Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

[wdwgirl4ever]

For my honors english class, we have to read this and do like a TON of work during our summerbreak. Has anyone else read this, or has to for school? I have heard it's really boring and confusing, but I actually kinda like it so far. Kinda. lol What did/do y'all think of the book? Let me know! Maybe y'all can help me! lol jk

 

[WestCOT]

it's a sad story

i'd be glad to help you with it

 

[Sparx]

Its pretty sad. Its one of those you should probably read once in your life just for the experience. Try not to go in expecting it to be difficult or easy, just be open minded. There are some difficult parts to get through, but overall the story isn't bad.

 

[WestCOT]

adding to what sparx said, the reason it can be tough to get through at points is because dickens was writing it for Punch magazine, and the more he wrote and the longer he kept the story going, the more he was paid, so there's a lot of useless superfluence in some parts

 

[wdwgirl4ever]

really? i didn't know that... lol but like we have to do a summery of about every 50 pages, write a detailed description of 8 main characters (2 of which are my choice, don't wanna write out the list of the six i HAVE to do), find 2 pics of the six main characters (one from the beginning, one at the end) that we think they look like, and so on....ugh lol

 

[aquarhapsody]

It's sad....and for parts I felt like it'd never end.

I think it's just something they make you read in every school, though.

 

[Disney Princess Elli]

It's sad....and for parts I felt like it'd never end.

I think it's just something they make you read in every school, though.

we don't have to read it..

 

[wdwgirl4ever]

lucky you lol actually i kinda like it so far so idk lol

 

[PirateSnowmen]

I had to read it my freshman year and I really didn't like it. I really don't remember much about it, just that it was pretty much torture to read. I'll probably read it again sometime in my life

I did, however, LOVE A Tale of Two Cities (which we also read freshman year).

 

[WestCOT]

i remember i finished it before the rest of the class and was really bored while they all struggled with it. eventually our teacher got tired of the other kids and just put on the movie haha. i was with a really rowdy and bad bunch of other students though.

we don't have to read it..

it's part of the grade 9 program in most american schools i believe, so since you're in england you don't have to read it lol

 

[life of the party]

i tried to read it once and couldnt get through the first 3 pages.

 

[WestCOT]

i tried to read it once and couldnt get through the first 3 pages.

and then there are people like this who are wiser than all of us

 

[life of the party]

and then there are people like this who are wiser than all of us

excuse me?

 

[WestCOT]

excuse me?

i think that as far as the grand scheme of things goes, i'd rather not read great expectations than read it. so you made the wiser choice lol

 

[Sparx]

i remember i finished it before the rest of the class and was really bored while they all struggled with it. eventually our teacher got tired of the other kids and just put on the movie haha. i was with a really rowdy and bad bunch of other students though.



it's part of the grade 9 program in most american schools i believe, so since you're in england you don't have to read it lol

I didn't read it in 9th grade and it was never required reading for me. I just read it because I wanted to.

 

[DisneyWhiz]

I read this in 10th grade. I love the South Park episode for it

 

[chisnpeke]

i remember i finished it before the rest of the class and was really bored while they all struggled with it. eventually our teacher got tired of the other kids and just put on the movie haha. i was with a really rowdy and bad bunch of other students though.



it's part of the grade 9 program in most american schools i believe, so since you're in england you don't have to read it lol

I went to school in America and I never read it. Ninth grade we read Of Mice and Men, Romeo and Juliet and another I think but I can't remember what it was.

I don't think I've ever read Charles Dickens.

 

[Sparx]

I went to school in America and I never read it. Ninth grade we read Of Mice and Men, Romeo and Juliet and another I think but I can't remember what it was.

I don't think I've ever read Charles Dickens.

I never read Of Mice And Men in school. We read a lot of short stories in 9th grade. And Romeo and Juliet. I don't remember what else. In the 10th grade we we read A Separate Peace and Julius Caesar, and a lot of poetry. In 11th grade we read mostly short stories. I never took 12th grade english, I took Eng1010 at a community college instead. I read short stories there too.

 

[Disney Princess Elli]

For part of my English Literature GCSE I had to write a few essays on Romeo and Juliet and Jane Eyre and do an exam on Of Mice and Men.
We didn't read loads of books because most of the exams for English Language and English Literature are about comparing poems and analysing different texts.

 

[Axel]

it's part of the grade 9 program in most american schools i believe, so since you're in england you don't have to read it lol

I never read it in school. I read it because I like Dickens.

And since people are naming off what they've read for HS english, this is what my reading load was:

9th: Romeo and Juliet and a lot of miscellaneous poetry.
10th: Hamlet, Lord of the Flies, and we were supposed to read Catch 22 and Fahreinheit 451, but my teacher was...well, let's say "different" in his teaching methods and we never did.
11th: The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, Slaughterhouse Five, and a TON of American poetry.
12th: Blindness, Crime and Punishment, Frankenstein's Monster, Lord Jim, The Heart of Darkness, and poetry.