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How would Great Expectations translate into our culture? Describe how the novel's themes, plot or characters would correlate with today's world.
 * Then and Now **

A lot of Charles Dickens’s //Great Expectations// translates into our culture today, with characters actions and attitudes and similar plots. For Example, Pip being scared of the convicts the first time and, Estella being snobbish and not knowing how to love. Also Joe’s protectiveness of Pip and always wanting to help Pip even when he was being mean to him.

Dicken's starts the novel out with pip visiting his parents grave, when suddenly BOOM the convicts come up to him and are like “we want some food or we'll eat you. Nom nom nom." When he returns home he shoves bread down his pants to give to the cannibal convicts. Today if convicts were threatening people, our society would call the police or get help instead of doing what they say. The average American owns at least two guns and keeps them in their house. The jails wouldn't have convicts chained up outside without someone guarding them, to not escape.

Estella was an orphan disowned by her parents to be adopted by a crazy Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham doesn’t believe in love, and thinks Estella would be a good heartbreaker. Estella grew up with without loving or being loved so how can anyone be expected to like her? But Pip does, though she tries to warn him she isn't meant to love, he keeps trying which makes her like him a little more. Today there are many kids that are orphaned but most of them know how to love and want to be loved, despite the parental problems but they still grow up in a normal manner.

Joe loves Pip unconditionally they have a good father/son relationship. Until Pip starts rising in class and pushing him away Joe is very hurt by the way Pip treats him now however, he takes it calmly and still sticks up for Pip. Joe has always protected Pip from his sister abusing him, and he tries to help keep him out of trouble. There are alot of good hearted people in the world, who do the same kinds of things Joe does and obtain things back in return. It makes a good person