WHAT'S THE STORY?

Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations to give a highly entertaining and covertly honest portrayal of a young persons coming of age.  This novel showed all readers that in order to grow up, you have to face your fair share of rough patches. Not only rough patches in the forms of obstacles, but also within yourself and who you finally come to accept yourself to be. Dickens used a number of literary techniques to tell this story effectively including imagery and figurative language, conflict (lots of conflict), and the theme itself.