Great Expectations

65Worth an evening.

The money isn't clean, and he was taught to be ashamed of the forge.

The review

Pip is helped out of a forge and taught to be ashamed of the people who loved him. I know the price when a child learns to look down. The benefactor is not who he thinks. The money comes from a secret, and the money is not clean. Charles Dickens, 1861. The expectations are a false life. The forge was the real work.

I wouldn't start it the same week as another long Dickens if anyone still has homework. The house can take it, just not in a rush. Fame doesn't make the gentleman's life a good one. If we read it, I want to know who got left at the forge, not how grand the money sounds.

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Keep Great Expectations in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 65. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

The eight

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Industry
The forge was the real work; the secret money buys a false life.
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Household
Pip is taught to be ashamed of the people who loved him.
5
Piety
Seeing the shame is the conscience; someone else planted it first.
5
Courage
Getting free of the forge looks bold and costs the people who loved him.
5
Republic
Money that is not clean buys the life a town is meant to admire.
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Temperance
The expectations are a false life, and the book will not bless them.
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Truth
The benefactor is not who he thinks, and the money is not clean.
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Stewardship
The people who loved him are what the false life spends.

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Story · Switzerland · 1881

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Heidi

64Watch it awake.

A bitter grandfather thaws, and a city house makes the mountain child sick.

The review

Heidi is left with a bitter old man, and she thaws him. That is the first half I trust. Johanna Spyri, 1881. A girl, a grandfather, a mountain. Then a city house takes her as a companion. She sickens for the altitude and the air. The mountain is not magic. It is the place her body knows. I don't need to add a miracle to make it land.

A richer house using a child as company is the part I'd say out loud. Her body tells on the arrangement. I was tired and the book did not ask me to be clever about it. The old man was bitter and a child softened him, which is a household, not a trick. If we read it, we don't call the mountain a spell. We call it the air she needed and the house that took her off it.