I favoured fast-paced and gritty stories and didn't understand the love for Austen later cured | Heaven knows we never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of the earth, overlaying our hard hearts |
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I barely remember doing any homework | The book was assigned for English class, and we were supposed to start reading it over the Christmas break |
There are so many unique, well drawn characters in this story alone that it is constantly amazing to me that he was able to so regularly populate his novels with such a numerous supply.
If she wounds you, love her | Figure out the characters first, and then, once you've gotten to know and even care for them or hate them , you will be hooked on the plot because you will want to know what happens to these people who you've invested so much feeling into |
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There are blackguards, adventures, near death experiences, swindlers, agitations both real and imagined, and descriptions that make the reader savor the immersion in the black soot and blacker hearts of Victorian society | If she tears your heart to pieces,— and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper,— love her, love her, love her! He, in his innocence, longed to be a gentleman, but when he has the chance he forgets everything thing he is |
I think I mostly felt it was long because I had to read slower than I would have otherwise because the writing was more complex and I wanted to make sure I was understanding what was happening and fully understanding each sentence | He had a much larger story percolating in his head, but simply out of room to print it |
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Sure, those "classics" may have taught me something about literary analysis, symbolic patterns, and the like, but I couldn't appreciate it for its complexity until I was older | But something happened in Gra How Great Expectations changed my own expectations Great Expectations changed my life |
The top hat wearing men of London with all their fine china and ceremony? So, if you read Great Expectations in middle school, high school, or college, but haven't picked it up since, I urge you to do so.
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