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Mister Pip
Book by Lloyd Jones
Mister Pip (2006) is a novel by Lloyd Jones, a New Zealand author. It is named after the chief character in, and shaped by the plot of Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations.
The novel was adapted into the film Mr. Pip in 2012.
The novel is set against the backdrop of the civil war on Bougainville Island during the early 1990s. Jones had covered the war in Bougainville as a journalist, but was unable to visit.
The story is told by a young girl from Bougainville (a Pacific island) named Matilda, who has a somewhat strained relationship with her mother, Dolores.He learned about atrocities committed there from a Papua New Guinean soldier.[1]
Plot summary
The novel is the story of a girl caught in the throes of war on the island of Bougainville.
Matilda survives the war through the guidance of her devoted but strict Christian mother and her white teacher Mr Watts, and also, more importantly, through her connection with the fictional Pip, the protagonist of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.
Pip helps Matilda maintain a desire to live, especially after her mother, Mr Watt