Report on Great Expectations Key words: report, Charles Dickens, great expectation, Pip, Estella
Abstract: The story happened in England in 19th century. His parents died when Pip was only five years old, and he then lived with his elder sister and her husband. One night when he was looking at his parents’ tombstones, an escaped convict sprung up. Pip helped him with some food, and he was grateful. But at last he was taken by the policemen.
One day Pip was taken to the Satis House, the home of the wealthy dowager Miss Havisham, who was both very rich and eccentric. This old lady was abandoned by her husband when they were going to married, and she lived in sufferings and memories for many years. During his visit, he met a beautiful girl named Estella, who treated him coldly and contemptuously. Nevertheless, he fell in love with her and dreamed of becoming a wealthy gentleman so that he might be worthy of her.
One day a lawyer came to Pip and brought him a strange news: a secret benefactor has given Pip a large fortune, and Pip must come to London immediately to begin his education as a gentleman.
Pip came to London, learned how to communicate, how to dance, and how to become a real gentleman…
摘要：故事发生在19世纪的英国。在皮普还是个15岁的孩子时，父母双亡，和姐姐、姐夫生活在一起。圣诞节前，皮普到墓地去悼念父母，遇到了越狱犯麦格维奇。皮普为他拿来了蛋糕充饥，令麦格维奇非常感动，但最后他还是被警察带走了。
圣诞过后，皮普被邀请到村里最富有的哈维汉姆小姐家做客。这个老妇人新婚当天丈夫没有出现，从此便再也没有脱下婚纱，多年来一直生活在回忆里。尽管她拥有财富，却从没有得到过幸福，因此一直活在愤恨中，性格怪癖。当皮普怀着忐忑不安的心情踏入这所老房子时，遇到了哈维汉姆小姐收养的女孩埃斯特拉，从此便一发不可收拾地爱上了她。但埃斯特拉是
个傲慢又刻薄的女孩，根本不把皮普放在眼里。这令皮普很伤心，他暗自下决心要成为一名绅士好让埃斯特拉不再歧视自己。
机会终于来了。尽管皮普的姐夫只是一个铁匠，没有钱送他上学，但在几年后，突然有不愿意透露姓名的人提出资助皮普到伦敦去过上层社会的生活。皮普满心欢喜地来到伦敦，学习如何社交、如何跳舞、如何成为一名真正的绅士。此时的皮普已明显的感觉到自己无法再和做铁匠的姐夫顺畅沟通了，尽管是姐夫把他养大，感情也非常好....
Main idea:
First, I want to give a brief introduction to you about the author of Great Expectation.
Charles·Dickens(whole name is Charles John Huffam Dickens) was born on February 7,1812, and spent the first 9 years of his life living in the coastal region of Kent, a country in southeast England. Dickens’s father, John, was a k ind and likable man, but he was incompetent with money and accumulated tremendous debts throughout his life. When Dickens was nine, his family moved to London. When he was twelve, his father was arrested and taken to the debtors’ prison. Dickens’s mother moved his seven brothers and sisters into prison with their father. But she arranged for the young Charles to live alone outside the prison and work with other children pasting labels on bottles in a blacking warehouse. Dickens found the three months he spent apart from his family highly miserable. Not only the job itself torturous, but also he considered himself too good for it, earning the contempt of the other children. After his father was released from the prison, Dickens returned to school. He eventually became a law clerk, then a court reporter, and finally a novelist. His first novel, the Pickwick Papers, became a huge popular success when Dickens was only twenty-five. He published his works extensively and was considered a literary celebrity until his death in 1870.
Representative works of the writer: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Oliver Twist, The Old Curiosity Shop, Hard Times, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend.
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