'How do the events in chapter 8 forge Pip's great expectations?'
             Great Expectations was written by Charles Dickens who was one of Britain's most successful writers. He was born in Portsmouth on 7th February 1812; he was the second of eight children in his family. Dickens novel Great Expectations reflects the attitude of the early nineteenth century, were wealth and poor divided England. People with wealth had power in the society, but people who were poor had no say in anything that went on and were just disregarded as nobody's. Dickens use's Pip to illustrate how people were manipulated by the people who had the wealth and power in the society. In Great Expectations Pip's desire to better himself, to become a gentleman is born of some innate stirring. Rather he finds himself wanting to get out of the world in which he has lived since birth only after his encounters with Estella and Miss Havisham
             Great Expectations is a novel about a young boy called Phillip Pirrip (Pip) who's mother dies while giving birth to him and is grudgingly brought up by his older sister and her husband Mr. Joe Gargery. Joe is a very loving person and cares for Pip but his sister does not care or love him and this leaves him vulnerable to the manipulations of the adults who enter his life. One day in Pip's life changed everything, it was just an ordinary day or so it seemed until a man who went by the name of Mr. Pumplechook who is a distant relative brought some news to the Gargery household, Pip had been chosen by Miss. Havisham who as one of the society's wealthy and powerful people to go to her house and play with her ward Estella. Before Pip's visit to Miss. Havisham though he stayed the night with Mr. Pumplechook who makes Pip sleep in the attic and barely feeds him, he gives him dry bread and watered milk while he eats a bacon roll. This makes Pip even more vulnerable because it make...