great expectations
Great Expectations
Great Expectations is a good book. it's by Charles Dickens and its about a boy named Pip. He lives with his horrible sister and her husband. her husband is nicer, as i recall, i think the husand is just kind of dumb and does whatever the sister tells him too. he's a blacksmith. but anyways....pip. he's a little boy and he goes out to this graveyard to visit his parents graves or something and this man who's wearing shackles (like the metal things they tie your feet up with when your in jail). pip tells him that his brother-in-law is a blacksmith or w/e and the guy like sits him on a gravestone and threatens him until pip promises to bring him a tool to help him get the shackles off and he has to bring him food too. So pip goes and gets the stuff and brings it back. So yeah, that's how it starts and then it goes into the rest of the book...and there's this old lady named mrs habbersham or something and she a niece or something who lives with her and pip is in love with the niece...and the neice's name is...Estella. And they kind of grow up together I guess, but then pip gets called away by some benefactor who is going to let him go to school or something so he goes away and i think he starts working for a lawyer or something, and they become friends and it ends up that his mysterious benefactor is the convict who he helped all those years before. He's devestated. His sister dies and Estella marries someone else. At the end, the like see each other again or something...i don't remember.
Basically, the point of this book is that Pip always has expectations about what he thinks will make him happy. First he thinks that being a blacksmith will, then he thinks that becoming a gentleman will, then it turns out that his benefactor is a convict instead of something prestigous, and he doesn't get Estella and his one real friend, his sister's husband, he ends up rejecting him because he doesn't think he's refined enough. So he throws away everything good in his life for something fake thinking it will make him happy and it never does, so he has great expectations about life that are unfulfilled. But I guess the end with like the possibility of being wiht Estella could either be a happy ending or just another great expectation that will never be fulfilled.
Great Expectations is a good book. it's by Charles Dickens and its about a boy named Pip. He lives with his horrible sister and her husband. her husband is nicer, as i recall, i think the husand is just kind of dumb and does whatever the sister tells him too. he's a blacksmith. but anyways....pip. he's a little boy and he goes out to this graveyard to visit his parents graves or something and this man who's wearing shackles (like the metal things they tie your feet up with when your in jail). pip tells him that his brother-in-law is a blacksmith or w/e and the guy like sits him on a gravestone and threatens him until pip promises to bring him a tool to help him get the shackles off and he has to bring him food too. So pip goes and gets the stuff and brings it back. So yeah, that's how it starts and then it goes into the rest of the book...and there's this old lady named mrs habbersham or something and she a niece or something who lives with her and pip is in love with the niece...and the neice's name is...Estella. And they kind of grow up together I guess, but then pip gets called away by some benefactor who is going to let him go to school or something so he goes away and i think he starts working for a lawyer or something, and they become friends and it ends up that his mysterious benefactor is the convict who he helped all those years before. He's devestated. His sister dies and Estella marries someone else. At the end, the like see each other again or something...i don't remember.
Basically, the point of this book is that Pip always has expectations about what he thinks will make him happy. First he thinks that being a blacksmith will, then he thinks that becoming a gentleman will, then it turns out that his benefactor is a convict instead of something prestigous, and he doesn't get Estella and his one real friend, his sister's husband, he ends up rejecting him because he doesn't think he's refined enough. So he throws away everything good in his life for something fake thinking it will make him happy and it never does, so he has great expectations about life that are unfulfilled. But I guess the end with like the possibility of being wiht Estella could either be a happy ending or just another great expectation that will never be fulfilled.
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