why have we been blessed? Knowing the source of your luck will help determine the reason for it. Unexpected Expectations Even Charles Dickens knew as much. In his classic novel set in the mid-nineteenth century, Dickens tells us Pip’s story of Great Expectations in the first person so we feel what Pip felt and see the world through his eyes. An orphan being raised by his sister, who was twenty years older, and her husband, Pip was a sort of precursor to Huck Finn—a poor, uneducated yet cunning and resourceful