FOR MY PERSONAL PURPOSES (school project) http://literatureproject.com/great-expectations/index.htm On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about six years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother, father, and siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home he shares with his abusive older sister and her kind, passive husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. The next day, soldiers recapture the convict while he is engaged in a fight with another convict; the two are returned to the prison ships from which they escaped...

Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel it is a Bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. (Philip Pirrip) It is Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Here you will find key ideas about the plot, characters etc... Furthermore, some timed writes that I have done myself personally in my lessons and some annotations of some extracts with some key moments from the novel itself I hope this helps and enjoy! (I am having to put this novel as fiction but please bare in mind this is a Bildungsroman novel)