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Through the first pages of Charles Dickens novel "Great Expectations" it is effective in showing a life history of the main character Pip and presenting him to the responder. Dickens goal is to play upon the responders emotions and he achieves this through strong emotions and beliefs and the use of social comment.

The first pages of "Great Expectations" is a simple clear cut description of the working class and young children during the 18th and 19th centuries. Dickens begins to present the life of Philip ‘Pip' Pirrip who is part of this working class genre. From the opening paragraph we are given insight into the education or lack of when that young Philip's "infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip". The way in which this is told suggests that it is all in the past and Pip is reminiscing on his past.

Pip continues his early history by informing the responder about his family: mother, father, five brothers and sisters. Pip explains......

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