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.