Great Expectations

I chose this book because my partner decided to read A Tale Of Two Cities. But on further research of the plots of the two stories, Great Expectations seemed to have a more attractive plot. It seemed a lot more interesting then the other, so I decided to stick with it.

 I think that it' called Great Expectations because in the story somebody will have a great expectation of the future. I think it was written at the time to give readers, either in that time period or ours, a sense of what was really happening in their life. It was to let future people have a documented look at what life in the turn on the 19th century was like.

Poem

No, i did not post this poem because of the fact that we read (and memorized) it sophomore year. I truly enjoy this poem and its message, whatever the reader interprets it to be, that is.

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich – yes, richer than a king –
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.