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Summary of the whole novel the great expectation by charles dickens

Answer 1

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Great Expectations is the story of Pip, an orphan boy adopted by a blacksmith's family, who has good luck and great expectations, and then loses both his luck and his expectations. Through this rise and fall, however, Pip learns how to find happiness. He learns the meaning of friendship and the meaning of love and, of course, becomes a better person for it.

The story opens with the narrator, Pip, who introduces himself and describes a much younger Pip staring at the gravestones of his parents. This tiny, shivering bundle of a boy is suddenly terrified by a man dressed in a prison uniform. The man tells Pip that if he wants to live, he'll go down to his house and bring him back some food and a file for the shackle on his leg.

Pip runs home to his sister, Mrs. Joe Gragery, and his adoptive father, Joe Gragery. Mrs. Joe is a loud, angry, nagging woman who constantly reminds Pip and her husband Joe of the difficulties she has gone through to raise Pip and take care of the house. Pip finds solace from these rages in Joe, who is more his equal than a paternal figure, and they are united under a common oppression.

Answer 2

Summary of the whole novel the great expectation by Charles dickens:

Great Expectations is about an orphan boy named Pip who lives with his sister and brother-in-law, who had great expectations regarding him. But he is not treated well in that home. He once offers food to an escaped convict. Once, Pip's bossy sister orders him to reach the Satis house, to play with Estella. He instantly falls in love with Estella, Ms. Havisham's daughter who is a grim lady. She dislikes Pip and when Pip is insulted by her, he vows to become a gentleman to win the heart of Estella.

When he becomes a teenager, he gets lucky by a fortune from a mysterious benefactor. With the money he has, Pip moves to London to become a gentleman. Meanwhile, Estella keeps rejecting Pip's advances. On his 23rd birthday, he gets to know the benefactor. It was the convict to whom he offered food when Pip was just 6 years old. Pip is disappointed to realize that the benefactor is not Miss. Havisham. Pip decides to help the ex-convict, Abel Magwitch to escape from London. Estella gets married to Pip's enemy and Abel dies before confessing a truth: Estella is his daughter.

These traumatic events affect Pip who then works in a shipping company for a few years and returns back to England, This novel has 2 endings:

• Pip meets Estella who tells about her abusive husband and about her second marriage to a poor doctor.
• A regretful Estella, who meets Pip and they end up together.