6th Reading of Great Expecations

We are now almost to the end of the book. Its a grat shame to be almost finished with the book. This reading shows alot of charicter and personality of Pip. There were many events once again in the reading.




Pip is traveling through the path and its very foggy and heavy out side. It sounds just like an old horror movie right. Im thinkin htta ok Pip is about to get injured or killed. So he is walking and he ventures into an old antiquated stone yard. He is looking around. and heaven knows what he was doing there in the first place on a night tlike that anyways. Just as i had predicted his candle gets blown out and a rope around his necka nd he is now in yerror, screaming for help but no one is going to come and save him. A flame is struck and the light lights up the cold and wicked face of Orlick. Now im thinkin that he is going to pull out a murder wepon out and kill him. I am thinking this is the end of Pip. But he doesnt. He starts accusing pip of coming inbetween him and a young woman he liked. He also confesses to Pip that he is the one that killed Mrs. Joe. This comes as a shock to me because i thought he would kill Pip and not Mrs. Joe. Just for the fact that maybe he would just go straight to pip instead of messing around with klilling Mrs. Joe. He tells Pip he will have his revenge . Im thinkin at this opoint. You idiot; you have him tied up why dont you just kill him already. I mean if i was a cerial killer i would just do it and get it over with.


So they are sittingg there and Orlik is telling him all the so called complaints he has. He goes over and takes a drink of liquor and then picks up a rock hammer and gives Pip the look that he is going to kills him. I am thinking that he is going to finally at this point. He starts coming at Pip witth the weapon and just as he is about to be killed. Herbert busts in to the scene with a group oif men to save the day. They are like to old day justice league. There is a big fight but Orlik escapes. But i found it unusual that Pip and the group pf men did not go after him. They went back to the house to make sure that Magwiches escape goes well.

I am very excited to see how the book ends. I am hoping for a happy ending and i think there will be ine with maybe Pip actually havinjhg a happy life for once.

5th Reading of Great Expectations.

This reading was on my lis tone of the best so far. It was eventful and very moving.


Pip is waitng in the mean time for the signal from Whemick to send Magwitch down the river. He still refuses to spend any of the money and his debts pile up on him. He is also devestated when he finds out the marrige of Estella to Dremmil. I dont know why he would be devestated because he was never trated right by her and they werent even dating to begin with. If i was Pip i would feel sorry for the guy that ended up with the unfortunite marrage. Pip still feels bad about the way he treated Biddy. If i was Pip i would be fmore focused on trying to go after Biddy because she is someone tht he can be treated well by and he will be happy with.

Pip is invited to dinner at Jaggers. He recieves a note from Mrs Havisham. When Mr. Jaggers starts talking about the marrage of Estella Molly walks in and he realizes that she is the person he could not picture. She rezembles Estella because she is her mother. He finds it kind of hard to belive. On his way back to the Pockets house he asks his friend about Molly. He finds out that she was accused of murduring a woman and a daughter to try to hurt the husban. Pip thinks that Estella is the lost daughter. Its sounds to me that Estella was taken in by Mrs Havisham and that she was raised just like Pip was raised by hi sister. It sounds like the kind of same thing to me. Mrs. Havisham is very sorry that she made Estella break his little heart, but i think it was for the better of Pip. He doesnt need someone like that in his life right now. She beggs at his feet when he comes to visit her next time. He is at least a nice guy about it and forgives her for what she did yo him.

Mrs. Havisham catches on fire. It seems kind of strange that she would do that after what she did to Pip. Pip sees that she is swarmed in by the flames and he rushes to the rescue and trys to save her. He takes the table cloth from the feast and pounds the flames out. She lives and Pip stayes with her till the doctors leave. The next morning he leaves for London. If i was Pip i wouldve just walked away from the fire because she tried to kill her self. Pip should just leave all of the things that happened in the village and at Mrs. Havishams behind him so that he can move on the bigger and better things. He is 21 and he needs to start living his own life outside of where he came from.

Fourth reading of Great Expectations

Ths reading coverd the chapters of 32-45. Its was a great and eventfull reading.

In the first part of the reading Pip gets a suprising letter from Estella ordering him to meet ther at the London train station. I find this to be very odd because of the fact that she doesnt like Pip as far as i can tell from the way she treats him at Mrs. Havishams house. If Pip likes her so much why doesnt he just confront her about the feelns he has about her to her face so maybe she wont treat him with such ignorance and hatred all the time. Pip gets to the train staion to find Wemmick standing there. Pip is suprised to see him there as well. Wemmick takes Pip on kind of a short tour around the Newgate Prison. Now in Pips defense i am kind of seeing something fishy going on with Wemmick taking him to meet a person that is sentanced to be hung. Just for the reason that maybe Wemmick is trying to say something to Pip. Pip finally meets up with Estella after the short tour he had of the prison. Pip still doesnt really know why she treats him with sucjh direspect. He is just too much in love with her to realize half of the things she does to him when they are together. He feels that it is his destiny to be married. I myself think that is just the foreshadowing coming intop play from when earlier in the book Mrs. Havisham always has them together doing thing and being together just so they can have something that she never had in ther life. Pip later walks her under the dim light streets of London and tries to make it kind of romantic but just as usuall Estella just gives him to cold shoulder and doesnt even trat Pip as if he is a human being.

When Pip returns back to the Pockets that night he is notified that Mrs. Joe has died and Pip returns home immediatly the next day for the funeral.

Reading 3 of Great Expectations

This reading covered pages 113 to 176 in the book. I found this part of the book to be more of an understanding part of life for Pip. He is starting to be more open minded abput going to London and he wakes up every morning and has bright thoughts about the trip. When he goes back to say goodbye to Mrs. Havisham he is locked in the courtyard because he is visiting unexpectedly. When Pip goes top say goodbye he is is kind of sad that he has to leave from the coountry side, but on the other hand he wants to go to London to become a gentleman.

Mr. Pumblechook invites Pip to his house for a celebration dinner and for wine to celebrate. I myself would not take the offer of food because of the way he is trated by Mr. Pumblechook. He treats him like he has no respect fo his personal being. For example when they are at dinner in the beginning of the book he is always putting Pip down and telling him he is always wrong.

I feel that there might be a chemistry between Biddy and Pip bcause of the way they feel about eachother. Biddy has feelings for Pip and she feels with a great amount of love towards Pip. Pip on the other hand doesnt have as strong of feelings toward Biddy.

When Pip is in London he finds out that the high life is all it cracked up to be. The

Reading 2 of Great Expectations

In the second reading of this book i am starting to get the hang of reading at the level of vocabulary the Charles Dickens uses.



I found this reading to be just as eventful as the first. In the beginning of this reading Pip goes the the bar to get Joe and he finds that Joe is sitting with Mr. Wopsel and a strange but familiar man. Pip sees the man and gets the same feeling that you would get when you see someone on the street and they say hello but you cant say hello back because you cant match a name with the face. The stranger goes to stir his rum and he stirs it with a file and gives Pip one of those half threatening grins that would scare a young boy of his age. If i were Pip i would've confronted the man about the file and turned him in as an escaped convict from prison. I think that Later on in the story maybe towards the end of the book the convict or a friend of the convict will cause a conflict in the end making the end of the story a total left turn to what we expect it to be. When Joe and Pip stand up to leave and the stranger says wait a minute i thought he was going to tell them who he really was. But he does the total opposite and gives them money. If i was Pip i wouldn't have taken the money because he knows its coming from a crook and an escaped convict. If someone does that in to days society you would get arrested for robbery and vandalism or something would be charged against you in some way. When Joe shown the notes to Mrs. Joe she tells them to take them back to the man. I find it mysterious that the man has just left from the bar after giving the money to Joe and Pip.

The Next day Pip has to go back to Mrs. Havisham's house. Pip is taken a different route this time to a different part of the house. I would have been a little worried if i was him because of the fact that it is such a big house and he has never been to this part of the house and he is taken into a dark and unlit room. When the author describes the room and the people in the room it makes me think that this house is like a place for those who don't have any friends and are a little wacky in the upstairs part of the body. When the people are sitting round the table and are talking. They are going from one subject to another like a bunch of bird brains. When they start looking at Pip he is made fun of in a certain way that they understand. I feel that there are allot of up coming events about to take place in the house of Mrs Havisham.

Reading 1 of Great Expectations

I found the first 55 pages of this book to be quite eventful not only in the advanced vocabulary but the evens that happen. We meet an orphan boy named Pip. He lives with his sister who is married to a blacksmith. When we first meet these two i feel that they are poor and have no money. When We meet his sisters husband Joe the blacksmith he seems like a nice guys so far.

The first even that happens is Pip meets a very Scary and strange man. I think that this man will have something to do with the plot and setting of the story. I think he will effect the setting because he is always in the marshes and that takes Pip to the marshes which changes the setting. I think he will have a strong effect on Pip in the story because he is making him steal things from his own family. He makes Pip steal food from his sisters pantry and steal a file from Joe. I often thought of why the man had an iron on his leg.

When they have Christmas dinner at Pips house he is very observatory about when his sister goes by the pantry or out of the room. When i think of Pip i think of some kind of little mouse who is quiet and doesn't have much to say but is curios about everything. He questions every thing but never says anything else about anything.

Final Reading Of Mice and Men

This weeks assignment was to finish the book. I found it to be very eventfull and i would like to talk about some of the events that took place in this reading.

The first event i want to discuss is the event of Lennie and the killing of his pouppy. I think that it was a foolish idea for them to give lennie a puppy. I think that because erlier in the story we establish the fact that Lennie has a touching disorder and cant really keep anything that is living because he will just kill it. When Slim gave a pup to him i thought that this was going to happen sometime in the story later on. It showes that lennie has a touching disorder when after his puppy is dead he still has to be able to pet and touch it even if its not living. He covers the puppy up with straw and sits for a while and then uncovers it so he can stroke its soft fur. That showes that he cant go with out touching something soft.

This event leads to the next event I would like to discuss. The killing of Curlys wife. I think this event was a sudden turn in things in the story. I didnt expect this to happen to her. I thought that maybe Carlson was going to end up shooting Lennie because of how stupid he was. Where in reality Lennie was actually the killer of Curlys wife. When she asked him to feel how soft her hair was that shouldve been a red flag that something bad was going to happen. Because erlier in the book it says how Lennie cant let go of what he is feeling if he panics. When i got tothis part of the book i thought this was going to be just like the event that took place in Weed. Where now it is way more serious and further more tragic than if he killed a mouse or rabbit, bu he killed a human being in the same manner that he killed the pup and the mice. I now believe that he really didnt know how much strength he actually had and he didnt know how to use it. After this event it leads to the tragic ending to a great story.

The ending shocked me in the sence that Geroge has been with lennie for this long and now he just turns around puts a gun to the back of his head and blows his brains out. Why he thought he would be better out with out him i i think has something to do with the fact that Geroge is sick and tired of having to bail lennie out of trouble in all of the ranches they worked at. I believe that Lennie diserved to die with a little more dignaty than what he had. I think that if Gerorge wouldve just hid him and worked long enough to get the money they couldve left and had the place they wanted and Lennie could lived happily with his rabbits

Reading 3 of Mice and Men

I would first like to discuss the way Crooks is treated by Curleys wife and some of the other hands arounf thr ranch. For example when lennie comes in to Crooks's room he is angry that lennie has come in to and invaded his personal space. I think the reason for Crooks being this way twards other people is that bcause he is blakc and he is cripple. In real life I have noticed that people with disabilities are mostly targeted by other to be picked on. Like on page 73 when Lennie and Crooks are talking and Crooks starts "S'posing" He is actually just playing with lennie's disability to think and comprehend what Crooks is saying about George not coming back that night. I think that Crooks was just messing with Lennie for his own pleasure because he has no one to talk to and and understand him when he has something to say or voice an opinion about Curly's wife. In a way i feel sorry for Crooks not having anybody to talk to and be around. to me it sounds like he once had a good life when he had his dad and three brothers to be around him all the time. I think that maybe Lennie and Crooks will become friends over the time they are at the ranch together. With Lennie always coming in to play with his pup i predict that Crooks will come to realize that Lennie is special and not to take advantage of his disability.

The second thing i would like to talk about is that curlys wife. She is never with Curley when she comes into a scene she is always looking for him or he is looking for her. I think she doesnt care for him one bit because he doesnt listen to her when she talks and her and Crooks aree kind of in the same boat with having no one to talk to when they have something to say or talk about. I think thats why she is always out talking with the hands around the ranch because Curley wont listen to whjat she has to say. But on the other hand she has some kind of power and authority over the men on the ranch because she said that if she wanted to she could have every body there canned and new ones brought in to replace them. She does seem to have some kind of a chip on her shoulder towards Crooks because he is colored and crippled. She is always calling him hurtful names and is threating him by saying she will have him canned.

Reading 2 Of Mice and Men

I found the second reading of the book to be very interesting and eventful. George and Lennie are on the new ranch and have 10 bucks between them. Now days people have more than 30 bucks in their pockets when they go anywhere.

When curley walks in and picks a fight with Lennie i feel that lennie has become a better listener overal because he didnt try to defend himself until Geroge screamed bloddy murder at Lennie to defend himself and fight back against the attack of the fireball Curly. I also think that Curly has learned a lesson about picking fights with bigger guys. This makes me think that now maybe Curley will be canned if he slips up and spilles the beans about the fight thaT took place between them in the bunk house. I think that Curly will tell someone what happened and that he will get fired and his wife will leave him and no body will even care about what happens to him next.

Of mice and Men chapters 1 and 2 August 23, 2010

Of Mice and Men
I read the first 2 chapters in Of Mice and Men of this weekend and found that the two main characters are a lot like the two burglars on the Home alone movies. In fact one of them is actually named George in the movies. For example when Lennie does something wrong George yells at him. In the Home alone movies When Harry does something wrong George yells at him. I think you could switch the characters from the movie to the book to the movies and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference in relationships to their rolls. I think that because in both cases here you have a brain and a brawn. In the book George being the brain of the operation and Lennie being the brawn.

I think George is being fair in not letting Lennie talk when they arrive at the ranch. I think that because it sounds like Lennie has kind of messed up every other job they have had over the time span they have been traveling together. If I was George I would make sure Lennie never gets to speak when they are arriving at a ranch or job. It would be like letting my younger brother do my homework, it wouldn’t turn out in a positive way for the both off us. On the other hand I do think George is a little on the harmful side when it comes to just talking to Lennie around the camp fire at night or when Lennie asks a simple question or makes a statement . That is unfair to Lennie to not have the right to talk when no one else is around to hear besides George.

Hey this is my first blog of my freshman year.