vocab

why is is that Charles Dickens uses such advanced vocabulary in most areas but in some and goes into great detail to paint an image for the reader to visualize but in other parts(like on page 126 1st line) he does not. ex. "eyes that were very pretty and very good" i thought that this description of Biddy's eyes was lacking something.

question?

who do you think was the patron who gave Pip the fortune?

can anyone tell me how to send an email evrytime i post a blog?

theme

i think this is a story of karma. pip does all these nice things for others, like give food to the convict and push around miss havisham in her wheelchair and visit regularly and then he obtains this fortune. i think he is simply being paid back what for what he did.

feeling bad(follow up)

my pity for pip rose to a new high once we found out about his sister being attacked, orlick tormenting him, and all the existing problems he has going on like how Estella is mean and disrespectful to pip and his social class. then my sympathy fell to an extreme low when pip got the fortune and left his old life for a supposed better life. he starts to have a change in attitude and does not want to associate himself with his own family.

i feel really bad

for Pip. everyone is always talking down to him like he means nothing or hes not even there. Mrs. Joe, on page 12, talks about Pip in front of him to Joe about how Pip is rude and how he asks too many questions. On Christmas day while they're eating dinner the guests are comparing Pip to a pig, while Pip sits in front of them. worst of all when Pip goes to Miss Havisham's house and Estella (which i think Pip has a crush on) mocks Pip right in front of his face while they play cards. all of these people are saying hurtful things about Pip while Pip is in front of them, like he isn't even in the room.

page 28

on page 28, Charles dickens describes Pip's house hold on Christmas day. on this page Mrs. Joe clears the table and offers her guests some dessert and decides to get out some pork pie. as the guests, Joe, and Pip sit at the table Mrs. Joe nears the pantry to retrieve the pie. the deception given of Pip while he sits at the table reminds me of some of the descriptions given to the man in"A Tell Tale Heart" Pip is described as very nervous because we find out earlier in the book that Pip has stolen the pie to give to the convict. then as the cops come at the end of the page, that really reminded me of "a Tell Tale Heart" because the main characters in each of the stories become more and more nervous as time goes on and as the chanches of them being found out increses.

chapter 1

in the first chapter of Great Expectations we learn that Philip Pirrip, known as Pip, is an orphan. he lives with his sister and her husband Joe Gargery. while Pip is at the graveyard looking at his parents' tombstones a stranger comes up to him. he startles Pip and starts asking him numerous questions. the stranger tells Pip that he is not alone and that if Pip doesn't supply him with food and a file, to get the chains off his feet, that he will kill Pip.

questions

why would Pip tell the stanger where he lived when it was asked of him? wouldnt he know better not to tell him?

words i dont know

page 1- nettles
page 2- aforesaid
page 2- briars
page 3 -wittles
page 4- brambles
page 5- gibbet