Charles Dickens is perhaps the most famous English novelist of the Victorian era and is renowned for his memorable characters and biting social commentaries. In Great Expectations, he tells the story of an orphaned boy, whose full name is___________ but who is known as Pip, from the age of seven until adulthood. Pip lives in the care of his adult________ who is married to the blacksmith, Joe Gargery. Having no recollection of his parents, he can only imagine what they must have been like from the inscriptions on their___________. Thus, he comes to think of his father as a stout, dark man with curly black hair, and his mother as_______________________. As for his brothers, all of whom died very young, Pip cannot help but imagine that they were born on their backs with their hands in_______________________________ and that they kept them there for all of their short lives.

Question

Fill in the five missing blank spaces with the missing correct words.

Answer 1

- Philip Pirrip
- sister
- gravestones
- a pale young gentleman with red eyes
- their trousers pockets