Katelyn Buxton’s Reviews > David Copperfield > Status Update

Chapter 1 I Am Born – “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”

Iconic opening lines.

”Gentlemen,” returned Mr. Micawber, “do with me as you will! I am a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants—I beg your pardon, I should have said the elements.”

”You have no mother?”—in a softened tone of voice.
“No.”
“It is a pity,” she returned. “She would have been proud of you.”
*sniffs*

”Look at Truman, Hanbury, and Buxton!”
*jumps*
I don’t believe I’ve ever run across my last name in a book before.

Uriah Heep is Gollum translated to nineteenth century London.

I brushed away the tears that my utmost resolution had not been able to keep back, and I made a clumsy laugh of it, and we sat down together, side-by-side.

I believe someone else already called David a cinnamon roll, but they were absolutely right. ^_^

I think David’s found himself a Marilla Cuthbert!

This is my favorite kind of Dickens. Don’t get me wrong—I love his sense of humor—but this kind of grittily beautiful portrayal of life is what I come for.

”How’s Mrs. Fibbitson today?” said the Master, looking at another old woman in a large chair by the fire, who was such a bundle of old clothes that I feel grateful to this hour for not having sat upon her by mistake.
xD

This is reminding me of Great Expectations!