Pip in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations

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Pip in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations From the first page in the book you can tell that Pip is a good-natured person who has a great imagination and you learn to like him as a character. The fact that he gave Magwitch the food that he asked for in the very first chapter of the book tells you that he always keeps his word and the. It is like Dickens is trying to get you to like Pip from an early stage of reading the book. Get you to like the caring, good-hearted, willingness of the young Pip. In a way, this makes Pip's unpredicted rise to a rich gentleman is even more disturbing for the reader because of the way Pip reacts to his newfound wealth. Joe had been like a father to Pip. Being a good friend, supporting him in time of need, and teaching him important values of life. Biddy taught Pip to read and write and loved Pip. For Pip to turn his back on these early friends just because of his new position in society was wrong. The little boy, who is one of the nicest people, at the first stages of the book, is turned into a horrible, embarrassing gentleman. It is very ironic that the wealth Magwitch gave to Pip as a gift to thank him for his act of kindness in chapter one in the marshes actually diminishes everything that Pip had in the world already. It eventually makes him unthankful to characters like Joe and Biddy and makes him embarrassed of his roots. In my opinion, I think it is the fact that Magwitch gives Pip the money to help him become a gentleman, that turns him into a kind of Frankenstein character not the other way round. Pip always dreams of becoming rich and being a gentleman, but in the end it is obvious that he does not need this unwanted wealth that drives him forwards in society but backwards in the real world, where other things count. The reader starts to dislike Pip in the book the more he gains and the

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