Great Expectations

In the quote Pip is referring to the first day he went to visit Miss Havisham's house and met Estella. Estella altered Pip from a carefree young boy into someone that is self conscious about his social wealth and body appearance, making Pip ashamed of being poor with coarse hands and thick boots. Pip's character changed a lot after his first encounter with Estella as he became more and more ashamed of him, his family and his apprenticeship with Joe, even after being ridiculed by Estella Pip still manages to find feelings for her, Pip became more mature than he was in the beginning, not only physically but mentally as well.

This gave me a vivid memory of the times back in China, when i was in first grade. My first day at school I met this little boy in my class, and he was often bullied by other kids because his parents were poor, it was lunch and he brought some soggy Chinese buns that looked a few days over dated, when the kids saw that they went over to him and started talking trash towards him, it got so bad that a fat boy grabbed the buns and stepped on it and made him eat it, he didn't to but they forced him, and the teachers just stood there watching as it wasn't their 'business'. When the kids finally walked away feeling accomplished I went over to the kid and shared my lunch with him, we became best friends throughout that year, and he often came over to play with me because his dad did business with my dad.