The school is well respected but not particularly prestigious. In 1870, he is hired by the Brookfield Preparatory School for boys. One of his first memories is visiting the Great Exhibition of 1851, a world-famous event that solidified London as a world-class city. Chips’s stream of memories he also relied on dialogue from other character to demonstrate the affection that the students had for Mr. Hilton relied on an omniscient third person voice, which keeps the reader in Mr. Chips’s head, and the story progresses based on the impact Mr. The episodic novel is linear with no driving plot. Chips spends his youth and entire adult life working for Brookfield School, a fictional preparatory school in southeast England. Chips safe from the cold, because his lungs are very weak.

Wickett, the landlady, has been tasked by the doctor with keeping Mr. The doctor says he should not venture out in the cold, but also has to admit that Mr. Chips, an eighty-five-year-old man who takes every opportunity to confirm that he is not ill and about to die. Chips has the major themes of mortality, the value of education, and reverence for one’s forebears. The book has been charged with sentimentally, but it remains a classic for its endearing tale of a beloved teacher and its chronicling of major social events, including the Glass Palace Exhibition (1851) the Franco-Prussian War (1870) World War 1 (1914-1918) and the rise of Hitler (1933). Published in a newspaper then reprinted as a book in 1934, the novella became a best-seller and would be adapted to film twice. Chips) Hilton dedicated it to his father, who was a school teacher. It follows the thoughts and memories of a popular English schoolteacher, Mr.

Screenwriter and novelist James Hilton (1900-1954) wrote the psychological novel Goodbye, Mr.

Good bye mr chips by james hilton