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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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"A New Zealand writer has produced a highly entertaining and well written novel in Mr. Pip. The title comes from the main character in Charles Dickens's wonderful novel, Great Expectations. The narrator is a young black adolescent, named Matilda, and she is bright and open to all the ideas of the world that her eager mind can absorb. She is just entering puberty, living on an island in Papua New Guinea. She lives with her mother and is an only child. Her father left the home to work in Australia but has never returned. Her mother, a rigid woman, has developed a hard shell to protect herself from hurt. Unfortunately this sets the stage for distance between the mother and daughter. Matilda's teacher is a mysterious white man, married to a black woman. Much of the novel involves the gradual discovery over time of the true identity of this man, Mr. Watts. His wife, Grace, appears to be suffering from depression. With few school books or other academic resources, Mr. Watts teaches the island children, from Great Expectations. The main character of the novel, Pip, captures Matilda's imagination and soon she reflects about her own experiences and compares them to the experiences of Pip. As the influence of Great Expectations increases for Matilda, her mother becomes concerned and a rivalry develops between Mr. Watts and Matilda's mother Dolores.
This novel is about the power of the narrative to not only entertain but to allow reflection on personal experience. Life is so full of many experiences, many of which we barely have time to remember, or analyze. The power of novels is their ability to help people, at a conscious or unconscious level, organize their experiences and put meaning or new meaning on life experiences. There is a wonderful passage in this novel where Great Expectations disappears and the students, with the help of Mr. Watts, reconstructions the story. The story is more than just a parable on the power of the narrative form, though this is certainly a characteristic of this novel. The scenes where the children reconstruct the novel from memory or the scenes where Mr. Watts agrees to tell the military insurgents the story of Mr. Pip every night for 6 nights are brilliant. The early chapters where island life and myth infiltrate the story line and dialogue are magical. The final chapters where Matilda is an adult and reflects upon her childhood are beautifully written. This novel is highly recommended."
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- I loved this book. We did it as a Book Club selection and everyone (there were 16 present at my book club) enjoyed it. Some husbands read it on advice from their spouse and the spouses enjoyed it too. I read it twice and enjoyed it even more the second time. The story is based on true occurrences that happened on an island named Bougainville which can be found on a map of the world. I'm glad the story was told for the world to read about. Not having read Great Expectations is not a problem for the reader as the Charles Dickens story is explained to the reader. However, having some knowledge of the book or the movies that have been made from this book would be helpful so that the reader can appreciate the parallel characters drawn between Mister Pip and Great Expectations.
- A New Zealand writer has produced a highly entertaining and well written novel in Mr. Pip. The title comes from the main character in Charles Dickens's wonderful novel, Great Expectations. The narrator is a young black adolescent, named Matilda, and she is bright and open to all the ideas of the world that her eager mind can absorb. She is just entering puberty, living on an island in Papua New Guinea. She lives with her mother and is an only child. Her father left the home to work in Australia but has never returned. Her mother, a rigid woman, has developed a hard shell to protect herself from hurt. Unfortunately this sets the stage for distance between the mother and daughter. Matilda's teacher is a mysterious white man, married to a black woman. Much of the novel involves the gradual discovery over time of the true identity of this man, Mr. Watts. His wife, Grace, appears to be suffering from depression. With few school books or other academic resources, Mr. Watts teaches the island children, from Great Expectations. The main character of the novel, Pip, captures Matilda's imagination and soon she reflects about her own experiences and compares them to the experiences of Pip. As the influence of Great Expectations increases for Matilda, her mother becomes concerned and a rivalry develops between Mr. Watts and Matilda's mother Dolores.
This novel is about the power of the narrative to not only entertain but to allow reflection on personal experience. Life is so full of many experiences, many of which we barely have time to remember, or analyze. The power of novels is their ability to help people, at a conscious or unconscious level, organize their experiences and put meaning or new meaning on life experiences. There is a wonderful passage in this novel where Great Expectations disappears and the students, with the help of Mr. Watts, reconstructions the story. The story is more than just a parable on the power of the narrative form, though this is certainly a characteristic of this novel. The scenes where the children reconstruct the novel from memory or the scenes where Mr. Watts agrees to tell the military insurgents the story of Mr. Pip every night for 6 nights are brilliant. The early chapters where island life and myth infiltrate the story line and dialogue are magical. The final chapters where Matilda is an adult and reflects upon her childhood are beautifully written. This novel is highly recommended. - Mr Pip ,by LLoyd Jones, is an onion of a novel. By that I mean it is layered in an intricately woven manner to encompass a myriad of themes. At first it is a deceptively simple tale set on the lush tropical island of Bouganville where the native population,isolated and blockaded, are facing a civil war of deprivation and horror.Into the mix comes the only white inhabitant who remained after others fled,Mr Watts. He steps up to take over the abandoned schoolhouse and thus becomes the Pied Piper of Bouganville. Through his storytelling of Dicken's Great Expectations he provides a safe haven for the war stricken children . They immediately succomb to the power of the written word and are transported to Victorian England where they meet Pip who in some ways is like each one of them. Imagination takes them away from the immediate horror of civil war. Mr Pip becomes a savior of sorts especially to Matilda, the young Narrator. But Mr Watt's hold on the children causes issues with the parents who see his approach as a threat to religious beliefs and cultural allegiance. These differences of culture and dogmatic approach lead to a stand off between Mr Watts and Dolores, Matilda's mother. This clash will create unlikely heroes as the war encroaches and moral decisions must be made. There is great symbolism here for a world where races and cultures face major changes in an ever more global world. When the only copy of Great Expectations disappears and the soldiers demand to see a fictional Mr Pip,(who they believe to be a real spy) there are terrible reprecussions. Storytelling becomes the weapon of choice at first, as it soothes the savage rambos who are really just misguided school children at heart.The seven nights of Mr Watts' storytelling are a heroic vehicle to stall until an escape plan is put into effect. But storytelling has created a great dilemma too, as there is no real Mr. Pip to offer up to the demanding redskins who appear savagely and without warning. I will not divulge any more of the plot but suffice it to say that Great Expectations causes major life changing effects as Matilda moves into a future off the island. The novel is a homage to literature, to teachers who change destinies, to clashes of cultures and racial divides, to the horrors of war ,to the power of the written word , to the empowering value of imagination and to the religious and moral values that sometimes must collide and clash before there can be compromises. This small novel offers huge issues to ponder . Mr Jones has exceeded many expectations with this novel.
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