So I goggled why Charles Dickens wrote "Great Expectations" and it explained that he actually had a magazine that had all kinds of featured stories were in it and this story was one of the popular ones in the magazine. "Great Expectations" was actually one of his last books, his 13th book to be precise. He would write a few chapters per week and then his readers would read it and were very intrigued with it and then he took in all their advice & criticism and made a book out of what he already had. I think the literary techniques led me to this conclusion because of allegories Dickens used of what Great Expectations really turn out to be which are also hyperbole. I also believe that Dickens used metaphors to show what life is really about. The conclusions I led to is the story is definitely a coming of age story of the main character, Pip.
Allegories: The title of "Great Expectations" because the great expectations we have might not be so great when they happen.
Metaphors: Pip's name is a metaphor for his condition. The word "pip" means "seed," and in the novel's beginning he is planted in a rather depressing garden
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