Great Expectations

Charles Dickens, is a critical realist novelist status in British literature is recognized as second only to Shakespeare, is experienced poor and understand poor writer, his childhood because his father's debt tasted human changes in temperature, but he put the experience into his steady source of art, at the same time because is the underlying experience, and particularly close to the public, plus when he read a lot of classical classics, is deep attainments on artistic aesthetic, so did a good combination in art and popular. This book is in the tone of the orphan pip, about he began from the age of 7, the three important stages of life things happen first, Pip and sister, brother-in-law together, a chance, Pip met fugitive in the cemetery Magwich, and steal out of the food from the home to the fugitive, it also buried the foreshadowing for later adventure. After that, Pip was called by Miss Hao Vixiang to play the manor, in the manor felt the gap between the poor and rich, produced inferiority, but also gradually look down on the family and friends around. A few years later, pip "luck" came, a famous lawyer from London to visit, claiming to be taken by anonymous people to London education, and pip will receive pen in the future legacy, slowly lose yourself, forget himself, slowly began to pay attention to good life, pay attention to the surface scenery, lead to high debt. Pip's dislike of good guy Joe also shows readers the influence of vanity on a person, and in this part, we see the flattery of some snobbish people, and the sincerity of some kind people as always.later on, The Lord appears, Pip took a big blow, The original heart expected of the "great future" disillusionment, But he was vain but his conscience, Trying to help the fugitive Lord escape from danger, But helpless fate played tricks on it, All your swans are geese, Eventually the fugitive was captured, Death of an injury, He has also, lost his financial resources, And a serious illness, The good he had done to his friend in turn helped him, Years later, He and his good friend Herbert have made a modest career in the East, Back to your native land, In the site of the manor full of memories, Once again I met the widow's first love, Estella, Is an open ending. This book made me understand that the meaning of life is in place In things, people can be satisfied and grow when dealing with specific problems. The great future waiting for inheritance is empty, and the future created by hand is practical.