The book review of Great Expectations

Great Expectations tells us the story of what happened in the three important stages of Pip's life from the age of seven. At first, Pip depended on his sister and brother-in-law. His sister used to live mostly as a tigress and his brother-in-law Joe was a good man. By chance, Pip met the fugitive Magwitch in the cemetery and he stole food from his home to the fugitive, which also laid the stage for the later adventure. After that, Pip was summoned to the manor by Miss Havisham. In the manor, she felt the gap between the poor and the rich, and gradually looked down on his family and friends around him. A few years later, A “luck” fell down on Pip. A famous lawyer from London visited. He claimed that he was entrusted by an anonymous person to take Pip to London for a high-class education, and Pip would finally receive a valuable inheritance. Under this circumstances, Pip was happy to receive this chance. Slowly, Pip began to pay attention to a good life and the superficial scenery, which led to a high debt. Pip's dislike of Joe, a relative as well as a best friend, makes me see the influence of vanity on a person. In this part, I see the flattering faces of some snobbish people and the sincerity of some kind people as always. Later, the benefactor appeared, and Pip was hit hard. The "great future" he expected in his heart was an acquaintance who gave him. Although he became vain, his conscience was still alive. He tried his best to help his benefactor, as a fugitive escaping from danger. But he had no choice but to be tricked by fate. In the end, the fugitive was arrested and finally died. He also lost his inheritance. The kind-hearted Joe helped Pip pay off part of his debts and took care of him to recover. His previous good deeds silently to his good friends in turn helped him. Years later, he and his good friend Herbert did some businesses in the East and later returned to their hometown. In the ruins of the memories, Pip met the Estella again. Falling in love with Estella leaves us an imaginative ending. I like the ending paragraph very much. “We walked, hand in hand, out of the old garden. As the morning mist had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so the evening mist was rising now, and in the clear moonlight I saw no shadow of another separation from her.” Great Expecations is not only a novel, but a book full of lessons and morals. Pip's life is just like all of us, it goes up, when Pip got his money, and it goes down, when Pip was lost in his paths. Great Expectations isn't a significant or legendary novel in my opinion, in fact, it's a guide for our life.