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Great Expectations By Charles Dicken: Character Analysis
In Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations Pip, the boy who gets rich and then lost it all in the end, everybody can relate too in some way. The first way is Pip like everyone else was a kid, at the beginning of the story Pip is a kid that is somewhere around 7-9 years old and gets older as the book continues. The second way is that Pip desires to better himself like everyone does. The final way is Pip desires to win the heart of someone he loves, but this someone hates

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