Dickens

In Great Expectations, Pip is an orphaned, because of that he has no social status. Dickens was also not well off as a child. Dickens must have used some of his experiences and hardships when creating Pip. Pip mirrors Dickens in many ways.

Great Expectations

The title is very accurate. The novel displays many topic that have to do with expectations. The protagonist, Pip, is a young boy who has many expectations but quickly realizes everything isnt how he thought it would be.

Lit Analysis

                                                       To Kill a Mockingbird
1. Atticus , a lawyer, worked in a courthouse in Alabama during the great depression. He has a daughter Scout, and a son named Jem, he is twelve. There was a man named Boo Radley who lived  down the street.  The kids made up stories of Boo Radley. The kids sneak around Boo's place. Nathan, Boo's brother, shoots at them. Atticus defends a black man named Tom Robinson, who was accused of raping a girl. Kids get bullied in school because town is racist. When Tom Robinson's trial begins, he was placed in the local jail and outside a mob gathers to lynch him. Atticus gets the mob to leave. Later in court, Atticus provides clear evidence that Mayella Ewell was not raped and that her and her father Bob are lying. White jury convicts Tom Robinson. Tom tries to escape but is shot to death. Jem's faith in justice is shaken and he's filled with doubt. Bob attacks the kids but Boo Radley saves them. Bob stabbed to death.The sheriff says Bob tripped and landed on the knife. 

2. Theme: The theme is understanding people. People aren't just good or evil. There is a need to learn about peoples true intents and you can't judge a book by its cover.

3. The author's tone seemed dark and hopeless. The setting had a powerful effect on the tone. It showed how people felt back then.
ex.It was the great depression and everybody was struggling.
ex. "nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see..."

4. Symbol: Tom was like a mocking bird. It is wrong to kill somebody who hasnt done anything.
Foreshadowing- Boo put gifts in a tree for the kids, and fixed stuff, show that he was a good guy by the end of the story.

Irony: The kids were saved by somebody who scared them. 

Poetry

Alone by Edgar Allen Poe

From childhood’s hour I have not been

As others were—I have not seen

As others saw—I could not bring

My passions from a common spring—

From the same source I have not taken

My sorrow—I could not awaken

My heart to joy at the same tone—

And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—

Then—in my childhood—in the dawn

Of a most stormy life—was drawn

From ev’ry depth of good and ill

The mystery which binds me still—

From the torrent, or the fountain—

From the red cliff of the mountain—

From the sun that ’round me roll’d

In its autumn tint of gold—

From the lightning in the sky

As it pass’d me flying by—

From the thunder, and the storm—

And the cloud that took the form

(When the rest of Heaven was blue)

Of a demon in my view—