Great Expectations All Wrapped Up. Last week :)

I think it's a sort of universal experience for someone to be lost in their life for an amount of time, like trying to find your true self. Charles Dickens uses Pip's family and friends to show how the story usually goes. A good example of this is most peoples' teenage years. The kind of generic story is kids saying to their parents "Just leave me alone." Which, I've never really seen or done that, but I've definitely felt it! When some one is trying to go off on their own and try to understand them self better, and they become lost, or get into trouble, what they need most is not to be alone, but to be around the people who know them the best and are the closest with. I think Dickens was probably realizing that the best time periods in his life were not filled with solitude, but swarmed with family and friends. In general, people tend to feel better when they know that there is a net to catch them when they fall, or friends to share laughs with, because laughing by yourself isn't that fun.The key message within Great Expectations is that friends and family make tough times better, and good times great.