Great Expectations, Barnaby Rudge & Oliver Twist
Great Expectations, Barnaby Rudge & Oliver Twist On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about seven years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard, while visiting…
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Great Expectations, Barnaby Rudge & Oliver Twist
On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about seven years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard, while visiting the graves of his parents and siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file. Pip now lives with his abusive elder sister and her kind husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith.
During Christmas Dinner that evening, at the moment Pip's theft is about to be discovered, soldiers arrive and ask Joe to repair some shackles. Early on Christmas morning Pip returns with the file, a pie and brandy. Joe and Pip accompany them as they recapture the convict who is fighting with another escaped convict.
The first convict confesses to stealing food from the smithy.A year or two later, Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who still wears her old wedding dress and lives as a recluse in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Mr Pumblechook, a