How Does Charles Dickens Create an Effective Opening to "Great Expectations"?

Charles Dickens must create an effective opening because these stories would be serialised, so the opening was most important because there would be long gaps between the publications of these chapters, so therefore he had to keep the readers attention enough to make them want to read the following publication. This would be successful if there was enough tension built in the first chapter/publication.
The beginning introduces the characters, which consist of a narrative voice, Philip Pirrip who is the more mature and adult of the Philip Pirrip (Pip). …