远大前程英文概括（共6篇）
篇1：远大前程英文概括
Great Expectations——远大前程
In thistterm , I read a book called 《 Great Expectations》, it was written by Charles Dickens, one of the most famous English writers.He wrote lots of wonderful novels.This book is one of his compositions.People always like to compare with their friends.It is a big foible of all the people.If other people have a lot of money, we also want to be rich.If all the people around us are poor , we never mind that we are very poor, too.we will not ashamed because of our folly.This is a social problem.If we never possess anything, we will not mind we lost some thing.Since we don’t want to be very rich ,we will not feel despond because poor.The protagonist of this novel is Pip(Handel).His parents died when he was a baby.His sister had brought him up ‘by hand’.His sister married to Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith.They didn’t have much money, and Pip never went to school to study.But he was often very happy.Because all of his friends are like him.It isn’t very unfortunate to them, this is their lives.But by a chance, Pip helped a convict;he gave much food to him.Then he met Miss Havisham, a very strange old woman and she was very rich.Four years later, Miss Havisham wants Pip to be removed from his home and educated as a gentleman who expects inherit a fortune when he grow up.After hearing that.Pip started to despise his poor friends.He even feel ashamed because he live with the poor man.Pip’s ‘great expectations’ destroyed his life.This novel told us that we cannot compare with others.Don’t feel envy at the others money.And if one day you be very rich , please don’t despise your poor friends.
篇2：远大前程英文概括
Great Expectations
“Great expectations” is one of Dicken’s most maturest works.After Dicken had experienced large part of meaningful life, he had a deeper cognition for people, environment, as well as the life which he had gone through.And all the mature cognitions are included in this writing---Great expectations.Pip was brought up by his sister who was unpleasant as well as crude and her friendly blacksmith husband—Joe.Joe himself had arranged a common hard but satisfied path for Pip to go through, and on the other hand, Pip beheld this as his highest goal to achieve.But the two things which he had experienced later had changed his pursue and his fate as well.Met Abel Magwith(an escaped convict)in the swamp, and unwillingly helped him out of danger by stealing food from his own home.If say that had changed his attitude for material life, then, his introduction to Miss Havisham, an aging woman who had been jilted at the alter and Estella who had been brought up by Havisham only to revenge for her own pain had brought vast shock for his world of spirit.Aspiring to be a gentleman despite his humble born, Pip fortunately or unfortunately received a fund of wealth from an unknown source and being sent to London with a lawyer.From then on, he became a gentleman without question at the price of losing everything.The title of this book is ‘Great expectations” which make an impression on us that the character would have great expectations just as the title goes.But in fact this title has a tone of sarcastic on the other way around.This story full of quirkiness from the very beginning to the end, the relations among characters are anfractuous as well which actually attracted me a lot.One of the paragraphs, which I appreciate most implicatively as well as beautifully expresses the feeling between Pip and Estella.“We are friends,” said I, rising and bending over her, as she rose from the bench.‘And will continue friends apart.” Said Estella.I took his hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place;and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first let the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.At the view of language, this works had achieved a step o f highest, Dicken had made this writing plain and fluent as well, which surely can attract lots of readers and high comments.To be frank, I really impressed by this art of beauty.So I like Dicken’s works very much.
篇3：远大前程英文概括
In form Great Expectations fits a pattern popular in nineteenth-century fiction:the Bildungsroman.Bildungsroman, a German word, with“bildungs”referring to“portrait”, “picture”, “shaping”and“formation”, and“roman”indicating“novel”in English. (Buckley, 13-14) .Simply speaking, the Bildungsroman can be considered as the novel that bears the subject of the protagonist’s growing process, in other words, it is the narration of the growing experiences of one or several persons, it reflects the transformation from innocence to maturation of one’s thought and mentality.So the Bildungsroman can be defined as“a narration of the making of an individual and of the maturation process of a young man who searches for his identity through various schools, jobs and political or religious institutions”, it is“the story of a child’s initiation into adulthood or youths struggling for identity, maturation, and a place in society. (Sun, 14)
In Great Expectations, Dickens presents the psychological, moral and social shaping of the protagonist Pip.
Pip’s psychological development is closely related to his relationship with Estella.The most significant day in Pip’s life is his employment by Miss.Havisham, which serves as a watershed of Pip’s psychology.Pip’s psychological course is totally different before and after that“memorable’day.Before that day, Pip’s childhood is viewed as a time of innocence and goodness while living in the Garden of Eden.Pip lives a quiet and innocent life.His highest ideal is that one day he will become“Joe’s apprentice”.During this stage, although he is poorly educated, he is satisfied with this life and his warm friends.He is totally innocent in this low standard society.
Pip’s acquaintance with Miss Havisham and Estella is just like Satan’s temptation which caused Pip’s sin and downfall.That day ignites Pip’s desire to become a gentleman so that he can marry Estella.This desire for Estella goes through a process of maturation form totally innocence to real love.
His obsession with Estella begins with Miss Havisham’s dirty desire—to exact revenge on all men, including the innocent Pip.The first time Pip notes this is in chapter eight when Miss Havisham asks Estella to play cards with Pip, Estella refuses because Pip is“a common labouring boy”and Miss Havisham then tells Estella to break his heart.He is surprised and thinks he has misunderstood her.As the novel progress, he becomes very aware of what her agenda is.However, he cannot stop trying for Estella’s attention, though.He is hooked, admiring the unpossessable princess while she spurns her.He is being used, even if at a distance, by Miss Havisham and Estella.His true self realizes that something is wrong but he just cannot see it yet.
When he comes into a handsome property and starts his“great expectations”, he firmly believes his benefactor is Miss Havisham and she will marry Estella to him.He is obsessed with Estella.He knows it and Hertert knows it, but nothing can stop Pip.In pursuing Estella, Pip has no identity of his own, because he has no goal in life other than to please Miss Havisham and love Estella.
When Magwitch appears in his life, he gets to know that he is totally cheated by Miss Havisham.However, he still visits Estella and Miss Havisham the last time before leaving to get Magwitch out of the country.Pip’s psychology achieves maturity at this time.He tells Estella that he knows he will never have her and does not blame Miss Havisham.When Estella tells him she is going to marry Drummle, Pip passionately pleads with her to marry anyone else.His love toward Estella transforms at this moment because he really cares about her happiness.His obsession with Estella transforms into real love and gets reward by his reunion with Estella eleven years later when he returns form Egypt.
During this process of maturation of Pip’s psychology, there are also the processes of his moral and social maturation.
One of the great ironies of this novel is that Pip's financial and social rise, which results from his having"expectations, "is accompanied by an emotional and moral decline or deterioration.Before his acquaintance with Miss Havisham and Estella, he is a totally innocent boy.But after he returns from Miss Havisham’s home, he begins telling lie to his family member about what he sees in Miss Havisham’s house.He begins to feel ashamed of Joe for his profession and his low life.When he takes Joe to see Miss Havisham, he is ashamed of Joe’s manners.When his dream of being transformed into a gentleman is about to come true, he begins to condescend to people around him.He orders his new clothes, but he doesn’t want to take them home to be seen by people around him.He wants to“remove Joe into a higher sphere”so that Joe may seem appropriate if one day he marries Estella.In order to pursue Estella, he snubs Joe because Estella tells him that“what was fit company for you once, would be quite unfit company for you now.” (Dickens, 183) When in London, hearing from Biddy that Joe is coming to see him, he is totally snobbish to him.Instead of feeling warmly and happy to see his ever companion and friend, he feels, he is cold to Joe.His snobbishness makes Joe feel uneasy and begins to call him“Sir”.His attitude changes a little only when Joe tells him that Estella wants to see him.He never goes back to Joe’s home except when his sister dies.The appearance of his true benefactor, Magwitch, turns his great expectations into disillusion.With his financial declining, there is the moral rising.At first there is an awkward, snobbish beginning of their acquaintance, Pip feels, just as Pip the narrator says, “the abhorrence in which I held the man, the dread I had of him, the repugnance with which I shrank from him, could not have been exceeded if he had been some terrible beast.” (Dickens, 241) Then Pip gets to know the man’s genuine love for him.With time Pip responds and learns to love him and fear for his safety.In the night escape that he plans for the man, Pip gets thoroughly wet, which is a symbolic baptism, signifying his regeneration.When Magwitch is seriously wounded and dying, Pip always holds his hand in his.He achieves moral maturation when Magwitch dies, he does not tell him“his hopes of enriching me had perished”and his daughter is still living and is a beautiful lady.
With his psychological and moral rising, there is also the development of his social responsibility.Before Pip begins his“great expectations”, his ideal is that one day he will become“Joe’s apprentice”.During this stage, although he is poorly educated, he is satisfied with this life and he wants to live a life by honest working.But after his acquaintance with Miss Havisham and Estella, he can never see happiness in his work.He thinks his working life totally hopeless, feeling“a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more.” (Dickens, 87)
When his“great expectations”begins, he becomes a gentleman and continually judges by the external criteria of status and wealth.In London, where Pip lives out society's–and his own–concept of a gentleman, he leads a directionless, futile life;he has no intellectual, cultural, or spiritual values and no meaningful purpose.He has no social responsibility and lives an idle life as a gentleman.He achieves his social responsibility when he realizes the money turning him into a gentleman comes from a convict.He not only refuses nay more of Magwitch’s money, but he refuses any aid from Miss Havisham.Whatever happens now will be of his own making, a sure sign of social growth.When Magwitch dies, he suffers a sudden brain fever, falling into a long coma, a symbolic kind of death of“the gentleman”in him, and surviving to face the new phase of his life.Pip finally accepts responsibility for his sins, debts and life.
From the analysis above, you can see the movement of Pip’s shaping of personality:psychological, moral and social maturation.It is a typical Bildungsroman.Dickens centers on the initiation of Pip.After going through various ups and downs of life, Pip learns from all of them that there are no free rides, that wealth does not guarantee from consequence, and in the end he has to take responsibility for whatever he chooses.Although Dickens describes a young man in the 19thcentury in England, it is still of great significance to all the young people even today.Perhaps that’s the reason why Great Expectations remains a literary classic in the world literature.
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篇4：远大的前程
对于一位明星而言，这已经是相当司空见惯的事情了。一旦在公众场合露面，他们就要承受着这种令人窒息的关注感。“你在赛场上赢得越多，你受到球迷的关注度就越高。”德里克·罗斯这样感慨地说道。不过要按照罗斯的这种说法，沃尔显然并不应该具备这样的关注度。
场均16.3分外加8次助攻。17.77的球员绩效比率在全联盟仅仅位列第71位。而他的球队呢？奇才队在上赛季的常规赛事战绩仅为20胜46负，甚至在上赛季刚刚开局15场比赛之后，他们就已经确定了与季后赛无缘的尴尬地位。这样的个人成绩，这样的球队战绩，我们还能够从他们这一年的表现里想到什么呢？
毫无疑问，在又一个令人失意的赛季结束之后，一切都没有任何的改变。沃尔仍在试图让自己变得更好，而他所在的奇才队仍是一团糟。“你希望做到一切，”在接受媒体记者的采访时，沃尔这样坚定地表示，“你希望成为一名全明星球员；你希望成为联盟最顶尖的5名控卫；你想打入季后赛，并将这座城市带回到本属于它的位置。我早就听说过，在这支球队以前打进季后赛时，现场所有球迷都统一穿着白色服装时，那种激动人心的场面有多么令人疯狂。那正是我希望达到的地步，我想成为救世主。”
查尔斯·狄更斯曾经写过一本小说，书里的主人公是一个无依无靠的孤儿，可他正是凭借着自己的努力从一名默默无闻的铁匠成为一名富有的绅士。这本小说的名字叫《孤星血泪》，与小说中的主人公匹普相比，沃尔也同样有着他的远大前程，但很可惜，他却背负着比匹普更大的压力。媒体需要一位明星，华盛顿需要一位英雄，他们都需要他立刻挺身而出，扮演着他们心目中的各自角色。同样的，在红牛午夜狂奔活动的现场，他也同样肩负着艰巨的使命。一会儿要帮助活动组的工作人员挑选参加全国巡演锦标赛的合适人选，一会儿又要负责指导现场参赛球员们的技术动作。在那里，他就像是《星球大战》里的尤达大师，而其他那些出席活动的100多位球员俨然已是他的门徒。
还记得在今年四月份的一个酷热难耐的周五午后，我们在著名的巴里农场为沃尔拍摄杂志硬照。沃尔驾着一辆闪闪发亮的白色保时捷准时抵达拍摄地点。此时是下午3点38分，他要在5点返回华盛顿球馆参加球队训练。他走进摄影棚，按照摄影师的要求迅速进入拍摄状态：伟岸的身材依靠着背后的栅栏，头上悬挂着一则红牛宣传画页，手里擎着一只篮球。拍摄结束之后，他又接受了杂志的专访，并在预定的时间内准时收工，返回球馆参加训练。任何与那些大牌球员有过丰富合作经验的工作人员都知道，像这么顺畅的合作体验当真是少之又少。
我向他问起与新的赞助商红牛饮料合作起来感觉如何，平时是否经常饮用这款饮料时，他是这样回答的：“经常喝，大概一天能喝一到两瓶吧，”说到这里，他又不忘补充道，“其实我更爱喝的，是我妈妈做的奶茶。”
就在去年夏天，加瓦利斯·科利坦顿因为涉嫌亚特兰大谋杀案被捕入狱。就在那个八月的早些时候，前NBA球员西恩一班克斯涉嫌参与两宗总价值约为2万美金的八室盗窃案被警方拘捕。而在随后的149天时间里，大卫·斯特恩，比利·亨特和其他联盟高级行政人员也因为无法平均分配一块价值40亿美金的大蛋糕而险些令全球篮球爱好者们此后再也无法大快朵颐。而在2011年的总决赛失利之后，勒布朗·詹姆斯将自己反锁在家里足有两个礼拜，独自倾听着巴利·怀特和柯蒂斯·梅菲尔德的歌声来疏解心里的郁结。对于斯特恩的全球品牌战略来说，这是一个阴郁的夏天。与此同时，约翰·沃尔却因为在这个夏天打了太多篮球的缘故而陷入了麻烦之中。“我当时只是这么想的，与其在球馆里训练，还不如在更多的慈善比赛和夏季联赛中锻炼自己，”沃尔后来这样为自己解释道，“我觉得自己的这一想法非常标新立异。”
也许在球迷们看来，频频参加慈善比赛的沃尔为他们在漫无边际的停赛期间带来了一丝希望的光明，但他却为自己带来了意想不到的困扰。前奇才队主教练菲利浦·桑德斯就认为，他的这位昔日控球后卫在街头比赛中吸取了太多太多的赛场坏习惯。随之而来的赛场影响是相当显而易见的。奇才队在上赛季开局的前17场比赛里，竟然输掉了其中的15场。而沃尔在其中的10场比赛中场均失误达到4次，投篮命中率也低于40%，在三分线上的命中率更是低得可怜。到这个赛季临近尾声时，沃尔在联盟中第二个赛季中的表现（场均16.3分和8.0次助攻，投篮命中率42%）与新秀赛季相比没有丝毫的进步可言。直到现在，沃尔仍在为自己努力辩解着，“我是参加了太多的夏季联赛，但我觉得这对我来说只会是好事，怎么会有坏处可言呢？”
事实上，从进入联盟的第一天开始，沃尔就一直被球迷们将他与公牛队的克里斯·罗斯绑在一起相提并论。罗斯在他进入联盟的第二个赛季里场均可以取得20.8分，但他其它的数据，6.3次助攻，3.9个篮板和微不足道的0.8次抢断与沃尔的上赛季数据相比却显得略微薄弱了一些。实际上，罗斯直到他进入联盟的第三个赛季才算彻底爆发，场均取得25分的他率领公牛队取得了联盟最好的62场常规赛事胜利，并在那一年昂首挺八到东区决赛，在此后的数年时间里他都是MVP的最有力争夺者之一。反观沃尔，对于这样一位可以同时在联盟扣篮和助攻两项排行榜上入选前十大的天才球员来说，我们似乎对他奢求太多。在许多个他的技术统计全面开花的夜晚里——譬如今年四月份对阵骑士队的那场比赛里，他成为联盟历史上近25年来第四位单场数据达到21分、13个篮板、7次助攻和7个抢断的球员——他在场上无所不能。在球员圈子里，沃尔是相当受人敬畏的人物。就在那次参加红牛午夜狂奔活动时，几乎所有到场的年轻球员都称呼他为全明星，尽管他到现在还从未真正入选过。联盟里的同行们也相当看重他。明尼苏达森林狼队的凯文·乐福就曾说过，沃尔是联盟里行进速度最快的三位球员之一。2010年度最佳新秀，同时也是他在联盟中的密友之一凯里·欧文这样评价道：“对于他的比赛，我最欣赏的一点就是他在全速向前奔跑时的快速变向能力，这在联盟中简直无人能及。”
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身为一名控卫，沃尔的赛场名望却是从他在联盟中这两年的摸爬滚打，从43胜105负的赛场磨炼中积累起来的。在他加盟奇才队初期，阿里纳斯仍在这支球队里充当灵魂人物，那时候的球队简直一团糟。“刚刚进入那支球队时，他面临的局势相当不妙，”他在AAU时期的老队友迪恩·怀特斯说，“但是身为一名伟大的球员，我相信他绝对具备着扭转乾坤的能力。但在球队接二连三地把队内一些经验丰富的老球员交易出队之后，我真的不知道他应该怎么办。”
就在这一年的交易截止日即将来临之时，奇才队管理层终于做出了清理球队的英明决定。他们先是甩掉了己队的大肥约，继而又将虽然才华横溢，但却自私傲慢极不成熟的尼克·扬和贾维尔·麦基交易出队。至于球队的另一位臭名昭著的麻烦人物安德烈·布莱切，他也因为身形过肥而被球队裁掉。在一番清理过后，华盛顿又从丹佛掘金队得到了29岁的中锋内内，从而给予己队内线有力的赛场保障，也为沃尔增添了一位相当称职的辅佐型球员。尽管他们在接下来的19场比赛里仅仅取得了5场胜利，但沃尔本人却在这五场比赛里取得了双位数的场均助攻数据。“我们想成为一支季后赛球队，”沃尔说，“我们知道自己有这个能力。我们已证明了自己有能力击败联盟中最出色的一些球队，我们也可以和所有东区球队抗衡。这一切都和一点有关，那就是我们必须做出正确的决定。我相信，所有队友都明白，我们球队下赛季的目标是什么，以及能引进哪些球员。我们惟一要做的就是全身心地投入到今年夏天的训练，这样再度归来时就能变得更好。”
一直以来，沃尔始终因为他糟糕的投篮手感而背负着尴尬的赛场印象。因为在球迷们的固有观念里，只要一名球员不会投篮，那肯定是因为他们太过懒惰，缺乏工作热情所致。但他们却忘记了，球员也是一个普通人，也并非任何时刻都能够保持着清醒的头脑和理智的手感。托尼·帕克上赛季的三分球命中率只有23%，他可是一个三届NBA冠军得主。德里克·罗斯在他职业生涯的前两年里总共取得了32个三双，但此后的三双表现却泛泛可陈。没有人会质疑他们的工作热情，即使是最伟大的迈克尔·乔丹，他也同样在外线表现得起起伏伏，职业生涯总三分球命中率也不过是33%左右。沃尔也同样在训练场上留下了辛勤的汗水，即使他的投篮能力总是被人低估，但他还是在不知不觉中改变着，而这一点我们从数据统计中就可以找到蛛丝马迹。按照数据显示，沃尔在上赛季的前22场比赛中，在从距离篮筐16到23英尺远的位置投篮的命中率低于22%，而在此后的21场比赛中，他在同一位置上的投篮命中率却攀升到43%。而在整个联盟中，只有五位组织后卫在这个位置上的投篮命中率超过了沃尔。“我认为他在赛场上的进步确实是有目共睹，只是奇才队内形势对他而言实在没有太多的益处，”拉夫说，“在我看来，只要奇才队能够引进几名出色的角色球员，并且围绕着他组建全新阵容的话，这支球队的未来还是相当乐观的。”
今年六月份，在专为兰迪·威特曼返回球队担任主教练一职召开的记者招待会上，这位主教练在回答记者提问时表示，他很希望在下赛季里能够从沃尔的身上看到满满的自信。这种自信不仅仅是对他自我天赋的肯定，更是在关键时刻可以挺身而出，帮助球队取得胜利的绝对胜算。“投篮是沃尔最需要解决的问题，”他这样解释道，“我相信在新赛季里，他一定会呈现给我们一个崭新的赛场面貌。在这个休赛期里，他一直都在刻苦练球，我相信这对他今后的赛场自信心有着很大的帮助。”
不管怎样，奇才队在去年赛季临近尾声的那个不可思议的六连胜，以及他们在这个休赛期内一系列雷厉风行的改良措施，还是让球迷们对即将开始的新赛季充满了无限的幻想。更为重要的一点是，沃尔已经开始尝试着扮演奇才队救世主的角色，但前提条件是他要开始尝试跳投，入选全明星阵容，以及率领奇才队摆脱在联盟中将近三十年的奇差窘境。他已不再是菜鸟，因此他明白下赛季必须表现出色，绝对没有任何理由可找。谈及什么样的感觉才算是成功时，沃尔说：“作为一名球员，我认为就是做到大家期望我做到的：率领我的球队，命中关键球，成为超级巨星。用最确切的语言来描述我想做到的，这样我最终就能成为一名超级球星，成为联盟排名前五的控卫。”
篇5：远大前程英文读后感
There was a man who had seven sons, but he had no daughter, greatly though he longed for one. At last his wife told him that they could again expect a child and, sure enough, when it was born it was a baby girl. There was great rejoicing, but the child was weak and puny, so weak that it had to be christened at once. The father told one of the boys to go quickly to the spring and fetch christening water; the other six ran along with him, and because each of them wanted to be the first to dip the jug into the well, it fell in and sank. So there they stood and didn‘t know what to do, and none of them dared go home. When they didn‘t come back their father got impatient and said:“ I‘ll wager they‘ve been playing some game again and forgotten all about it, the godless brats.“ He was afraid the little girl would have to die unbaptized, and in his rage he cried out:“ I wish those boys would all turn into ravens.“ He‘d scarcely spoken the words when he heard a whirring of wings in the air overhead, looked up and saw seven coal-black ravens flying away.
篇6：远大前程英文读后感
Great Expectations is about love， family， and rejection as Pip and Miss Havisham have bothbeen rejected in certain ways. Pip is a boy around 13 years old， easy to fright， and goesthrough his life suffering lots of sadness. He is in love with a girl named Estella and wantsher to find his love， but for him being shy and not showing himself to her， it makes it veryhard for him.
Great Expectations was the penultimate novel pleted by the most popular novelist ofVictorian England， Charles Dickens. Born in Kent， England， in 1812 to a family of modestmeans but great pretensions， Dickens’s early life was marked by both humiliation andambition. Dickens never forgot the period of financial crisis during his childhood， whenfollowing his father’s bankruptcy， he was taken out of school and forced to work in ashoepolish warehouse.
Pip meets an escaped convict，Magwitch，and gives him food， in an encounter that is tohaunt both their lives.When Pip receives riches from a mysterious benefactor he snobbishly abandons his friendsfor London society and his“great expectations”.
I set up my mind to select it for the reason that I have read a brief introduction of thismasterpiece in my high school English textbook before. In addition， a Tale of Two Citieswhich is also written by Charles Dickens， the outstanding and special English writer， left mea wonderful and deep impression， when I finished reading the marvelous story.
Of course， Great Expectations didn’t let me down， either. What’s more， the whole structureof the novel is well and elaborately designed. The plot is extremely attractive and full ofunexpected twists. Quite a few characters have a distinguishable personality. Moreover， thosewords and sentences are so beautiful and meaningful that I even took them down carefully inmy notebook. By reading them no less than three times， I have learned not only some newphrases and sentences， but also a philosophy of life.
Among the characters， which impressed me most are not Pip and Estella who should be regardedas the leading roles， but Joe and Magwitch. I feel awfully sorry that I was not brave enoughto read the original edition that is as thick as a brick. Otherwise， I may appreciate Joe andMagwitch more.
Yes， they are not the main characters in the novel. However， what they saidand what they did deeply touched me. It’s interesting， isn’t it? They are quite theopposite guys. One is a totally good man without the least bit of wickedness while the otheris a prisoner who is believed to have mitted every evil.
I believe that everyone who reads the book is to like Joe. When he talked about his heavydrinking father who hit him a lot， he said he had a lot of love. Faced with his rude wife， hewould rather seem a bit weak or foolish than stand up to her and fight for himself. Knowingpeacockish Pip was ashamed of his uneducated manners， he left sadly and quietly. The worldrushes on over the strings of the lingering heart making the music of sadness. But when hewas informed of Pip’s illness， he immediately came to take good care of Pip.
He is alwayscontributing everything and requiring nothing. Such a man is Joe， kind， tolerant andselfless. “Nothing is so mild and gentle as courage， nothing so cruel and pitiless ascowardice，” says a wise author.
However， why do I appreciate Magwitch， the bad guy? You may wonder. Indeed， Magwitch did alot of evil things when he was young. But how can you be unmoved when you get to know thatthe 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’ssecond father， making up his mind to help his dear boy became a gentleman. He did every kindof job and led a hard life in Australia. At last he made a big fortune and promised himselfthat all the money would go to Pip.
He could have led a better life in Australia ，but Ihechose to go back to London .with the simple intention of seeing Pip， he went back at the riskof being hanged! “whatever the fault he had from the start， remember， reader， he had a goodheart.” Joe used these words to describe his father. But I think these words can betterdescribe Magwitch. He lived with the fear of death all his life. Who shuts love out， in turnshall be shut outfrom love. However，thankfully，because Pip finally realized his goodheart， his ending was peaceful.
Dickens has Pip as the writer and first person narrator of this account of his lifesexperiences， and the entire story is understood to have been written as a retrospective，rather than as a present tense narrative or a diary or journal. Still， though Pip “knows” howall the events in the story will turn out，he uses only very subtle foreshadowing so that welearn of events only when the Pip in the story does. Pip does， however，use the perspectiveof the bitter lessons hes learned to ment acidly on various actions and attitudes in hisearlier life.
I know how to fully understand this novel，twice is far from enough. Pip，Estella， MissHavisham，Biddy even Mr Wemmick， every single character has a story that is well worth myattention. I love this novel so much that I am determined to read the original edition oneday. Believe me. But before that day es，I will see the movie Great Expectations first.