More Pip stuff.

Well...I still can't believe Pip isn't over Estella. After all of the things she's done to him in the past ten years and is still doing to him, you'd think he'd finally wake up when he's 23 years old! It seems as Pip gets older he's getting less and less mature, maybe it's his new "gentleman" way of life. I honestly do think he was more mature when he was 11...he had more common sense back then. At least he accepted back then that it probably wouldn't work between him and Estella.

I think Pip's expectations of the gentlemen life were too high. It turns out Estella isn't rushing over to him just because he's a "gentleman" now.

Pip = annoying.

It's true, he has to be the most annoying character i've ever read in a book. Ok, maybe not...but, he's definitely up there.

Joe is probably my favorite character in Great Expectations because he has given Pip so much and is one of the few people in Pip's life who seems to truly care about him, yet...he throws it all away to go to London and is upset because Joe isn't wealthy enough? Why? Pip is so selfish, I think maybe one of the reasons I don't like the plot too much is because I hate the main character...Pip.

Great Expectations - first thoughts

Right now I'm at Chapter 13 in Great Expectations. I have a bit of a mixed reaction on the book, some parts of it I really like, and some parts I really dislike.

I'll start off with the positive- I really, really like the descriptions in this book. The way Dickens describes the characters, the plots, the actions...ect, is extremely unique & actually really fun to read. An example would be on page 90 in Chapter 11, when he is describing the fight scene. I love this quote especially: "The second greatest surprise I had ever encountered in my life was seeing him on his back again, looking at me through a black eye". This is so much more interesting to me then a generic "I punched him on the ground and gave him a black eye" line that you could find in any other book. Another example of this great description method would be on page 49 - "It was a dry, cold night, and the wind blew keenly, and the frost was white and hard. A man would die tonight of laying out in the marshes, I thought". The line about the man dying is something I don't think many other authors would put in their books, but I think it adds so much to that description.

On the other hand, I think the characters are very generic and boring, the complete opposite of the descriptions. Pip is the normal "orphan boy" you can find in many stories, Estella is the mean little girl who always picks on the main character, Joe is the comforting parent-like character...in my opinion, the characters are not very interesting and very generic. I'm not sure if that's the point or not, to make the characters generic, but I find them to be very boring.

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P.S. - Pit is amazing. :)

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