Premonitions Response

The Past
Time to learn from our mistakes

Realizing opportunities we did not take

Problems that we came across

Praying daily that we wouldn't get lost

The Present

Living day to day

Hoping and hoping to find our way

In this world we live in today

The Future

Waiting all our life to be grown up

To be successful to make something of yourself

Only to wish to be brought back to your youth once again

When living in the present, knowing what would happen in the future

Predicting the outcome of others based on events from the past

Would you try and stop it?

Try to protect complete strangers from the terrible events they will soon face?

Or would you let them face it alone, for it is destiny.

Great Expectations Chapter 25

After a long stressful day at work, watching people lose cases, watching them have to give away a possession special to them simply because they cannot afford to pay for their case with money, could possibly be the toughest job a man could receive. When forced to go to this job everyday -- everyday forced to watch these occurrences -- would you let it ruin not only your working life, but your personal life too? Would you bring home your work and let it control what you did at home and how you did it? Dickens illustrates this shutting out of reality through the life of Wemmick.

With these problems faced, it is time for Wemmick to go home, yet he does not return to what we today would consider a home. He returns to his castle. Little children pretend to live in castles and pretend to be royal, almost as if they live in a fantasy world. Once at home Wemmick closes himself off from everything work related because he doesn't want it to complicate the life he lives at home. His castle is his healthy escapism because he doesn't want to face the reality of the working world while he is there. Closing yourself off from reality is a way of life Dickens is illustrating through Wemmick; the thought is truly tragic.

Reflections on Great Expectations

Home - a comforting oasis - a place to spend time with loves ones. However the idea of home is illustrated very differently in the novel Great Expectations. Pip's character changed from an innocent boy into a theif once he is introduced to a man willing to kill. In order to save himself, Pip is forced to return to his aunts house - his home- and steal what the man has asked for. The idea of stealing from family, from your own home, is truely disgusting. Illustrating the character Pip is becoming.

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Rock

Fresh water trickling over the smooth wet surface
Drops of crystal slowly making their way towards the barren earth,
From which we came
And where we will return.

A tiny metronome,
Timing my thoughts - my actions,
Timing where we step,
And where we fall.

Picking up this moist, glassy solid,
I place it in my pocket, and continue through the expansive forest.

The Good Earth

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Bare Branch

Falling with a sense of rhythm
Spiriling down to the bare, frosty ground

Autumn is here

Leaving trails as if showing where we've been
And where we have yet to go

Autumn is here

Glancing up the branch, half broken
Shaking amongst the winds

Autumn is here

The branch now almost empty,
Forced to face the winds alone

Autumn is here.