Great expectations

The world has many great works of literary genius. (evidently me and my bad spelling is not one of them)

But today I talk about three that inspire me the most (apart from my love for Billy shakespeare, that your all probably bored of)

Great expectations.

Pygmalion.

To kill a mocking bird.



These are three of the worlds most inspiring and most awe inspiing works of literacy.

Now Im sure you all know I have a passion for literature, I go through books like underwear, and I hope to be a weriter one day.



But thats because I think writers aresome of the most important people in the world, after all, where would we be today without writting?

Without books to learn from, letters to write, signs to read, we wouldnt have the (occasionally) civilised society we live in today.



I always say that a mind has no use without a mouth. You cant have true feelings, principles, morals, opinions, if their always locked inside your head, if you did youd be quite a plain boring person. People say that Im to opinionated, that I should just shut my trap. But I domt, because its my opinion, and its truthfully what I think. The way we think is who we are, a mind and a mouth together have twice the power of a fist.



But this isnt what todays blog is about I've been badly side tracked by my little tangent on our opinions and so on. No the point of todays blog is in reference to those three works of genius.



Great expectations,

to me it has a powerful message. It shows me that if people expect Highly of you, you can acheive highly, after all the strongest person in the world will fail at some things, and without people to fall back on, it would be a much harder fall. My point is that the people you choose to be around you, can be a massive part of shaping your character, If the people around you are independant, so will you be, we all say we shape our own lives, we make our own decisions, but the type of person we are, decides what we choose, and the people who make us that person are the people around us, just like pip and mrs havisham, and estella.



Pygmalion,

Pygmalion has more meaning for me still. When your treated like a flower girl, you will act like a flower girl, like being a flower girl is all your capable of, and if your treated like a dutchess, you will act like a dutchess, and you wil be capable of being a dutches. Now this part of my blog is about how peoples low expectations can lower pur opinions of ourselves. Such as the media, if they have a low opinion of someone for being size 14, we beleive its not okay to be size 14. If they portray overly photoshopped images of alien like women, whos waists are smaller than their heads, we beleive that what it expected of us. I fwe treated the queen like scum (well we ould be beheaded) but she would feel like scum. people may shape the way we live, but not always in the way we owiuld like, but again it becomes a part of who you become, it builds strength, it builds resistance, and it teaches us lessons in life.



To kill a mocking bird.

Tom robinson a respectable black man living in a southern county back when racism was still common is accused of raping a white girl, after the white woman has after all been the one to tempt him. Tom robinson was found guilty, and sent to prison. The reason he was sent, even afetr an almost infalible defence case against him, was that people expected him to be prosocuted, because he was black, instead of the girls father, who was actually the man who beat her. People expected him to be prosecuted, because it would be wrong to prosecute awhite man when you could use a black man as a scape goat. and this part os about how deadly peoples expectations can be, if their expectations are set to high, they set us up for a harder fall, if peoples expectations are to low, it brings us down to that level.



I wrote this because I was worried of my expectations in life, what people thought of me, how they could make my life turn out, but after writting this I realise that we can only deal the best with what we have, and if we must, out shine all expectations, or fall below them, to keep ourselves happy, the people around you shape you, but you do not conform to them.



But as alwaysI must leave you some food for thought: apart from your parents, can you think of somebody who has helped you becmoe a better person?