《远大前程》500字英文读后感
There was a man who had seven sons, but he had no daughter, greatly though he longed for one. At last his wife told him that they could again expect a child and, sure enough, when it was born it was a baby girl. There was great rejoicing, but the child was weak and puny, so weak that it had to be christened at once. The father told one of the boys to go quickly to the spring and fetch christening water; the other six ran along with him, and because each of them wanted to be the first to dip the jug into the well, it fell in and sank. So there they stood and didn‘t know what to do, and none of them dared go home. When they didn‘t come back their father got impatient and said:“ I‘ll wager they‘ve been playing some game again and forgotten all about it, the godless brats.“ He was afraid the little girl would have to die unbaptized, and in his rage he cried out:“ I wish those boys would all turn into ravens.“ He‘d scarcely spoken the words when he heard a whirring of wings in the air overhead, looked up and saw seven coal-black ravens flying away.
名著读后感500字三篇 导语：名著可以使人陶冶情操，在经典的名著里去探索、去挖掘那些潜在的文学风格。下面和一起来看名著读后感500字三篇，希望有所帮助！ 中国四大名著经久不衰，每次品读都有不同的感触。如同千姿百态的大好河山，“横看成岭侧成峰，远近高低各不同”，这也许就是其精髓所在。 其中这四书之首《红楼梦》，也是最耐人寻味的。在不同的人眼中，有不同的体会。正所谓“满纸荒唐言，一把辛酸泪。都云作者痴，谁解其中味？”实际上痴的不只是他一人，此书所写乃人生一大劫——情关。此书最引人入胜的，就是爱情。所谓情天恨海，也不过如此。 三国鼎立，历记载得十分详细。在《三国演义》之前，便有一本书，名曰《三国志》，其史料详实，却没有《三国演义》来得惊心动魄。《三国演义》中，道尽了——争关。阴谋阳谋、机关算尽、尔虞我诈、从不见太平。罗贯中用手中的那支笔，重现了如此雄浑的历史，也重现了那个时候激烈的你争我斗。 三十六罡天星，七十二地煞星。声势浩大，这一百零八位草莽英雄，竟出人意料的仗义，这就是《水浒传》。面对各种威逼利诱，他们坚持一颗仗义的心。就好像这句话“正义即是力量”。有人说过，利益下面藏着俩个字，叫自私。利益上面盯着俩个字，叫现实。合起
来又是俩个字，叫冷漠。这就是现代人的通病——利关，在现实的压迫中，丢失了仗义，丢失了人情味。 “你挑着担，我牵着马，迎来日出，送走晚霞”一段86版的西游记主题曲又响起在耳畔。《西游记》是所有人心中不老的神话。在这里，一只叫悟空的猴子，从大唐到灵山，十万八千里，其实就是它的一个筋斗。可这小猴子居然九九八十一难，是什么让它如此千难万险？是心中的欲念。也就是最难的一关——欲关。 这四大名著，代表了四种人性的关卡，情、争、利、欲。在人生途中，经历过这些，才能到达自在宁静的终处。 说实话，很长时间都没有和爸爸妈妈读过书了。有一天，我拿着姐姐初中的语文书去和爸爸读亲子共读。 翻阅着语文书，感觉好枯燥。对爸爸说：“真是的，初中语文书，怎么这么无聊，连一张彩色图片也没有，而且文字还这么多，可想而知，初中生生活这么乏味。”正当我要关上书的时候，一个题目吸引了我，这个题目的名字就是《孤独之旅》。 一个疑问充斥在我的心中。“为什么旅途是孤独的，是什么样的人经历了这样的旅途？”正当我在想的时候，妈妈说：“是要让你接触这种文章，看看主人公有怎样一段不同寻常的经历，这样才能更懂事。”伴随着柔和的灯光，我仔细地阅读着，我的情感也时起时伏，虽然有些字不认识，问了妈妈以后继续读。
英语名著读书笔记 【篇一：300字英语名著读后感】 frankenstein was a good scientist.he wanted to use elestricity to help people,and he wanted to discover the secrets of life.he worked very hard on these two things.he wanted to create a new life, but he was not allowed to make such medical experiments.he made a body in his laboratory and he didnot let anybody enter his labtatory or his flat while he was doing this awful work.he bought or stole all the pieces of human body that he needed,and slowly and carefully, he put them all together. he used electricity from lighting to give life to the body. in the beginning, the monster was kind and helpful. but when he was hated everywhere by his creator and people,he felt very painful. he became hated everything and wanted to destroy everything.he killed frankensteins son, william and fiancee ,elizabeth.frankenstein filled with anger chase him with his creation demonic monster, finally, frankenstein and the monster in the fight they died. it is a very terrible story. frankenstein created a monster, in this society in which the subject of ridicule, discrimination, so that he eventually became hate everything, trying to ruin everything. this is not just to create a simple person, but to create a satan, a devil. if people all show kindness for the monster, it would be a good man.there would not be many people losing their lives.in the story,the monster asked frankenstein to make a second creature. but at last, frankenstein did not.i think he is right.if he does that,there may be more people to be dead.maybe in the future,there will be no person on earth. it is awful. from the story,i learned that everyone should have sympathy. do not only care about appearance. 【篇二：英文名著读后感】 外国九大名著英文版读后感 【小王子】 title: the little prince author: antoine de st-exupery
名著读后感500字的作文 中华文化源远流长，博大精深，值得我们学习。《国学经典》这本书正是中小学生国学启蒙的一本好书。 这本书分行节俭、强自信、讲智慧这三个单元，每个单元都由经典要义、故事、生活、实践和经典诵读四个部分组成。不仅有名家名言，还有贴近生活的人、事，以及一些脍炙人口的著作选读。其中如“谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦”，大家早已耳熟能详，还有的如“一粥一饭，当思来之不易;半丝半缕，恒念物力艰辛”也在民间广为流传。这本书使国学之精华更接近人们平时的日常生活，让中小学生更容易理解，方便记忆，能把圣人之训用在实处。 读了这本书，不但让我懂得了一些做人的道理，行为的规范，更让我明白了要把这些道理应用在生活中。比如“由俭入奢易，由奢入俭难”，就是警示我们在日常生活中要勤俭节约，不要奢侈浪费。又如“恃人不如自恃也”，就是教育我们要从小努力学习，不断增长自己的知识才能，增强自己的独立性;漫长的人生道路上，我们不可能总是依靠父母和他人，而是应该自立自强。 《国学经典》这本书在扩大我们的阅读量的同时，也在潜移默化地塑造着我们的思想、行为。，让优秀的国学经典始终伴随着我们健康成长，让我们以自己的实际行动传承博大精深的中华传统文化并使之发扬光大!
《爱的教育》的作者为意大利的亚米契斯，本文写作特点为：采用日记的形式叙述可本文。 本文讲述一个叫安利柯的小男孩成长的故事，建记录了他一年之内在学校、家庭、社会的所见所闻，字里行间洋溢着对祖国、父母、师长、朋友的真挚的爱，有着感人肺腑的力量。文章中孩子们所表现的更多的是闪光的美德，这正是小说颂扬的地方。小说记录了长辈们对孩子的教育和启示，附在日记后面还以第二人称写了他们呕心沥血的教子篇。这本小说在漫长的岁月里，它陪伴一代又一代的孩子成长。可以说，这是一本永远不会过时的书。它用爱塑造人，引导我们永远保持一颗勇于进取而善良真诚的心，爱祖国，爱人民，同情人民的一切不幸与苦难， 这其中最令我难忘的是“医院的天使”。故事讲述的是一个叫齐启禄的小男孩，由于他的父亲到法国做工，前天回意大利。在那不勒斯市下船后突然生病，因此住进了医院。一面写信给他妻子，告诉她自己已经回国，及因生病入院的事。妻子得信后虽然担心，但因为有一个儿子正在病着，还有着正在哺乳的小儿，不能分身，不得叫大儿子到往看望父亲。孩子在医院却一直照顾着一个外人，最后不但不和真正的父亲回家，却要坚持照顾着那陌生人。 爱自己的亲人是应该的，也是容易的，但如果一个人只懂得爱自己的家人，除了家人之外的人一概不爱，那他就是
英文名著读后感范文（精选5篇） 英文名著读后感范文（精选5篇） 认真读完一本著作后，大家心中一定有不少感悟，需要回过头来写一写读后感了。怎样写读后感才能避免写成“流水账”呢？下面是小编为大家收集的英文名著读后感范文（精选5篇），欢迎大家借鉴与参考，希望对大家有所帮助。 英文名著读后感1I believe that one of the factors that makes a piece of literature or even a movie a masterpiece is how well the reader can relate to the story. This is definitely a book everyone can relate to. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a literary masterpieces，written in 1876 by the famous author Mark Twain. Tom Sawyer is a mischievous young boy who lives in the small town on the Mississippi River called St. Petersburg. The story line is simple，the book reads like a biography or a memoir of a summer in Tom Sawyers life. It is a story filled with action，adventure，, ingenious
英语名著读后感 【篇一：英文名著读后感】 外国九大名著英文版读后感 【小王子】 title: the little prince author: antoine de st-exupery main characters: the little prince, the pilot, the rose, the fox, the snake, etc. despite i’ve not in my childhood yet, i still prefer reading fairy-tale stories. the tales, which accompany with me in my old days, often make me think of some precious experience and sensation which only belong to children. this summer i’ve review this kind of tale, which was published in 1940. it’s the world-famous fairy-tale by the french author, antoine de st-exupery, the little prince. as many other fairy-tales, the outline of the little prince is not very complex. ―i‖, the narrator of the story, i s a pilot whose plane has something wrong and lands in the sahara. in this occasion, the pilot makes the acquaintance of the little prince, a little boy from another planet, the asteroid b612. the little prince has escaped from his tiny planet, because he has some quarrel with a rose, which grows on his planet. in that case he left his own planet and took an exploration at some neighbor asteroids. on his all-alone journey, the little prince meets different kinds of people, which includes a king, a conceited man, a tippler, a businessman, a lamplighter and a geographer. from these people he gets a conclusion that the grown-ups are very odd. following the instruction of the geographer, he descends in the sahara, on the earth. traveling on the earth, the little prince, who sees a garden of five-thousand roses, is overcome with astonishment and sadness, as he considers his rose is unique in the universe before. at that time a fox appears. the fox, who tell the little prince about the meaning of the word ―tame‖, becomes his new friend. at the time to say farewell, the fox makes him know that his rose is unique because she is his rose and tamed by
国外名著读书笔记500字 借鉴。 国外名著读书笔记500字 1 鲁滨逊漂流记是一本由丹尼尔·笛福59岁时所著的第一部小说，这本小说被认为是第一本用英文以日记形式写成的小说，享有英国第一部现实主义长篇小说的头衔。 《鲁滨逊漂流记》属于我国读者最熟知的外国文学名著。青年作家贾飞盛赞，称这部小说相当于一部发财日记，在那个特殊的时代，作者在作品充斥着浓厚的资产阶级思想。书里有不少论述，影响着读者去追求经济价值。他认为，该小说是一部具有投资思想的经济书，从中读者可以学会如何在恶劣的环境中如何投资发财，收取利润与汇报。当然，作者也从另一方面反映了一个时代的历史现状。 诚然，人们不一定都读过这本书，但是对这个书名却是很熟悉的，对其内容也大致知道一些，特别是他只身在孤岛上艰苦奋斗的情况。其实，能这样被人熟知也非常自然。因为在浩如烟海的书籍中，这部小说是举世公认的最严格意义上的不朽杰作，被认为是塑造了现代文明、影响了人类历史的不多几种文学作品之一。 据介绍，到十九世纪末，该书的各种版本、译本以及仿作已不下七百种之多。之所以能够这样吸引人，主要是由于这本书讲的是一个现实中不可能发生的故事，然而这故事听起来却非常有现实感，而我们听故事的人绝大多数同鲁滨孙一样，具有矛盾的性格，具有在各种
逆境中求生或改善自己生活的愿望，以及或多或少地具有把这种愿望化为现实的勇气和手段，也就是说，我们每个人的心里都有着一个鲁滨逊。 国外名著读书笔记500字2 最近几天，我看了一本书，感觉很好，这本书的名字叫做《老人与海》。它的主要内容是写古巴老渔夫圣地亚哥在连续八十四天没捕到鱼的情况下，终于独自钓上了一条大马林鱼，但这鱼实在太大，把他的小船在海上拖了三天才筋疲力尽，被他杀死了绑在小船的一边，在归程中一再遭到鲨鱼的袭击，最后回港时只剩下鱼头鱼尾和一条脊骨。 这本书让我深深地感受到了这位老人生活的艰辛和不易，更加珍惜身边的美好生活。 《老人与海》塑造了一个经典的硬汉形象。古巴的一个名叫桑地亚哥的老渔夫，独自一个人出海打鱼，在一无所获的48天之后钓到了一条无比巨大的马林鱼。这是老人从来没见过也没听说过的比他的船还长两英尺的一条大鱼。鱼大劲也大，拖着小船漂流了整整两天两夜，老人在这两天两夜中经历了从未经受的艰难考验，终于把大鱼刺死，拴在船头。 然而这时却遇上了鲨鱼，老人与鲨鱼进行了殊死搏斗，结果大马林鱼还是被鲨鱼吃光了，老人最后拖回家的只剩下一副光秃秃的鱼骨架。我十分同情这位老人的处境。”一艘船越过世界的尽头，驶向未知的大海，船头上悬挂着一面虽然饱经风雨剥蚀却依旧艳丽无比的旗帜，旗帜上，舞动着云龙一般的四个字闪闪发光——超越极限”
英文版外国名著读后感 本文是关于读后感的，仅供参考，如果觉得很不错，欢迎点评和分享。 英文版外国名著读后感 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is American famous literary giant Mark Twain take his youth as the main subject to wrote. Tom Sawyer and his best friend, Huck Finn, tell stories, fish, and pretend to be pirates along the banks of the Mississippi River. Then they become real-life witnesses to a terrible crime! Whether Tom is running away from villains, treasure hunting, or showing off for Becky Thatcher, it's one thrilling escapade after another. Story leading Tom's naive character, is lively and the also mischievous model US youths. He and the urchin summer gram, respectively made the wonderful matter which one burst out laughing. Is punished like Tom whitewashes the fence, unexpectedly executes the clever trick, not only causes other child to be willing to replace him to work, but also automatically offers the thank-you gift. Afterwards went with Xia Ketao to the desert island, the people thought they were drown to death, the church have been holding the mourning
名著读后感500字 读中国古典四大名著——《西游记》有感中国是一个泱泱大国，上下有着50xx年的历史，是世界四大文明古国之一，因此，中国的历史，是不能不了解的，如要更好地了解中国的历史，中国古典四大名著是不能不读的。中国古典四大名著包括：《西游记》，《红楼梦》，《三国演义》和《水浒传》这四部书，以生动的语言描绘出了一幅幅历史画卷，其中以《西游记》是我的最爱。《西游记》是一部长篇小说，它取材于民间流传的唐玄奘西天取经的故事。它运用轻松明快，幽默诙谐的语言，塑造出神通广大，敢于反抗的孙悟空的形象，反映了人民群众要求挣脱人身束缚，追求自由的愿
望。在这一部书中，留给我印象最深的是沙和尚。他与世无争，任劳任怨，虽然在故事中他的情节不多，但是如果没有他的话，这个故事就无法进行了，当孙悟空，猪八戒外出打怪的时候，就需要他来保护师傅；当孙悟空与猪八戒吵架的时候，就要他来出面调解。而且，像挑行李等活都是沙和尚来做，对于他的这种精神我很钦佩。然而，在我们的生活中，不也只缺少了这种精神吗？当今社会，像沙和尚一类的“老黄牛”实在太少了！谁诚实，谁善良，谁就容易被欺骗！想一想改革开放的时代吧！那时候，中国就因为有了这种任劳任怨的人才会在改革开放的大路上迈开如此坚定而又稳重的步伐！也正因为有了这样的人才会在社会主义建设上打下坚固的地基！不仅仅是《西游记》那精彩的语言让我们回味，那沙和尚的精神更应该让我们深思！让我们在深思之后依然踏踏实实的做好每一件小事，只有这样，中国人才会昂起自豪的头颅！！！
红楼梦读后感500字： “丢弃了不离不弃黄金琐，忘记了莫失莫忘通灵玉”，好一个多情潇洒的贾宝玉，娇嫩多病的林黛玉，塑造了一个发生在清朝封建家庭的动人爱情悲剧。 作者曹雪芹通过《红楼梦》，揭示了当时封建社会的黑暗，也表达了他的不满与愤怒。故事讲述的是从小体弱多病的林黛玉来到了荣国府，渐渐与贾政之与生俱来通灵玉而性格顽劣的公子贾宝玉相恋，又因凤姐从中使用掉包计，使得贾宝玉娶带有黄金琐的薛宝钗，让林黛玉吐血身亡，贾宝玉从此心灰意冷，看破红尘，遁入空门的故事。 我实在是为林黛玉而感到悲哀不值，更为他们悲惨的命运而惋惜。但追究人物本身并没有过错，让人憎恨却是那种封建的传统观念。什么婚姻大事父母做主，什么门当户对，这种思想真是害人不浅。这不，贾宝玉和林黛玉就是因此而要承受阴阳相隔，想而见不着的痛楚。还要让贾宝玉受这样的欺骗。唉，
外国九大名著英文版读后感 【小王子】 Title: The Little Prince Author: Antoine de St-Exupery Main Characters: The little prince, the pilot, the rose, the fox, the snake, etc. Despite I’ve not in my childhood yet, I still prefer reading fairy-tale stories. The tales, which accompany with me in my old days, often make me think of some precious experience and sensation which only belong to children. This summer I’ve review this kind of tale, which was published in 1940. It’s the world-famous fairy-tale by the French author, Antoine de St-Exupery, The Little Prince. As many other fairy-tales, the outline of The Little Prince is not very complex. ―I‖, the narrator of the story, is a pilot whose plane has something wrong and lands in the Sahara. In this occasion, the pilot makes the acquaintance of the little prince, a little boy from another planet, the Asteroid B612. The little prince has escaped from his tiny planet, because he has some quarrel with a rose, which grows on his planet. In that case he left his own planet and took an exploration at some neighbor asteroids. On his all-alone journey, the little prince meets different kinds of people, which includes a king, a conceited man, a tippler, a businessman, a lamplighter and a geographer. From these people he gets a conclusion that the grown-ups are very odd. Following the instruction of the geographer, he descends in the Sahara, on the earth. Traveling on the earth, the little prince, who sees a garden of five-thousand roses, is overcome with astonishment and sadness, as he considers his rose is unique in the universe before. At that time a fox appears. The fox, who tell the little prince about the meaning of the word ―tame‖, becomes his new friend. At the time to say farewell, the fox makes him know that his rose is unique because she is his rose and tamed by him. From that the little prince begins to treasure friendship and be responsible to his rose. At the anniversary day of his descent of the earth, rejecting th e pilot’s advice, he goes back to his own planet by bite of a snake. ―It’s too far. I can not carry this body with me. It’s too heavy.‖ he said. He tells his friend, the pilot, he must be responsible for his rose, so he has to go back. At the end the autho r doesn’t tell us the ending directly. Maybe it’s more significant for us to imagine, and for more, think over.
The great expectation of Pip and Magwitch We all know that chapter 39 is the turning point of the whole novel. Pip knows that his sponsor is not Miss Havisham, but the escaped prisoner Magwitch, who is saved by Pip. This truth makes Pip’s great expectation shattered. From the context, we can see that “the great expectation” is a kind of ambition from both Pip and Magwitch. It is such an ambition that hold up the life of both two people and bring a lot of change to their character. And the ambition is also the indication of one’s life. First, let’s see Pip’s ambition. Although the text don’t illustrate it clearly, we can infer from several details. At the beginning of the text, Pip states that “I had a taste for reading, and read regularly so many hours a day.” This state can fully demonstrate that Pip has a strong eager to learn knowledge, which means that he wants to become a real gentleman in the upper class. And when Pip is told that his benefactor is Magwitch, rather than Miss Havisham. He is shocked, disappointed as well as heart-broken. He repeats “Estella, Estella”, which tells us that his intention to become a gentleman was because of Estella, he wants to be able to match with her. From the above, we can conclude that Pip’s ambition
用英语写名著读后感 Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and passion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister. Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart.
读名著读后感500字 篇一：名著读书笔记500字 [名著读书笔记500字]名著读书笔记500字三国演义的读书笔记第一回汉朝末年，张角兄弟发动叛乱，刘备、关羽、张飞三人桃园结义，踏上了保国安邦的道路，名著读书笔记500字。第二回督邮故意刁难刘备，张飞怒不可遏，痛打了督邮一顿。朝廷上宦官专权，大将军何进立外甥刘辩为帝，掌握兵权后决定剿除宦官。第三回何进被宦官所杀，而与此同时他所召来的凉州刺史董卓已经率兵来到洛阳。董卓欲行废立之事，遭到丁原的反对，董卓用离间之计使丁原义子吕布背叛丁原，投奔了董卓。第四回董卓废掉少帝，立陈留王为帝，引起朝臣不满。曹操自告奋勇前去刺杀董卓，但却失败了。第五回曹操在陈留起兵，发矫诏声讨董卓。前来讨伐董卓的十八路诸侯立袁绍为盟主，关羽在阵前斩了董卓大将华雄，自此威震三军。吕布出关挑战，刘备兄弟三人奋勇击败吕布。第六回董卓用李儒之计，将汉献帝劫往
长安。长沙太守孙坚得到传国玉玺后离开了洛阳，准备回江东发展大业。第七回十八路诸侯联军开始瓦解，袁绍占据冀州后与公孙瓒开战，但公孙瓒得到了猛将赵云，袁绍与战不利。孙坚为报刘表拦路之仇，率部攻打江夏，却被乱箭射杀。第八回董卓暴虐无度，司徒王允利用美女貂蝉离间董卓、吕布，董卓在凤仪亭用画戟掷打吕布，自此二人结仇。第九回吕布在王允的挑拨下亲手杀了董卓，董卓余党李乌巢。 第三十一回袁绍粮草被烧之后，军力很快瓦解，曹操在仓亭背水一战，大破袁军，袁绍逃回邺城。刘备在汝南结连刘辟、龚都，欲乘虚攻击曹操，但被曹操用计袭取汝南，刘备败走，在孙乾等人的劝说下投奔了荆州刺史刘表。第三十二回袁绍病死，幼子袁尚继立，引来袁尚之兄袁谭不满。曹操趁袁氏兄弟自相残杀之时，从中取事，最终袁氏兄弟两败俱伤，被曹操从中渔利。曹操攻破邺城，审配身死，陈琳归降曹操。第三十三回曹操之子曹丕在邺城中发现袁绍儿媳甄氏，曹操为二人主婚。曹操在平原攻杀袁谭，又遣吕旷等人在壶关大破袁绍外甥高-干。袁熙、袁尚投奔乌桓，郭嘉劝曹操攻打乌桓，二袁不
英文版名著读后感 英文版名著读后感（一）《双城记》 After reading "A tale of two cities". "A tale of two cities" is one of Dickens's most important representative works.The novel profoundly exposed the society contradiction before the French Revolution,intensely attacks the aristocratic social class is dissolute and cruel,and sincerely sympathizes with the depressed classes.The novel also described many magnificent scenes like the revolt people attacked Bastille and so on,which displayed people's great strength. The novel has portrayed many different people. Doctor Manette is honest and kind but suffers the persecution actually ，Lucie is beautiful and gentle ，Charles is graceful and noble，Lorry is upright and honest ，Sydney is semblance of indifferent, innermost feelings of warm,unconventional but also selfless and lofty，Miss Pross is straightforward and loyal，Evremonde brothers are cruel and sinister……The complex hatred is hard to solve, the cruel revenge has made more hatreds, loves rebirth in the hell edge,but take the life as
Social class played a major role in the society depicted in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. Social class determined the manner in which a person was treated and their access to education. Yet, social class did not define the character of the individual. Many characters were treated differently because of their social class in Great Expectations. Seeing the contrast between how the poor and the rich were treated will give a clearer understanding of how much social class mattered. In chapter 27 when Joe comes to see Pip, he treats Joe in a different manner than before because Joe was now in a lower social class. His feelings about Joe's arrival were "Not with pleasure... I had the sharpest sensitiveness as to his being seen by Drummle." (p. 203). He was afraid that Drummle will look down on him because of Joe's lower class. Not only does Pip treat Joe differently, Joe also treats Pip differently because of their difference in social class. He begins to call Pip "sir" which bothered him because "sir" was the title given to people of higher class. Pip felt that they were still good friends and that they should treat each other as equals. Joe soon leaves and explains his early parting, "Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith, and one's a whitesmith, and one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppersmith. Diwisions among such must come...." (p. 209). He creates this metaphor than he is a common blacksmith and Pip is a goldsmith. This difference in social class had brought upon their separation. Other characters that were also judged by their social class were Magwitch and Compeyson. They were both on trial for the same crime but Compeyson got off easier than Magwitch because of his higher social class. Magwitch describes Compeyson's defense speech, ."..here you has afore you, side by side, two persons as your eyes can separate wide; one, the younger, well brought up... one; the elder, ill brought up... which is the worst one?" (p. 325). The decision of the trial was solely based upon social class appearance. These cases show how much social class really mattered. In Great Expectations, a person's social class determined the amount of education they had. It is important to perceive this relationship between education and social class to clearly understand the importance of social class. A person like Joe who was a common blacksmith had no education at all. Pip, in the early days when he was low class, had a poor education at a small school. The school was not the best of schools, but it's all that the lower class had. The teacher spent more time sleeping than teaching and Pip had learned more from Biddy than from the actual teacher. Even though he had an education when he was low class, his education as a gentleman with Mr. Pocket was much greater. Another example of how social class affects education is the difference of education between the two convicts. Magwitch, born poor and low class had no education at all while Compeyson, born rich was high class and a gentleman with an education. Education is a factor in showing how social class greatly determined people's lives. Even though social class determined many things, it did not establish a person's true inner