Hate Depicted In Charles Dickens Great Expectations

Today our world is filled with hate. There are wars between countries and groups of people, there are unloving relationships, and there are countless hateful insults that people are called daily. Unfortunately, indirectly or directly, teenagers get caught up in a lot of these issues and can have a devastating impact and fill the individual with hate. This is common in high school especially with the diverse group of personalities and different types of people. Teens can completely forget who they actually are or who they are striving to be and begin to conform with societies hate. By completing the secret benefactor experiment, based off the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens', we will try and replace the hate with love and generosity.
I noticed my peers in the class having similar feelings, with lots of smiles and anticipation as Mrs.Walker walked around to each person delivering gifts. Now, of course like everything there were some struggles during the activity as well. One major temptation was to tell someone who the person I was giving gifts to was, I remember after school on the day we got assigned our people I wanted to at least tell one person, but like Magwitch had to do and Pip for that matter, we had to keep our identities completely a secret so I resisted the urge and in the end it ended up paying off. Personally, I believe the best part about the activity was the gift giving. I loved seeing everyone's faces when they got their gifts and then the thank you's that would be shouted around the room. Like everyone, I also liked receiving my gifts and seeing what my benefactor had done for that week, it was always a nice ending to a week and provided a little extra happiness to my day. In total, the experience was a great one, and when the four weeks ended I was super excited to find out who my benefactor was and to give them a more formal thank