In The Daily Star, Fayeza Hasanat pays tribute to Great Expectations and the teacher who introduced it to her. An excerpt:
"Now, when I teach Great Expectations, I still see myself sitting in Professor Choudhury's classroom, frustrated by Pip's apparent naiveté. Back then, I could not understand why it took so long for the upside-down Pip to see the world down-side up, the way he really should have seen in the first place, when the convict held him by the legs. I mean, by flipping him down, the convict actually was straightening him up, wasn't he? It was the convict who showed Pip what love and life and dreams were made of—in a Victorian London that flourished by sucking up the life force of its working class people and its colonial subjects. Pip stayed blinded by [E]stella's love, but I saw the spark of Joe's forge glowing in front me, in the eyes of my professor, the craftsman of knowledge."
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