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.