Great Expectations Wrap-up

I found Great Expectations to be overall a good book.  I enjoyed Dicken's constant theme of mystery throughout the story, because it kept the long novel entertaining.  I liked how Dickens made us feel differently about all of the characters, and how in the end they all got what they deserved.  I feel like the only parts of the story I didn't enjoy were just the parts that were difficult to understand because of the time period in which the story was written, so I don't have many complaints about Great Expectations.  I liked how the main character changed throughout the story, and how Dickens wasn't afraid to make the reader not like Pip for a portion of the story towards the end.  I also like how he changed Pip back to the same lovable character, just a little wiser now, that we knew from the beginning of the story.

The outside reading went very well for me at the beginning, because I knew it needed to be a priority.  I got my chapters read every night before I needed to go somewhere.  However, about halfway through the book I started to slip a little bit and started staying up a little later every night to get the reading done. I felt like annotating and reading that much every night was difficult, but that is probably just because I have many priorities and I don't like reading in general.  Although I never got more than about one night behind, I should have managed my time a little more wisely and avoided the last minute reading I encountered towards the end.  I also think that this would have helped me to understand the story better, because I would have had more time to focus on it.