Mister Pip
by Lloyd Jones
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Author: Lloyd JonesEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2007-07-31
ISBN: 0385341067
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: The Dial Press
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Book Review: Take Me Away -
Summary: 4 Stars
Mister Pip tells shows how a story can change your life and how books can take you away in your imagination and alter your existence. Matilda lives in a simple village, violence erupts all around. Soldiers violate the village where the villagers live in fear. Mr. Watts the only white man in the small village takes over as teacher and reads Great Expectations aloud to the children. This has a great impact on Matilda and the children, and even the mothers get in on the act and share thoughts and ideas of their own to the children in the classroom a feat they undertake with great importance.
I haven't read Great Expectations and it didn't hamper my reading of this novel-although it did make me want to read it...
Great Expectations and Pip in particular, change Matilda's life - they help her survive and carry her further in life and give her a purpose. Mr. Watts is her idol and serves as a mentor.
I enjoyed the island life at it's peaceful times and the way the village Moms related knowledge to the children such as how to tell the weather from watching a crab.
This book gives us a glimpse at what it must be like to live in a village where the supplies are re-routed by rebels, where a sleeping mat or a single pencil is a most treasured item. The children in the village had never seen a building, but they try to imagine Dicken's London and it takes them away.
It does take a more violent turn toward the end but you read it and come to your own conclusions regarding the strengths and weaknesses of this book. I think you'll enjoy the experience.
Summary of Mister Pip
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives.On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens’s classic Great Expectations.
So begins this rare, original story about the abiding strength that imagination, once ignited, can provide. As artillery echoes in the mountains, thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers are riveted by the adventures of a young orphan named Pip in a city called London, a city whose contours soon become more real than their own blighted landscape. As Mr. Watts says, “A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe.” Soon come the rest of the villagers, initially threatened, finally inspired to share tales of their own that bring alive the rich mythology of their past. But in a ravaged place where even children are forced to live by their wits and daily survival is the only objective, imagination can be a dangerous thing.
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