Great Expectations | Topics for Discussion
1. Pip is an orphan boy, a blacksmith's assistant living with his sister and her husband in a small English village. How does Pip visualize his dead parents? Does the boy suffer from want and privation? Why is Pip's life with his sister so unpleasant? Would you agree that Dickens takes pains to present young Pip with great sympathy?
2. Why is Pip's confrontation with the escaped convict traumatic? What circumstances make this vivid scene in the marshes so terrifying? Although the reader does not realize it at the time, this event is central to the story. Why?
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