Pip Pirrip is the protagonist and narrator in the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. ... Lonely because of isolation from the everyday outside world and "normal family-ties" (Coles Notes 101), Pip often visits his parents in the churchyard and explores the marshes. ... (120) His wishes finally come true when he comes into "great expectations" from a mysterious benefactor. ... But I saw him collapse as his master rubbed me out with his hands, and my first decided experience of the stupendous power of money was that it had morally laid upon it's back, Trabb's boy. (142) P...

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In that early period of his life, he tried to imitate what he read, wrote a tragedy founded upon one of the "Tales of the Genii," and acquired great fame among his associates as a story teller. ... In his wretched condition there were numerous chances for him to become a rogue or a vagabond, but he survived these dangers and became a great novelist. ... Dickens took great pride in meeting deadlines and beating other reporters to key facts, and his sharp accuracy was well respected. ... First he reported for the "True Sun," then he worked at the "Mirror of Parliament", founded by his uncl...

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