Autumn

Autumn

is here

Leaves

of all colors

Red, yellow, orange

Fall

to the ground

The branches

are bare

Preparing

for winter

Spring arrives

Bringing back

The leaves

Once again

The cycle

Of life

Continues

Great Expectations Essay

This is the link to my Great Expectations Essay. Please read it and comment if you have any suggestions!
http://alexjessays.blogspot.com/2009/12/great-expectations-essay_20.html

Great Expectations Quote Response

“..Think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.” (p.70) On Pip’s first trip to the Satis House, he has an unforgettable experience. There he meets the beautiful, but cruel, Estella, Pip is ordered by Miss Havisham to play with Estella who only criticizes him. The theme of the novel, love, is shown when Pip becomes infatuated with Estella. As he gets older and matures, his infatuation for her transforms into a real love and real feelings, that unfortunately for Pip, that are not returned by Estella. The quote symbolizes how on the day he first encountered Miss Havisham and Estella, he began to change into the man he would later become in the novel. A man who started out as a poor orphan, but somehow made his way up in society to a gentleman; living off of his fortune, never having to work and goes around doing whatever he pleases.