An Adventure With Little Dorrit
Hello! Before I jump into my first post on the blogging world, I'm Catharine Runion. Welcome to my blog! I'm twelve years old, and let me just put it out there that I love to read. Find more about me here. I have always loved reading huge books - the classics, like books by Charles Dickens or Jane Austen. I have read tons of their books, particularly books by Jane Austen.
So this time for my book report, I didn't know what to read, since I've read so many. I settled on Little Dorrit. This was a very bad decision. I have less than 22 days to read it - and Little Dorrit is a huge book! It took my dad (who is an English teacher and had to teach this book) several weeks to read it. He read it so long in this one chair that we officially dubbed the chair, "The Little Dorrit Chair."
I may have made a bad timing decision, but let me tell you, it is a fantastic book (in the two chapters I have read so far). The figurative language is practically dripping from the pages! It is so descriptive. Oh, and it REALLY helps to watch the movie beforehand, otherwise you will be very confused.
The book is about a young girl named Amy Dorrit, whose father has been in debtors' prison for a very long time, so that people call him the father of the marshalsea. Little Dorrit is about how Amy rises from her father's debt and makes a life of her own. There are, in traditional Dickens style, several other plotlines that are all tangled up, but that is the gist of it.
If you are interested in reading classics like this one, I would suggest that you start with something a little bit easier - understanding these books can be extremely hard sometimes. One such book would be A Christmas Carol, especially as we are entering the Christmas season!
~Catharine Runion
