Great Expectations, volume 1
Sep. 29th, 2006 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI just read another ten chapters and finished volume 1 of Great Expectations.
This is all that needed doing before class on Tuesday. I have some vague hopes of reading the whole thing and starting over by then. We're recommended to watch a film of it or read notes to get the shape of the whole book, but I find I like it, and want to read it without spoilers.
Pip is such a little snot. Really a brat. And then just when you're about ready to pick him up and shake him, the author does, and he ends up crying and noticing he was being a brat. So then as a reader I stop being quite so annoyed with him.
I still have hopes the story will shake it out of him by the end.
Considering how much the teacher has been talking of books having a moral, I think this is likely.
I feel vaguely like I *ought* to know the story. But not having read or seen it before to the best of my recollection, I don't know why I figure that.
And it is interesting watching him trying to better himself through education, because of course we're reading it for class and doing some of the same. But he has the daft reasons, and makes me look at myself in the hopes I don't.
I'm pretty sure I don't. I think my arrogance fell out some time back around I first started doing resits, or rather not actually doing them. Now I've taken 4 years to get a 1 year course done, I just figure I amble along finding out interesting things. Don't make me better than anyone.
Logically that means it don't make anyone better than me, to have done it quicker. Better at their subject, and knowing more, yes, but not just 'better'. Huh. Useful.
Books are fun.
Tomorrow I'll do some study skills stuff. I did figuring out how many hours a week I'm expected to do, and it came up quite high. This week my task is, see if the book I borrowed is a good one to buy. And read some of those handouts I got. And maybe highlight them. I like making them colors. Feels like progress.
This is all that needed doing before class on Tuesday. I have some vague hopes of reading the whole thing and starting over by then. We're recommended to watch a film of it or read notes to get the shape of the whole book, but I find I like it, and want to read it without spoilers.
Pip is such a little snot. Really a brat. And then just when you're about ready to pick him up and shake him, the author does, and he ends up crying and noticing he was being a brat. So then as a reader I stop being quite so annoyed with him.
I still have hopes the story will shake it out of him by the end.
Considering how much the teacher has been talking of books having a moral, I think this is likely.
I feel vaguely like I *ought* to know the story. But not having read or seen it before to the best of my recollection, I don't know why I figure that.
And it is interesting watching him trying to better himself through education, because of course we're reading it for class and doing some of the same. But he has the daft reasons, and makes me look at myself in the hopes I don't.
I'm pretty sure I don't. I think my arrogance fell out some time back around I first started doing resits, or rather not actually doing them. Now I've taken 4 years to get a 1 year course done, I just figure I amble along finding out interesting things. Don't make me better than anyone.
Logically that means it don't make anyone better than me, to have done it quicker. Better at their subject, and knowing more, yes, but not just 'better'. Huh. Useful.
Books are fun.
Tomorrow I'll do some study skills stuff. I did figuring out how many hours a week I'm expected to do, and it came up quite high. This week my task is, see if the book I borrowed is a good one to buy. And read some of those handouts I got. And maybe highlight them. I like making them colors. Feels like progress.