Look Out Folks, We Got Ourselves a *Speed-Reader* Right Here.

[alory_shannon]

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I really have NO time for anything, much less updating LJ, because it is paper-writing crunch time for my Library & Info Studies class. But...this Library Story of the Day was too...something for me to pass up documenting

Comments

[malruniel11]

I've looked at Great Expectations all week and am about to write 800 words about an interpretation of the text without having read a word because I'm out of time. How's *that* for impressive?

In other news, if you have anything to add to interpretations of GE, I'd love you forever!

[alory_shannon]

...Well, IDK how much you know or what angle you're taking on it, but it's a coming-of-age story about Pip, and crime & punishment and guilt are major themes as well, as are social classes (OF COURSE, because it's Dickens). There are other themes about revenge, and letting go of the past, and what love really is, what it means to be family, and...there is just SO MUCH, ahhhhh I want to re-read it now... Can you tell me more specifically what kind of input you want? Though it HAS been a while since I read it, so.

[kirbywarrior1]

Alright, about 700 words to go! :D

[alory_shannon]

Pffft. Don't go giving her ideas! X'D

[malruniel11]

I know it's about Pip and Mrs. Haversham is in it, and... that's about it. It's Dickens, so social class will be an issue. Is there a good interpretation to have of GE? It can be personal and not classic (see Frankenstein as a Moral Tale for Modern Young Adults, my last essay).

[alory_shannon]

Well, I personally found it really interesting that Pip starts out as a poor orphan being raised by his sister and her husband Joe, with no prospects other than to become a blacksmith, and through...well, he lets an escaped convict go and doesn't raise the alarm on him, and that convict later (secretly) acts as his benefactor, with the goal of making him into a "proper gentleman". And so Pip goes through all that, and does become a "proper gentleman"...but in the end, all his high-class friends are nowhere to be found, but Joe (who Pip had sort-of come to look down on, seeing him as "simple" and uncultured) shows up and takes care of him while Pip is very sick, probably saving his life, AND pays all the debts Pip had run up while being a "proper gentleman" in London. Pip feels guilty about being ungrateful and for not visiting Joe for years, and they reconcile, with Pip swearing to pay Joe back.

...And I dunno, but to me, that's always felt very "Prodigal Son"-esque. :]

[malruniel11]

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That's my undying love and gratitude abbreviated to fit in the comment field. ^_^

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[alory_shannon]

"...No homo, right~?"

Re: NOTE THE ICON PLZ |3

[malruniel11]

oh,no.... no homo...

EXCEPT FOR ALL THE HO-nevermind...

[alory_shannon]

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[malruniel11]

Us is like my favorite thing. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[alory_shannon]

LOL, I give, I give, you win!

........Though I suppose I *COULD* use that ~BEAUTIMOUS~ Pokemans .gif here...I know you just liked that one so much...

[malruniel11]

But I don't want to win!! I want us to battle it out forever through time!! ^_^ Quality time together and all....

[alory_shannon]

Well, you win anyway, 'cause I have to go finish paper #1 RIGHT FRIGGIN' NOW, MAN, so I can sleeeep so I can stay up all night tomorrow night writing paper #2. Because I FAIL EPICALLY AT CONCENTRATING TONIGHT, WTF. 8C

[malruniel11]

Yeah, quit distracting me! I'm writing a paper! But now my lappy is dying... better save.

[alory_shannon]

...Though that's only...a tiny little part of the whole plot, lol...