Chickmen

How does dickens writing gain sympathy for pip and keep the reader engadged in the opening chapter of great expectations

Charles dickens was born in 1812 in Portsmouth. When dickens was a young boy his dad was imprisoned for dept which left the family no choice accept to send the young bright dickens off to a factory to help support the family this part of his life was the most defining. When dickens grew older he write novels and books to make money and because not many people in them days could read you charged people to hear him read out a his books he only read out chapters of his book so people could come back and pay more money he travelled all around the country to read his books.

The opening off the first chapter goes right in and engages the reader by feeling sympathy for pip because he’s talking to himself and also he cant pronounce his own name correctly so he decides to call himself pip instead of his real name,pirrip   “I called myself pip” also this stresses his youth and innocence. Pip starts to talk about his family when sitting by their gravestones in a churchyard this also makes the reader feel sympathy for pip and then he starts to imagine how his family would look in their coffins he thinks his father has curly black hair because of the way the writing is on his gravestone and he thinks that all his 5 brothers are cutely tucked up in their coffins “the shape of the letters on my fathers ,gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man with curly black hair”. This also stresses the fact that not many people lived at a old age in Victorian times especially poor people who didn’t have as many things to keep them healthy and the listing of his brothers names give them an identity so they are not nameless the strengthens how lonely he is and he also gains sympathy. Dickens captures the imagination in pip to derive his parents from the tombstone inscription “ At this point in the story Victorian women would have been very sad and upset...