Day: 1 February 2016

The soldiers just wants  Joe and Pip to fix their handcuffs. His sister forget about what happens with the missing food and pip is relived. The soldiers invite Joe and Pip to go help them find the missing convicts. Pip and Joe are really excited about this..

Pip becomes scared when he sees the two convicts and is convinced that the convict will recognize him. The younger of the convicts tells the police that the older was trying to kill him.

The two convicts are taken away to the convict ships that loom in the horizon, on the marshes

CHAPTER 4

When pip gets back to the house he expects the police man to be there and his sister to have found that the pie had gone missing to his relief this didn’t happen

Mrs. Joe is angry with Joe as he said he had been to the Carols and that all she was good for was cleaning and tidying when the other could do what they wanted. She made Joe and Pip go to church in clothes that don’t fit them. Pip’s is still scared and upset at what he has done , and yet he fears the church won’t protect him from the convict.

When they return home from church the visitors are there. Mrs Joe is very nice to them because of the visitors, pip is not allowed to talk, the visitors are always trying to make Pip feel silly and tell him he should be more grateful to his sister for taking care of him. Joe keeps giving Pip gravy to comfort him. Mrs. Joe complains about the illnesses, colic, and injuries that Pip suffered.

As the meal goes on Pip because nervous when Mrs. Joe serves the brandy, which he had filled with water to hide the fact that he took some. He expects for the uncle to complain it is weak, but the uncle chokes and claims it is tar water. Then he gets more scared when Mrs Joe goes to get the pie that he has stolen, when he hears the soldiers come he wants to run away.