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姓名:學(xué)號(hào):Impression of the book“Great Expectations”With so many famous masterpieces on the booklist, it is really a pretty hard job to choose one to read much hesitation and deeply thought, I finally decided to borrow Great Expectations from the small Expectations is about love, family, and rejection as Pip and Miss Havisham have both been rejected in certain is a boy around 13 years old, easy to fright, and goes through his life suffering lots of is in love with a girl named Estella and wants her to find his love, but for him being shy and not showing himself to her, it makes it very hard for Expectations was the penultimate novel pleted by the most popular novelist of Victorian England, Charles in Kent, England, in 1812 to a family of modest means but great pretensions, Dickens’s early life was marked by both humiliation and never forgot the period of financial crisis during his childhood, when following his father’s bankruptcy, he was taken out of school and forced to work in a shoepolish meets an escaped convict, Magwitch, and gives him food, in an encounter that is to haunt both their Pip receives riches from a mysterious benefactor he snobbishly abandons his friends for London society and his“great expectations”.I set up my mind to select it for the reason that I have read a briefintroduction of this masterpiece in my high school English textbook addition, a Tale of Two Cities which is also written by Charles Dickens, the outstanding and special English writer, left me a wonderful and deep impression, when I finished reading the marvelous course, Great Expectations didn’t let me down, ’s more, the whole structure of the novel is well and elaborately plot isextremely attractive and full of unexpected a few characters have a distinguishable , those words and sentences are so beautiful and meaningful that I even took them down carefully in my reading them no less than three times, I have learned not only some new phrases and sentences, but also a philosophy of the characters, which impressed me most are not Pip and Estella who should be regarded as the leading roles, but Joe and feel awfully sorry that I was not brave enough to read the original edition that is as thick as a , I may appreciate Joe and Magwitch , they are not the main characters in the , what they said and what they did deeply touched ’s interesting, isn’t it? They are quite theopposite is a totally good man without the least bit of wickedness while the other is a prisoner who is believed to have mitted every believe that everyone who reads the book is to like he talked about his heavy drinking father who hit him a lot, he said he had a lot of with his rude wife, he would rather seem a bit weak or foolish than standup to her and fight for peacockish Pip was ashamed of his uneducated manners, he left sadly and world rushes on over the strings of the lingering heart making the music of when he was informed of Pip’s illness, he immediately came to take good care of is always contributing everything and requiring a man is Joe, kind, tolerant and selfless.“Nothing is so mild and gentle as courage, nothing so cruel and pitiless as cowardice,” says a wise , why do I appreciate Magwitch, the bad guy? You may , Magwitch did a lot of evil things when he was how can you be unmoved when you get to know that the old man kept himself going just by thinking of the boy who once did him a small favor? He lost his only daughter and Pip had no parents, so he considered himself as the boy’s second father, making up his mind to help his dear boy became a did every kind of job and led a hard life in last he made a big fortune and promised himself that all the money would go to could have led a better life in Australia ,but Ihe chose to go back to the simple intention of seeing Pip, he went back at the risk of being hanged!“whatever the fault he had from the start, remember, reader, he had a good heart.” Joe used these words to describe his I think these words can better describe lived with the fear of death all his shuts love out, in turn shall be shut out from , thankfully, because Pip finally realized his good heart, his ending was has Pip as the writer and first person narrator of this account of his life3