Questions-Rabia Afzaal

 

·         Why was Mrs. Havisham wearing a dirty wedding dress? What did that symbolize?

·         Why did pip decide to make the decision of helping the prisoner?

·         Why did Pip want to go home when he went to Mrs. Havishman’s house?

·         Did pip like estella when he first met her? What was her first impression?

·         Did estella like Pip when she first met pip? What was her impression?

Most Memorable Moment

 

            The most important moment in my section was when the main character, Pip meets a prisoner while he was visiting his parent’s grave. Pip is an orphan who lives in the marsh country along the river, twenty miles from the sea. He lives with his mean sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, and with her loving husband, Joe Gargery. Pip’s parents died before he was old enough to have memories. So he likes to visit them in the graveyard with their gravestones. One day while he was visiting them, he comes across this young prisoner who has escaped from a nearby prison. The dirty young man grabs Pip by the throat and threatens him. The man demands pip to bring him some food and a file. That evening, Pip comes home and steals pork pie and his dinner which was bread and takes a file from Joe.

            The next morning, Pip goes and visits the prisoner to give him what he had asked for. First he sees another prisoner and thinks it’s the one who threatened him but he was wrong. After a little search, he found him and gives him the food and the file. The prisoner was shocked because he didn’t really expect Pip to come and give him what he needed to survive. Pip then leaves feeling guilty and expecting police at his door step because he believes what he had done was wrong. He stole from his sister and didn’t tell his best friend Joe about anything that happened.

            This was important in my section because first he helped a prisoner who had escaped and also felt guilty because he did not inform his best friend, Joe. He felt that Joe would hate him and how he has lost his trust for him. Joe was Pip’s best friend after he was adopted and his parent’s death. He felt like he could share anything with him and Joe was the only one that could understand him. Joe was known for his kindness and was a very loving person. After Joe told Pip that he insisted Pip’s sister to adopt him and take care of him, he was in tears. This brought his closer to Joe because he actually thought someone loved him and actually cared about him. 

 

                                                                                                            Rabia Afzaal

Response to question

by: Karla Gomez

Re-read Pip’s speech to Biddy and Joe (483- 484). What does he say? Why is his speech significant?

    Throughout most of the novel, Biddy represents the opposite of Estella; she is plain, kind, moral, and of Pip’s own social class., but their relationship goes nowhere as Pip love for estella is still alive so she marries Joe.he begs Joe and Biddy to forgive him all his ungrateful behaviour and begs them both that in future when they have a son of their own they should not tell their son how thankless and ungenerous he has been. Both Joe and Biddly of course refuse to do just that. “But I must say more. Dear Joe, I hope you will have children to love, and that some little fellow will sit in this chimney corner of a winter night, who may remind you of another little fellow gone out of it for ever. Don't tell him, Joe, that I was thankless; don't tell him, Biddy.”Pip has decided to remain a bachelor for the rest of his life consequent to his failure of his 'expectations' in getting married either to Estella or Biddy and he begs Biddy to allow him to adopt their son Pip. Biddy refuses saying that he must get married and have children of his own.

First Impression

by: Karla Gomez

      The novel’s first 20 pages of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens ,talks about a young child named Philip Pirrip but as he was unable to pounce it as a child he called him self “Pip” , who is an orphan living in the country with his sister, whom Pip calls Mrs. Joe. This show a hard relationship with her, almost like a teacher and student relationship in the other hand there’s Mrs. Joe’s  husband Joe Gargery who is kind to pip. The novel tell us about one night  that Pip gets in trouble with Mrs. Joe he runs into a scary commentary where he meets a convict and has a weird relationship with where sometimes he is friendly and sometimes he is dangerous.
My impression of Great Expectations so far is that the book relates about human society and relationship with others and the difficulty when you are not able to carry your self such as a child but no one also does , at least not properly and it aslo foreshadows that the book might be about money and reaching society expectations of power and wealth , where feelings take a smaller place.

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”.

Character Analysis

by : Karla Gomez

The 3 most influential characters in my section are: Pip, Herbert & Estella.

Pip:

1Q; what does Herbert friendship means to you?

A: I appreciate Herbert’s friendship, because we treat each other like brothers and understand what we are going through and try to help each other; I have someone to tell my secrets to, “My dear Herbert, I have something very particular to tell you.”pg.220, and sees ways to understand and help me, “Oh! She is thousands of miles away, from me,” pg. 221, and he keeps me hopeful of my dreams.

2Q: What are your hopes with Estella?

A: I’ve loved her since the first time I saw her, but she seems of no interest, hopefully now with my studies and new fortune we might end up in marriage, and approved by Miss Havisham, her mother.

3Q: What is something you look forward to now being an adult?

A: Now that i am 21 and adult, I look forward receiving the regular income from my fortune, and I find a great sense of excitement to find who might be my mysterious benefactor. And maybe help my friend Herbert’s way into merchant business.

4Q: what are some of your motives?

A: I would like to be a rich gentlemen who is worthy of Estella and is able to lean and teach others, “Say you’ll help me be good then”pg.263, always trying to get better and thank others for helping me, “I thank you ten thousand times”pg.263.

5Q: What was something that might not be something you are proud of from your past?

A: I might had made some mistakes and not behaved my best, once a blacksmith, a poor uneducated boy. But I look forward getting better and being successful.

6Q: What do you think is holding in the future?

A: Now that i know that the convict i helped back in my childhood is actually the man responsible for my fortune i now realize my marriage with Estella is not meant to be and now i worry for what i thought to be so true could be so wrong.

Herbert:

1Q: Describe your friendship with Pip.

A: My friendship with pip is more than a brotherly one, we support each other and I help him realize he is not longer the little blacksmith he once was, “a good fellow, with impetuosity and hesitation, boldness and diffidence, action and dreaming, curiously mixed in him”pg.221.

2Q: How strong is your friendship with Pip?

A: Our relationship is very strong; I am able to recognize his feelings without even asking him or knowing the situation, “Told me! You have never told me when you have got your hair cut, but I have had senses to perceive it.-”pg.220

3Q:What are some of your hopes ?

A: I hope I can get my way into merchant business and earning enough money  I may marry Clara Barley.

4Q: What do you do the most?

A: I give a lot of advice and help Pip get his thoughts together so he can make a wise thought trough decisions and question him when he is not sure, “you feel convinced that you can take no further benefits from him : do you ?” pg 307.

5Q: What is more important, money or education?

A: Education is way more important, money has al limit but knowledge doesn’t, having an education can help you get a job and produce and multiply any kind of money that is given to you.

6Q: What is one characteristic that can describe you the best?

A: I am realistic, as a lot of people i have hope and dreams but I try to keep them down to earth and knowing that they are things i could success at with hard work.

Estella:

1Q: What is your relationship with Pip?

A: He is just another admirer, trying to fight for my love , but even though he now has money and somewhat of an education I know he still a low life boy that my mother Miss Havisham , would never accept.

2Q: What is your relationship with Miss Havisham?

A: My mother is my role model, “I who have sat on this same hearth on the little stool that is even now beside you there, learning your lessons and looking up into your face, when your face was strange and frightened me!” pg271.She’s all I’ve ever known and i follow her teachings.

3Q: What is one characteristic that represents you the best?

A: I am stubborn to anyone who is not my mother, I talk what I think or at least know is true and try to not take advice from people, mostly Pip. My answers are cold and short “Well!”Pg.276 and I try to keep my feelings as less noticeable as I can.

4Q : What was your life before you were adopted by Miss Havisham?

A: i was daughter of a magwitch, the coarse convict; therefore i was part of the very lowest level of society. The magwitch was a noble man, when raised by Miss Havisham i was forced to destroy my ability to express emotion.

5Q: What is the effect on your life for the lack of emotion.

A: i make poor life decisions and don’t think trough how my actions may affect me in the future or affect anyone around me , i try to make my mother proud and show her i learned well.

6Q: What do you predict may happen?

A: i think Pip will be happy without me and will find someone who loves him as he much loves me , it is better that way for his own sake and my reputation. He will be a successful man and i hope we might meet in the future.

Questioning and Critical Thinking

by: Natasha Thasan

1.  Re-read Pip’s speech to Biddy and Joe (483- 484). What does he say? Why is his speech significant?
2. What advice does Biddy give to Pip after returning 11 years later? Do you think she is looking out for Pip’s best interest?
3. Do you believe Miss Havisham when she told Pip that raising Estella “meant to save her from misery liker her own”? Why or Why not
4. Explain Magwitch’s belief that life is a river. Do you think the metaphor is appropriate (chapter 54)?
5. Why did Miss Havisham dress catch on fire? Do you think the author want the readers to believe it was an accident (chapter 49)?

Work Cited

Dickens, Charles. The Great Expectations. London: Sovereign 1860. Print