My feeling

“Great Expectations" tells a very simple story. It continues Dickens's orphaned image. The hero of the novel PIP, whose parents died when he was young, lives with his tyrannical sister and simple brother-in-law. If nothing happens, he will inherit his brother-in-law's life as a blacksmith, but it will happen. First he saved a fugitive prisoner, which gave him a psychological shock; Then he is taken into the rich but extremely extreme character of the Havisham home, to see the upper class life and beautiful Estella, a restless heart can not settle, he wants to be a gentleman. But for an apprentice blacksmith, all this is wishful thinking, but miracles can happen. An unexpected and mysterious inheritance befalls him, and PIP enters the society of the gentry and lives the life he has always dreamed of. But in this kind of life, he also gradually lost himself, the pursuit of material enjoyment, even at the expense of borrowing. But when he went further and further down this road, accident happened again, the inheritance was gone, he was beaten back to its original form. What situation would PIP face now? We can imagine that. This is the main content of this novel, which is also worth us to reflect on a lost self of the life course. There is a fundamental difference between the way we read this masterpiece, written nearly 200 years ago, and the fast food we read today. Novels at that time were relatively slow in pace and detailed in description, but when we can calm down to read, the feeling of being there, the delicate touch of the author's narration, really let us into the world of literature. But when we can't settle down to read, it's a different story. This is my most obvious insight from reading Great Expectations. Know the ending, whether there is interest to read again. The first reading, reading is the story of the novel, which is all novels can meet. The second reading, the third reading and the subsequent repeated reading are the real stepping into the world of the novel, into the narrative space created by the author, into the real world in the novel, to experience the joys and sorrows of the characters, to feel their feelings, even if you put yourself into it, there will be no uncomfortable feeling. Now that's a perfect novel. And the reason why a great book is a great book, it must be able to achieve this situation.