GE+essay++mhammond

As a child, the world is just one big place that one’s been thrown into the middle of. Like all children, Pip is curious. His thoughts wonder and he is free to explore a world of his imagination. After he spends time with Miss Havisham, he sees another kind of life style which sends him diving head first into the image of himself one day becoming a gentleman. After a while, he even becomes embarrassed to be seen as a blacksmith. Pip receives money to become a gentleman; his childhood dream is at last coming true. He travels to London meeting new people and learning how to be a gentleman. While in London, the new lifestyle begins to get to his head. He begins to think of himself as better than all the rest. Joe comes to visit and Pip is very rude and cold. As he nears the end of his teenage years, Pip begins to realize how horrible he has been. He feels guilty. Adult Pip has a change of heart. He wants to make amends. Pip is regretful of how he treated Joe and all of his other loved ones, but never really mends their relationships. Eventually, Pip reacquaints himself with a convict he had helped as a child. He learns the convict was the source of the money he had received to become a gentleman. Pip feels obliged to help the convict in his difficult times. Pip also learns when the convict told him of the money, that he and Estella were not meant to be married. This conclusion made him regret even more the mistakes he made in his lifetime. When Dickens was writing Great Expectations, he said a lot about the ability to make or break oneself. Through out the story, he shows his readers how making decisions now can affect the future. He shows Pip making good and bad decisions during his life and the effects they had on him in his relationships, jobs, and money. It shows how Pip makes and breaks himself several times based off the decisions he made. Though Pip finds the light again when he is older, the past always hangs over his shoulders. The coldness in his teenage years made scars on many of the people he loved. Eventually others would realize he had changed but the thought of him as the selfish arrogant man he had been still stayed in their minds.
 * //Great Expectations//** is a story about a young boy whose decisions, as he grows up, change his lifestyle and relationships. Pip, the young boy, begins as just a troubled boy trying to find himself, then later on into a young man with many regrets. The decisions he made through his life affected him in many ways, good and bad.