Sunday`s Realizations. Week 2.

One more week passed. I want to share with my thoughts about the reading.  I found more about Pip`s life in his family. And I am sorry for him, because the life he lives is not happy at all. He is like an outcast in his own family. It seems that his sister doesn`t love Pip, even a little. While reading I haven`t noticed that she says something gentle to him . In Christmas morning instead of wishing him Merry Christmas her first words were ("And where the deuce ha' you been?").  
At that Christmas day some guests came to them. Each of them said to Pip that he is unthankful, and that he doesn`t appreciate that his sister does for him, and that there is nothing good in this boy. His sister didn`t stop them , didn`t defend him.  What`s more she agreed with them and confirmed that he is a burden to her. ("He was a world of trouble to you, ma'am," said Mrs. Hubble, commiserating my sister.

"Trouble?" echoed my sister; "trouble?" and then entered on a fearful catalogue of all the illnesses I had been guilty of, and all the acts of sleeplessness I had committed, and all the high places I had tumbled from, and all the low places I had tumbled into, and all the injuries I had done myself, and all the times she had wished me in my grave, and I had contumaciously refused to go there.) 

Only Joe, her husband , was kind to Pip and supported him during the whole dinner. 
I am shocked with Pip`s sister behaviour. How could she agree with people who tell a lot of bad things about her brother? It is awful to have a sister like she.   

Realizations and New Expectations.

I read some chapters of the book. To be honestly, it didn`t bring me so much pleasure I expected. That is because there are a lot of difficult words, which I even couldn`t find in the dictionary. But , in spite of this, I understood the contents of these chapters. And at first I found out who are the characters.

The main character is a boy Philip Pirrip, who names himself Pip. He is an orphan. He never saw his parents. He can only imagine how were they, looking at their tombstones:.(The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above," I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly. )

Pip lives with his elder sister and her husband. She is not a good-looking woman. She is very strict  with her brother , and by the way, with her husband as well. The latter is a like a friend for Philip. He differs much from his wife. Even Pip says that he doesn`t understand how could he marry his sister :(She was not a good-looking woman, my sister; and I had a general impression that she must have made Joe Gargery marry her by hand).

There appears one more character, already in the 1st chapter. This is a strange man whom Pip meets once in the graveyard. He is very fearful, with the iron on his leg. He looked like a wild man. Probably he is the criminal, who escaped .

So far this is all.  Next I expect to find out  more about the characters. Then I think that  soon there will  begin many actions,  adventures. I haven`t read enough to understand  what is this story about. Therefore this week I hope the reading will be more successfull!)

Expectations about « The Great Expectations».

Being acquainted with Dicken`s creativity, I`m sure that the book we are going to read will be interesting.  It could be a story  full of adventures…It could be also something mysterious…
I haven`t read this book even in my native language yet, therefore it `s content is a surprise  for me.
But, when I read the name of the book, I don`t know why, I imagine a story about  some people, maybe a family, which lives difficult life or there happened something bad, and they struggle for their living…
Or , it can be also a love story, with the elements of adventure.
Anyway, whatever it is, I am sure that I will read it with pleasure. I like to read Dickens. There were not  any of his stories that I found boring and uninteresting.
I expect that reading this book I will spend a lot of plesant hours and, of course, it will teach me something.