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Background Summary pip’s great expectations Joe:a person of kindness and intergnity * “Great expectations” is one of ?Dicken’s most maturest works. After Dicken had experienced large part of meaningful life, he had a deeper cognition for people, environment, as well as the life which he had gone through. And all the mature cognitions are included in this writing---Great Expectations. Background Dickens Charles (John Huffam)—— (born Feb. 7, 1812, Portsmouth, Hampshire, Eng.-died June 9, 1870, Gads Hill, near Chatham, Kent) British novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. The defining moment of Dickenss life occurred when he was 12 years old. With his father in debtors prison, he was withdrawn from school and forced to work in a factory. This deeply affected the sensitive boy. Though he returned to school at 13, his formal education ended at 15. So his novels sometimes express a heightened uneasiness about the evils of Victorian industrial society. And you may see the shadow of Dickens on Pip in Great expectations Back Summary Pip Estalla love Havisham Adopted Joe gargary Brother in law Mrs joe gargery sister Couple Helped Abel Magwitch Criminal The orphan, Pip, is brought up by his sister and her kind and honest husband, Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. After experiencing the hardship in his childhood, Pip,unexpectedly gets a large fortune from an unknown man. This arouses his great expectation for his future. Pip thinks the money is from a rich, eccentric and weird old woman Havisham， who is abandoned by the bridegroom in wedding ceremony and thus hates all men. Havisham deliberately adopts a beautiful girl Estella, in order to revenge men. Pip loves Estella, and becomes a gentleman with the money. He then goes to London to find new life and is shamed of his poor brother-in-law, Joe. Later, Pip discovers that it is the escaped criminal that he has helped in his childhood rather than Havisham who offers