First 10-15 pgs. of Dickens.

In the first ten to fifteen pages of Dickens novel "Great Expectations" we learn about a young boy named Pip. In the begging he tells how he came to be called Pip because he couldn't really pronounce his real name. By the way he is described and how he has very little knowledge of certain things show how he's from a lower class. He's in a church yard and meets and old man who tells him to get him good and a file or else he would feed him to the boy. Pip runs home to his sister where he gets in trouble and he takes some food. He also sneaks into his brother in laws tools and steals a file. At the end he runs back to the church yard. From this we learn that the young boy is poverty stricken with his family. This relates to Dickens by how Dickens grew up himself in the lower class.