Great Expectations

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Plot Summary

Follows pips childhood and adulthood

Blacksmiths apprentice in a country village

Gets a large amount of money from an unknown benefactor

moves to London and enters high society

Thinks money has come from Miss Havisham but is wrong

Key Plot Details

Pip meets Magwitch

Pip visits Satis House

Pip comes into money

Pip travels to London to become a gentleman

Magwitch returns from abroad

Miss Havisham gets burnt

Magwitch escape plan fails and he dies

Pip returns home and to Estella

The young Pip meets and assists the escaped convict Magwitch on the marshes near his home where he lives with his sister and Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith.

Pip goes to Satis house where he meets Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter Estella. He returns on several occasions.

After working as a blacksmith's apprentice for a number of years, Pip grows up and is one day informed that he has come into a great deal of money. He assumes that this has come from Miss Havisham.

Pip travels to London where he becomes a gentleman. He grows increasingly fond of Estella but neglects he remain contact with his family.

Magwitch illegally returns from abroad and announces that he is Pip's secret benefactor.

Estella plans to marry Bentley Drummle and Miss Havisham is involved in a terrible fire.

After Pip unsuccessfully tries to get Magwitch out of the country, Magwitch dies in prison and Pip loses his fortune.

Pip now older and wiser, returns to his family home and meets Estella once more.

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