In these two week, I chose one of Charles Dickens' famous novel ,Great Expectations. The action of the story takes place from Christmas Eve, 1812, when the leading character is about seven years old, to the winter of 1840.
Great Expectations is written in a semi-autobiographical style, and the story of the orphan Pip, tracing his life from his early days of childhood until adulthood. The story can also be considered semi-autobiographical of Dickens, like much of his work, drawing on his experiences of life and people.
The story is divided into three phases of Pip's life expectations. I will tell you the first phase in this journal. In the first expectation, Pip lives a humble existence with his ill-tempered older sister and her strong but gentle husband, Joe Gargery. Pip is satisfied with this life and his warm friends until he is hired by an embittered wealthy woman, Miss Havisham, as an occasional companion to her and her beautiful but haughty adopted daughter, Estella. From that time on, Pip aspires to leave behind his simple life and be a gentleman. After years as companion to Miss Havisham and Estella, he spends more years as an apprentice to Joe, so that he may grow up to have a future working as a blacksmith. This life is suddenly turned upside down when he is visited by a London lawyer, Mr. Jaggers, who informs Pip that he is coming into the "great expectations" of handsome property and be trained to be a gentleman on the behalf of an anonymous benefactor.
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