"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

“Look’ee here, Pip. I’m your second father. You’re my son—more to me nor any son. I’ve put away money, only for you to spend. When I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half-forgot wot men’s and women’s faces wos like, I see yourn. . . . I see you there a many times plain as ever I see you on them misty marshes. ‘Lord strike me dead!’ I says each time—and I goes out in the open air to say it under the open heavens—‘but wot, if I gets liberty and money, I’ll make that boy a gentleman!’ And I done it. Why, look at you, dear boy! Look at these here lodgings of yourn, fit for a lord! A lord? Ah! You shall show money with lords for wagers, and beat ’em!” I love this quote. It is remarkably touching in a way that makes you wonder how many people are deep inside. The revelation that Magwitch told Pip was an eye opening situations where the story changes and so do the feeling of the characters. I would have never expected Magwitch to be the one whom helped Pip be a gentleman and have a higher education than he had. An action that he did as a humble child stuck through this poor mans mind and had a greater plan for him than just being an orphan. I love that the author explained in great detail why Pip wanted to be a great gentleman, serving for only one womens love, but instead Pip turned out to find his path to being a gentleman from another mans appreciation towards him. I think that this book turned out to be what I had expected and it surprised me that it wasn't a typical love story instead it was an even better connection of ambitions for a better education and an appreciation for a humble a man.