Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers
Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers
Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers
Great Expectations is a fiction book written by Charles Dickens (1861). It is one of the his three autobiographical stories.
Chapter 1
Chapter 1 introduces us to Pip, who is the author of this autobiography. His parents died when he was a child and he has no recollection of them. He describes living in the marsh country, some twenty miles from the sea.
The author tells of a chance meeting, during his childhood, while visiting the graves of his parents, at a local churchyard. He describes, "A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mid, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared and growled; and whose teeth chattered as he seized me by the chin."
The stranger orders Pip to return the next morning with a file and wittles (food). These orders are given along with a fair degree of threatning, "You bring 'em to me or I'll have your heart and liver out. You do it, and you never dare to say a word or dare to make a sign concerning your having seen a person such as me, or any person sumever, and you shall be let to live. You fail and your heart and your liver shall be tore out, roasted and ate."
