The novel "Great Expectations", by Charles Dickens, follows a young, socially inexperienced orphan boy called Pip, through his journey, highlighting his inability to adapt to life and the relationships around him. His story is told through the eyes of the older Pip and highlights aspects of society that Dickens disapproves of. His techniques throughout the novel help to better understand Pip's life. When Pip first meets the escaped convict in the cemetery, the strained relationship between them is obvious to the reader, but all is revealed in chapter 39, where readers meet both Pip and the convict again, and witness a reversal of role between them. Time in the novel is significant; Dickens describes it in such a way that he creates an atmosphere by using disturbing and disturbing images. This story of a lonely orphan in a confusing world offers many opportunities to consider the hardships of an impoverished childhood in the nineteenth century and how difficult it would have been for such a naive and gullible boy to survive in this period, especially with such harsh family circumstances. The theme of injustice, present throughout the film, explains some of the reasons why it has so many "high expectations". Charles Dickens' novels criticize the injustices of his time, particularly the brutal treatment of the poor in a society sharply divided by differences in wealth. He experienced that world at an early age; he saw the bitter side of the social class system and wanted it exposed, so that people could see the exploitation on which the system is based. But it presents these criticisms through the lives of the characters, Pip and Magwitch. Social status was important in the mid-nineteenth century. The rich man......middle of paper......more in his life but in doing so, he changes and becomes a worse person.Dickens has conveyed many lessons to readers one of which is that one can not judge a book from the cover. We know this because in chapter 1, the readers' reactions to the appearance of Magwitch is a disgusting and sinful creature, "a fearful man", but in chapter 39, the reactions are the opposite; we grow fond of the condemned man and see how the condemned man repays Pip by becoming his benefactor. The moral is just as relevant today because people are stereotyped and make judgment based on their appearance, as in the novel Pip is described as a shy, timid and innocent boy; however, in chapter 39 his true colors are shown. We see the snobbish Pip as an adult, where his better class and status have changed his behavior; immediately breaking the stereotype that readers had imposed on him.