went through many trials and tribulations. Dickens starts the novel off with the young orphan boy, alone in the cemetery trying to imagine what his parents looked like. At the beginning he sets the tone of sadness, which makes readers feel empathy for Pip. Then, Pip is forced to steal from his own family, which makes him a more pathetic person...