"What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people's hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or at least get a resonance, where other people become a bigger instrument than the one you're playing. It becomes almost an obsession to touch other people. To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart. Sometimes I think songwriting is about tightening the heartstrings as much as possible without bringing on a heart attack." -Keith Richards
Why did Charles Dickens write the novel you're reading/reviewing? What in your analysis of literary techniques led you to this conclusion?
Response:
I think that Dickens wrote the novel Great Expectations because he wanted to show that there is good that can come from a horrible situation. Pip lived his life, completely alone and this is what drew him to a life of imagination and fairy-tale. With these thoughts he was able to get passed all the bad stuff that was going on around him and create his new reality. Now this only worked when he was a child, but that was the most important time for it to be so. He grew up, found what was real, and lived on striving for the best. Dickens in a way supports the cliché that 'good always overcomes evil.'
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