High School Student Scholarship Essay Contest
Archive of Winning Essays

2009

• Ben Gittelson, Atlanta, GA
  "Great Expectations: Pip's Moral Journey as a Message for America"
  (Great Expectations)
  
  
• Larissa Walder, Madison, WI
  "Conscious Change"
  (Great Expectations)

2008

• Ruth Li, Logan, UT
  "Pip's Forward Thinking: Dickens' Message of Moral Progression"
  (Great Expectations)
  
  
• Grace Lin, Fremont, CA
  "The Power of Reformation"
  (A Christmas Carol)

2007

• Sarah Bufkin, Atlanta, GA
  "Charles Dickens: In His Time and in Ours"
  (A Tale of Two Cities)
  
  
• Wendy Graver-Dowd, San Ramon, CA
  "Disunity in Diversity: Dickens as a guide to today's social contrasts"
  (Great Expectations)

2006

• Sam Greene, Claremont, CA
  "Pointing Ever Upwards: Dickens' Novels as a Guide to Good Living"
  (David Copperfield)