"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Going along through the book it has been very difficult to understand some words but so far, I've been considering a dictionary to help me understand situations that Pip has encountered while being poor as well as rising to his fortune. I think that Charles Dickens has been very wise to choose the various words that he uses. They are very powerful and strong. They have many different meanings to them but when I'm reading the book I immediately have a clue of what the meaning of the word will be. This uncommon vocabulary to me is rare, but as I get used to the book more, I start understanding phrases a lot better. “Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man’s a blacksmith, and one’s a whitesmith, and one’s a goldsmith, and one’s a coppersmith. Diwisions among such must come, and must be met as they come.” This quote is a great example of what I'm seeing all throughout the book. With this quote Joe is talking to Pip about how there are different levels of people and how they are determined. Since Pip is now a gentleman and really doesn't know what the whole meaning of being a gentleman is, he is reassured by his brother in law whom raised him until he could.