Comparison And Contrast Dickens' Oliver Twist And Pip

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she's got a Tickler with
her.”

At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my
waistcoat round and round, and looked in great depression at the fire.
(Chapter II)
Pip is brought up by his sister “by hand”, and that has become a
perfect reason for his sister to abuse him. When he starts to see Miss
Havisham, he is looked down by Estella, who would abuse him mentally by
saying the meanest words.
She came back, with some bread and meat and little mug of beer.
She put he mug down on the stones of the yard, and gave me the bread and
meat without looking at me, as insolently as if I were a dog in disgrace.
I was humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry….(Chapter VIII)
However, all the ill treatment from Estella has triggered Pip into
becoming a gentleman so Estella would look up to him.
Although Oliver and Pip have had a rough childhood, but at the end,
they both remained pure and innocent. Oliver is first at the orphanage,
after ...

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