1. Find what “Great Expectations” is (describe).
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"Great
Expectations" is a Charles Dickens's thirteen novel and it´s the second
novel to be narrated in "first person". The novel has the typical
themes of Dickens like richness and poverty, love and rejection and the triumph
of the good over the evil. It's about an
orphan named Pip, the main character, and it develops in England at the Victorian
age. In the novel, with the anonymous benefactor’s help, Pip travels to London
and becomes a gentleman. Pip thought that
the benefactor was Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who lives with her
adoptive daughter, Estella, with whom Pip is delighted. But he doesn’t know that the real benefactor
is a convict that threatened him when he was a child.
The story
starts with Pip running away from his house to the cemetery, where her mother and
father are buried. In this place, he is threatened by a convict who scars him
and obliged to steal food and a file to throw off from the shackles. Pip runs
to his house to seek the food and file that he needs, so his grumpy sister and
her husband are introduced. She
constantly complains of the burden of raising Pip and her husband, a
blacksmith, is always defending him from her. At the next day, the convict is
recaptured and returned to the prison. In London, Miss Havisham
asks Pip's uncle
Pumblechook to find a boy to play with her adoptive daughter, Estella, and
Pip's chosen to go to Miss Havisham's place.
· 2. Your
relationship with “Great Expectations” (you knew, you didn’t know, had no idea,
know a little, etc.
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I knew the story through a tv series when I
was in high school and time after my mom bought the book for me to read it. I
started reading the book, but for some reason I always began to read another
and another and another book and always left Great Expectations aside. I read
One Hundred years of Solitude again, some mangas (Japanese comic books),
Vampires Chronic by Anne Rice and an Emilie Autumn book called "The asylum
for wayward Victorian girls". I
have not taken up the book, although I really want to do. I think I like the style
writing of Charles Dickens, rather, the kind of stories that he tells and the
characters too. Once, I saw a movie without know who was the director or if it was
based on a book story. Sometime after, I knew the movie was called Nicholas
Nickleby and it was based on a Charles Dickens novel. That novel tells the
story of Nicholas Nickleby and his family. When the Nicholas's father dies,
they go to London to seek the only person who can help them, the Nicholas's
uncle, Ralph Nickleby. He is the antagonist of the novel, who will be enveloped
in a sad and ironic end. Although both stories are surrounded by a dark and
miserable atmosphere, they finish taking a smile from you. Dickens had an idea
of what was injustice in society and it can be compared today with what we
think is an injustice.
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3. What
are your “Great Expectations” for this semester (family, studies, romance,
etc…)
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My great expectations for this semester...in my
studies I want to make the "big jump", I mean, I want to know which
is my path between the different subjects that there're in architecture and be really
good on it. Talking about good projects and good ideas in the workshop, I
always have been in the middle; I have never repeated, but my highest grade
point average doesn't exceed the 5.2 and it was a great mark for me. On the
other hand, with my family...I would like to see my brother getting better from
his "disease", although what my brother has is not a disease.
It's something psychological. I want
good health for my dad, that my younger brothers have a good year with the
school and friends, and I hope my mom be happy and doesn't have to work so
much. And i really want to my boyfriend can do his best in his first job that
has to do with what he studied. I hope to celebrate our fifth anniversary with
my boyfriend and keep things as well or better as they are now. I would like to
take advantage of this subject (English 4) to learn more and finally be able to
put the shame aside and practice speaking in English, I say this because I'm
extremely shy when It's time to talk, so I want to beat that. And finally, I want to be better with the
violin and make vibrato, what is very difficult.
