Rach's review
Mister Pip
by Lloyd Jones
Rach's review
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Rach's review
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2008
The Pacific island of Bougainville is in the grip of Civil unrest, half the population left before the blockade, including the teachers. It is left to Mr Watts, the only white man on the island to open up the school again and teach the few things he knows, with the help of the local mothers and a copy of Dickens' "Great Expectations".
This is the story of "the greatest novel by the greatest writing of the nineteenth century" and how it affects a classroom of Pacific island children who cannot imagine London, let alone Victorian London; how the many layers of Dickens' novel can contrast and compare with what is happening on the island and how when one has books and imaginations the worst situations can be tolerable.
This novel is beautifully written and never has a story that involves such violence been created with such uplift and poetry.
This is the story of "the greatest novel by the greatest writing of the nineteenth century" and how it affects a classroom of Pacific island children who cannot imagine London, let alone Victorian London; how the many layers of Dickens' novel can contrast and compare with what is happening on the island and how when one has books and imaginations the worst situations can be tolerable.
This novel is beautifully written and never has a story that involves such violence been created with such uplift and poetry.
