Great Exectations- The First Stage

In the novel Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens the main character Pip lives in a semi-normal family where he is brought up "by hand". In the quote Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one day, Pip was referring to his beginning day at Miss Havishams where he was asked to play. Without this memorable day Pip wouldn't have met Estella and practically nothing would have happened that has actually occurred in the novel since then. Miss Havisham was once heartbroken and so she wants so take revenge on pip by making him fall in love(at the age of 7-ahem...you should think that's a little weird i hope) so that then she can leave him. Pip has looked over his cruel plan of hers and continues wanting to go back to see Estella even if she might deny it when he was asked.

Probably one of the most altering days was when I went to my first Skyhawks soccer camp. I was about 5, so I don't remember that much. This was the main starting point for my soccer career and I've been playing ever since on numerous different teams. Here, I also met one of my best friends who now lives in Burlington, Vermont. This event in my life has influenced me and I went to those camps for many years to come. Besides the fact that I was the only kid there my age-not to mention my height, The main things I remembered were that we were at Yauger park and at lunch we had a contest to see who could stuff the most warheads in their mouths at a time-I won. Hopefully that winning streak will continue on in my soccer career! (And in case you were wondering, my capacity at that time was 9 warheads-for 17 seconds. Just try and beat that...)

Thesis:

Throughout the play, The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde portrays the many aspects of marriage in the Victorian Era using satire because he wants to show that marriage was not at all about romances but more of a business deal.

In my paragraph about The Importance of Being Earnest, my subject is about how Wilde portrays Algernon's use on marriage using epigrams and aphorisms. In the first section I used the quote " Three is company, two is none", shows how in the beginning he was fully opposed to the idea of marriage. Until he met Cecily, he didn't believe in love or romance in the business of marriage. In the second part, I used the quote "Divorces are made in heaven". This is a perfect example of Algernon's beliefs on the subject. Many men of this time probably had a similar view due to certain influences of the time period. The last idea I mention, is "My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as bad as the way Gwendolen flirts with you" is another brilliant example of his disbelief's. he doesn't think that it is proper to flirt with anyone and especially not one whom you might marry. According to our thesis sentence, the play mainly focuses on Algernon's life perspective. Concurring with Algernon's beliefs, marriage was nothing but an action to get possessions and to move up in rank. One of the main points in the story was to get everyone to understand the actual meaning of marriage. My concluding sentence will state something realated to the next persons paragraph such as, "al' of these quotes were very idealistic things that people in the Victorian Era may have believed or experienced in their society.