Resumo de Great Expectations

Pip, an
orphan living in Kent, visits his parents? tombstone in a cemetery. Suddenly,
an escaped convict emerges from behind the tombstone and orders Pip to fetch
some food and a pile for his leg irons. Pip obeys, but the police captures the
convict soon. The convict protects Pip claiming to have stolen the items
himself.

One day,
Pip is taken by his Uncle Pumblechook to play at Satis House, where he meets a
wealthy dowger Miss Havisham and a gorgeous young girl named Estella.
Unfortunately Estella treats him contemptuously, but in spite of it he falls
for her and starts dreaming of becoming a wealthy gentleman so that he might be
worthy of her. He even hopes that Miss Havisham intends to make him a gentleman
and marry him to Estella. Alas, his dreams are blown up when Miss Havisham
helps him to fill out the necessary papers for him to work in his family
business as a common laborer. With Miss Havisham?s guidance, Pip begins to work
in his brother-in-law?s care, Joe who is a village blacksmith. Pip is not satisfied
with the work in the forge. He meets a kind Biddy, who is helping him, and
malicious Orlick. One night, Joe?s sister is viciously attacked and becomes a
mute invalid. Form her signals, Pip suspects that Orlick was responsible for
the attack.

One day,
Pip receives the news from Jaggers, a lawyer, about a secret benefactor who has
given Pip a large fortune, and Pip must come to London to start his education
as a gentleman. Pip believes that Miss Havisham is his secret benefactor, and
she wants him to marry Estella.

In London,
Pip learns how to become a gentleman under the Pockets? supervision. Therefore,
Pip receives his education on a good level. When Pip is twenty-one he obtains
an income from his fortune and helps Herbert Pocket buy the way into business
he has chosen. Herbert and Pip begin to lead an undisciplined life in London,
running up debts. Orlick appears in Pip?s life, employed as Miss Havisham?s
porter, but is fired by Jaggers after Pip reveals his unsavory past. Meanwhile,
Miss Joe dies, and Pip is in despair. Several years go by, until one night a
familiar figure barges into Pip?s room. It?s the convict, Magwitch, who tells
Pip that he is his secret benefactor. He tells Pip that his boyhood kindness in
the cemetery made an impression on him, and he decided to dedicate his life to
make Pip a gentleman.

Appalled
Pip feels morally bound to help Magwitch escape London, as the convict is
pursued by the police and by Compeyson, his former partner in crime. A
complicated mystery begins when Pip discovers that Compeyson abandoned Miss
Havisham at the alter and the young Estella is Magwitch daughter.

As the
weeks pass, Pip sees the good in Magwitch and begins to care for him deeply.
Before the Magwitch?s attempt escape, Estella marries an upper-class lout named
Bently Drummle. During the visit in Satis House, Miss Havisham begs Pip for
forgiveness, for she feels sorry for the way she treated him in the past. Later
that day, there is an accident in which Miss Havisham goes up in flames. She
survives but becomes an invalid.

The time
comes to help Magwitch. Before the escape attempt, Pip is on the shadowy
meeting where he encounters Orlick, who is on the verge of killing Pip.
Luckily, Herbert comes with his friends and saves Pip?s life. Pip and Herbert
hurry back to effect Magwitch?s escape. They try to sneak him down the river on
a rowboat, but they are discovered by the police who Compeyson tipped off.
During the fight between Magwitch and Compeyson, Compeyson is drown. Magwitch
is sentenced to death and Pip loses his fortune. Magwitch feels that his
sentence is God?s forgiveness and dies at peace. Pip falls ill, Joe comes to
London to care for him. He also gives the news from home. Orlick, after robbing
Pumblechook, in now in jail, Miss Havisham has died and left most of her
fortune to Pockets, Biddy has taught Joe how to reaad and write. After Joe
leaves, Pip decides to return home and marry Biddy, but when he arrives he
discovers that she and Joe have already married.

Pips goes abroad with Herbert to work in the
mercantile trade. Returning home many years later, Pip encounters Estella, who
is a widow now, in a ruined garden at Satis house. She was treated badly by her
husband. Pip discovers that Estella?s coldness has been replaced by sad
kindness. Leaving the garden hand in hand, Pip believes that they will never
part again.

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