Most Memorable Moment

by : Karla Gomez.

       Pip now twenty three, has completed his time with Mr. Pocket learning how to be a gentlemen, and now lives with Herbert in a flat at the Temple, a building near the Thames mostly occupied by lawyers and law students. He is unable to stick with anything except reading, and is restless and uncertain about his future and his given wealth. Herbert, Pip’s best friend goes away on business.
The weather has been wretched, cold, and stormy and on one particularly miserable night, a stranger arrives at Pip's home. The stranger knows Pip's name and is happy to see him. Pip is at first afraid of the stranger, then repulsed when he recognizes the man is his convict from years ago. The convict is pleased to see how well Pip has grown and thrilled to see he is such a gentleman. In the course of their conversation, the convict reveals that he is the source of Pip's expectations, his way of rewarding Pip for helping him on the marshes. He wanted to make Pip a gentleman who could live an easy, upper-class life. Pip is revolted and depressed.
He realizes now that Miss Havisham is not his benefactor, Estella the girl of his dreams, can never be his and worst of all, he has deserted Joe for the money of a convict. He is also fearful because the convict came back to England to see Pip and will be hanged if he's caught.
This is the most important moment in my section the novel in my opinion, because it is the time when everything Pip knew, and thought it was real turned to be totally different and unexpected, and he had to face this hard situation by himself and had no one to help him understand what was happening, with no best friend or his teacher Mr. Pocket to help, and he even has trouble with his only real family member Joe, the only loving character he had growing up.
I can relate to his situation by when i started high school, i had made my expectations to big, and when i started i was kind of disappointed since it didn’t look as great as it looks on TV, and i have to go through with my work by myself , i don’t have my teachers to help me with everything , like they did in elementary school and i get less help from my mom, since she doesn’t remember most of what she learned in high school.
I think this part of Pip’s life is important, because it’s the most relatable with the novels title, having “Great Expectations”.