Abel Meeropol

After the tragic event, my family and I rushed to his coffin. I saw his face of happiness once again, marking as a happy person on Earth. Despite his happiness, tears flowed freely from my eyes as a sign of helplessness and mourning. Many of his colleagues, friends, fellow co-workers, and supporters have rushed to his wake in Makati. Most of them gave their condolences and counsels. "Stay strong," "Condolences," these were the common words/phrases I heard from them. I reminisced my experiences…

In the coming-of-age novel, Great Expectations, Charles Dickens creates Pip, an orphan who finds himself with “great expectations” that dissolve and change throughout the story, allowing for Pip to also change as a person. The reader follows Pip as he goes through life, learning how to be a gentleman, (which is part of his expectations of life), loving Estella, Miss Havisham’s adopted daughter, who will not love him back, and keeping a secret about helping an escaped convict when he was younger…

Pygmalion Social class Essay Thought the play we notice how social class affects the interactions between the characters and the way they classify a person just by what they have not the quality of person they are. Mr. Higgins a man of may with the best payed education is the mentor of Liza. He who has had the best education and belongs to an upper social class, but as a human being has no manners and no education at all. And liza a poor innocent flower poor who dreams of…

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens focuses on an orphan child, Oliver who is very poor and in an orphanage that didn't actually care for any of the kids there. Then when Oliver asked the cook for more food and fled to the streets of London when he wasn't given the food he asked for. Later on Oliver met Artful Dodger who leads him to Fagin and his “gang” of pickpockets. The orphanage hears about Oliver's escape and go into the streets of London to retrieve Oliver and bring him back to the orphanage…

Great expectations; written during Economic Prosperity and Religious Controversy. Unlike other novels where the theme is revolved around love, romance and fairy-tale with grand mythical creatures. Dickens was writing about the social experience of the first generation of the Victorian age he outlines social injustice, child poverty and lack of education. Great Expectation is a bildungsroman where Dickens writes about the life of pip from an infant age to adulthood. when the readers first meet…

Charles Dickens novel, Great expectations is an account that centres on the life of one man named Pip, as of the time he was seven years old until he was in his mid-thirties. Pip shows us imperative actions in his life that formed who he became. While developing he acquires a collection of different connections and friends that influence him in his decisions and goals for his life. This is a novel of development ,therefore understanding Pip and his evolution is key in developing an…

The story of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë centres on the character of Heathcliff. In the beginning Heathcliff was a homeless orphan and throughout the novel grew as a character, gaining wealth and power. Heathcliff has numerous relationships with other characters within the novel which really give the reader an insight into his personality and what kind of person he is when dealing with different scenarios which he come across. The two main households and property’s which the novel…

The novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens revolves around the life of a young boy in Victorian era of England named Pip. When Pip is a young boy, he meets the rich and secluded Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham introduces Pip to her young adoptive daughter, named Estella. She raises Estella to not love, for she is intent on saving Estella from heartbreak. While she does this, she also trains her to break the hearts of others, much as her heart was broken by a man in her youth. She eventually…

Why God Gave Humans Free Will Before we can ask questions such as, “Why did God give humans free will?” we must first understand exactly what free will is and how it affects us in our daily lives. Free will is the choice we are given to decide between right and wrong. C.S. Lewis describes free will as this, “God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right.” He goes on to say, “If a thing is free to be good it’s also free to be bad.” God gives us a…

In Genesis 27, verse 35-36, “But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.” Esau said, ‘Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? This is the second time he has taken advantage of me: He took my birthright, and now he’s taken my blessing!’” Jacob tricked his father into giving the blessing, that originally belonged to Esau, to himself. He did this out of self-gain. “37 Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling…