Review of the Pupil

I think it’s a charming story full of ambiguity. It talked about the relationship between teacher-Pemberton and student-Morgan. This relationship grows over time, they felt nervous. Pemberton wanted to leave with his student Morgan, but they didn’t have money. To my surprise, Morgan’s parents not pay Pemberton, and Pemberton didn’t tell his student because he worried that revealing the true situation of Morgan ’s parents would hurt Morgan. It was very ridiculous that the poor Morgan’s parents had been pretending to be nobles, not only did not pay Pemberton money, and even borrowed money from Pemberton. They had been in different countries, different residences. Morgan is the bond between his parents and Pemberton, and I think this was a vague bond, because the relationship between Morgan and Pemberton had a lot of problems, such as money, emotion and reality. It’s a tragic story, From this story, I see the lack of civilization and morality in that era. The funny experience of the characters is also the presentation of the society, which plays a warning role in the reality. Under that social condition, the tragic ending in the novel is deserved. It’s a carefully woven story, creep and tragic, to make readers think.