Literature Analysis #4

Slaughterhouse-Five Literary Analysis

Big Question Introduction

An Exploration of Black Holes

Great Expectations Title

Charles Dickens' novel is titled Great Expectations because the protagonist of the story, Pip, has great expectations for the future. After a lifestyle of poverty his entire life, an unknown man sends him a large sum of money because he has faith that the child will amount to something great. Also, the novel is titled Great Expectations because Pip himself has high hopes for what is bound to come for him in the future.

The Wise

Dead men are wisest, for they know How far the roots of flowers go, How long a seed must rot to grow. Dead men alone bear frost and rain On throbless heart and heatless brain, And feel no stir of joy or pain. Dead men alone are satiate; They sleep and dream and have no weight, To curb their rest, of love or hate. Strange, men should flee their company, Or think me strange who long to be Wrapped in their cool immunity. Countee Cullen