What's the Story?

I believe Charles Dickens wrote Great Expections in hopes of encouraging readers to follow in the footsteps of Pip and choose who you want to be based off of what you think is really right. I think he wrote it to give the benefit of the doubt to human nature. Pip is given two main, male role models to try and model his own life after. One is truly good, while the other struggles greatly and battles his own evils. In analyzing the story, Dickens purposefully characterizes Pip's role models in a way that makes Pip decide which one of the men he turns into.

All That David Copperfield Kind of Crap

In Catcher in the Rye, when Salinger says, "All that David Copperfield kind of crap," he is referring to the back story of Holden; all the details such as where he came from and who he was in the past and whatnot.

Great Expectations Notes

-A novel of education, a coming of age story based of of the protagonist, Pip

AP Prep Post 1: Siddhartha

1. What does enlightenment look like in Siddhartha? Is it a feeling? An attitude?

Hacking My Education

I like this English class. Not because of the English content and criteria involved, but because of the dynamics of it all. Everyday I feel I learn something new. Maybe it's not about English, though there's likely some way to relate it back to that, but it's useful information for the future. I never realized how passionate we all are about different things. We have writers, doctors, lawyers, travelers, physicists, teachers, the list goes on and on. And we all come together for this one short class period and learn. Maybe it's about literature, maybe it's about each other, maybe it's about the possibility of other life in the universe. We're learning. And I think that's the most important thing to keep in mind.