The social status of a man is a major question of life in the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. In the story Pip keeps worrying about becoming common. After his dreaded nightmare came alive he received money from someone and was set out to London. On his quest to become uncommon, intelligent, and rich, he runs into a few people who are common and remind him of how he used to be. A book in relation to trying to rise to the top and is similar the concept of being uncommon is Rocket Boys. In this story a boy's father has him set out for coal mining but he wished for something else, to work the latest rocket models as a job. So he gathers a bunch of friends to help build rockets and soon get them to fly. In this magnificent non-fiction story the boy slowly raises to the top, becoming uncommon.
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