Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations for his magazine All the Year Round. He chose to write Great Expectations in first person remembrance. Writing in this form was very successful in capturing the reader. The theme, point of view and the characters' relationships were helpful in making it capture the reader and their interest. Charles Dickens's selection of first person narrator involves the reader in many ways.

One reason it involves the reader is because of the themes. One of the emerging themes in the beginning chapters is Pip's realization. Pip realizes that he is not among the upper class and the merchants like his uncle. His uncle Pumblechook is a wealthy seed merchant and pip realizes when he goes with his uncle that he is among the lower classes of society. Another theme in the book that involves the reader is his constant hardships in his life with...