Responding to the quote: Great Expectations

This is one of my favorite quotes in the book so far. Pip is referring to his plain life as it is now, and the life of luxury and intelligence he aspires to have. The day Pip has had in chapter nine has changed him in a way as to rethink about his life with the blacksmith. At the end of the chapter he is even ashamed to think how "common" Estelle would find Joe and his life. The Pip in the first nine chapters is a young boy, who strives to be an apprentice to a wonderful, kind blacksmith he looks up to. The Pip in the later chapters however, is a much different young man. This Pip is now ashamed of the life he once wanted to live. He now wants to live a much more intelligent, and luxurious life. I would think these changed are for the better, because in our day and age we always say dream big, but back in the Victorian Era, time were much different. I think these changes are probably for the worse in that thought because Pip will probably get his hopes up because it was near impossible for a young blacksmith's apprentice with almost no family to raise his social standing in the community.

The time in my life that stands out as starting my chain would have to be back when I was in about first grade. I was always bored in school, ahead of my classmates. My parents worked with my earlier teachers to get a individual program for me so I wouldn't be bored in class anymore. My dad taught me so much as a kid, probably more than half of the first through third grade curriculum. This experience for me started a craving for learning for me, which started my chain of "smarts" up until now. The person I am today can be traced back to the long car rides with my dad and him quizzing me on everything from something on the latest book I've read, or the starting of long multiplication and division.