Great Expectations Prose Study Coursework How Did Charles...

Great expectations: Prose study coursework How did Charles Dickens create sympathy for Pip in the opening chapter of great expectation? In this essay I’m going to be writing about a Charles Dickens book called ‘Great Expectations’ and how he successfully makes the reader feel sorry for the main character in the book named Pip; a young orphan, alone in a graveyard and how bad his life is or how bad its going to get. Dickens makes the reader feel sorry for Pip because we find out that, apart from his sister all his family is dead. Pip tells us as â€Å"I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of them...† Pip is shown in a very sad light and the reader wonders why Pip is so alone. We also learn that he had five little†¦show more content†¦Don’t cut my throat, sir...† this shows how much Pip is scared of the convict and how Pip pleads in terror to the convict not to hurt Pip also this again and again makes the reader heavyhearted and sorrowful for Pip. I can tell that the story was written a long time ago because it says in the story â€Å"all in coarse gray, with a great iron on his leg...† that’s how prisoners were treated in Charles Dickens times with great big iron cuffs on his legs which would weigh a ton but in the modern days the prisoners don’t have to wear those great big iron cuffs or those black and white stripped uniform they just wear jumpsuits. When Pip meets the convict first he gets Pip to steal food and a file (to wear down the iron cuff and cut it off) from his sister, I can show this by...†you get me a file† and it says after that â€Å"And you get me wittles† again dickens is successful at making the reader remorseful for Pip that he has to steal from his own sister and what if she sees him stealing which would make her very angry which will result in Pip getting shouted at. If I were in Pip shoes I would just was to commit suicide right then and there, if I was Pip I would be terrified and he is very young which makes it worse that a young child has to go through all of that and Charles Dickens always makes the reader feel