It's Over!

Okay, not that you'd know by the title, but for my last blog post (hopefully) about Great Expectations I am supposed to be writing about theme. That's kind of hard to write about because the book had so many messages it was trying to get across to the reader. I think the main theme though was that the only way to be happy is to keep the people who love you close to you and not to choose to surround yourself with people based on their wealth and social class. Kind of simple. And there are other more complicated themes in the book, but this is the one that stood out for me the most. In the beginning Pip is not thrilled with his meager life but he is content because he has Joe, his only friend who loves him very much. Pip loses his happiness when he meets Miss Havisham and moves to London. Pip only regains his happiness when he meets Magwitch, his "convict" and benefactor. Pip's friendship with Magwitch is the first one Pip has made not based on wealth or class since moving to London. Pip ultimately learns his lesson in the end and returns to the true friends he abandoned. The end. People are supposed to learn from Pips mistakes that money cannot lead to happiness, only caring friends.