Great Expectations - Wrapping it Up

     Finding true happiness does not mean you have to be in a certain class, or "common" or "uncommon", but instead it means taking for granted when you have in life right now and cherishing that. By having Pip as the main character bounce from different emotions and social classes, Charles Dickens really has the opportunity to convey this message of life. When I think of the high class, I think of celebrities living in giant mansions and walking on the red carpet wearing clothes that cost a fortune. The lower class is more of Charlie's family from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, eating cabbage soup for dinner and a whole family bundled up telling stories and laughing. Of course, not all people fit into the descriptions above, but just a few examples of what I envision when given the topic. Through the news, many of us hear about stars passing away from drug overdoses and suicide. This gives us as viewers a clue about how they have lived and we often wonder why they decided to limit their lives in this way. People in the middle class, however, do not have to deal with critics from magazines or looking good on weekends because most know that there will still be family to support and comfort them. From reading the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, I understand that the author is trying to say that it does not matter what class you come from, but instead that you are able to love and be loved in the community surrounding you.