Whats the story?

1) He lived a hard life growing up in London and he expresses a lot of his emotions through his novels. His emotions are hidden with in the characters personalities and they come out as the character comes to life. I read the biography of Dickens and I also read summaries of the novel to help have a better understanding. Also Dr. Preston's lecture gave more of an explanation of Dickens reason behind the novel.

 LECTURE NOTES
 - London and Paris during the Revolution
 - Frozen Deep (18..) First novel
- Sydne Carton - talented, sacrifices himself for love so she can be happily with her husband.
- Carton was originally going to be named Dick or Richard ( Dick an eco of Richard Wardo of The Frozen Deep) Parallelism *
 - 1858 public readings for profit
- London and Paris in Tail of Two Cities
- Experiences gave him an extensive and peculiar knowledge of the city.. He knew it all, place of rancidness and darkness as well as knowledge.
- London was his inspiration to keep writing.
 - London was a labyrinth  city of extremes in wealth and poverty
- 1854 visits Paris
- His visualization of both these cities would have to be that great use of location
-   MORE NOTES TO COME..

Dickens Map

1) In order to finish I am going to need to be reading like crazy so I can finish on time and be on track with class discussions.

http://charlesdickenspage.com/expectations.html <--- I also found this cool site with info on Dickens and the novel itself! Helpful!

2)
- Lines 23 through 28 are an example of..
  (Passage given by clicking on link) https://sites.google.com/site/mrpipsgreatexpectations/home/ap-style-multiple-choice

- Why do you think this novel divided into three parts?
http://www.shmoop.com/great-expectations/questions.html

- What largely motivates Pip's struggle for social advancement?
http://www.funnelbrain.com/c-6179-largely-motivates-pip-s-struggle-for-social-advancement.html

- How does Estella appear to Pip in contrast to his visit to the prison?

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/ge/pva107.html

- In the final chapter, Estella says to Pip: "Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching." Discuss the theme of suffering in this book—specifically how it instructs Pip, Miss Havisham and Estella.Read more: http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/Great-Expectations-by-Charles-Dickens-Reading-Questions#ixzz2JR506c31

3) Cutting up the novel into sections and just giving explanations on our blog, using remix or just simply write out a summary. movies are sometimes nice to watch but they do not share sufficient amount of information as the novel displays.