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Great expection chapter 1

February 8, 2016 / / 0 Comments
  • We kick things right off with … a lecture about our narrator’s name.
  • His first name is Philip, and his last name is Pirrip. Philip Pirrip. When we try to say that name ten times fast, we end up saying “filapeera,” and we have multiple advanced degrees.
  • Our narrator is only six years old, so he calls himself “Pip.” Fine by us. This is a 500-page novel, so the shorter the better.
  • Pip is an orphan who lives in the marsh country along the river thames  twenty miles from the sea to be exact. He lives with hismeanie sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, and her blacksmith husband, Joe Gargery.
  • Pip can’t remember his parents, so he likes to chill in the cemetery with their gravestones and decide what they were like based on their inscriptions.
  • Dum dee dum. We continue to hang out with Pip in the cemetery in the late afternoon, chilling with the family graves when, suddenly, a scary-looking someone jumps out of a hiding place and grabs Pip by the throat.
  • Stranger Danger tells Pip to be quiet or else. Then he demands that Pip bring him some wittles (a.k.a. vittles; a.k.a. victulas , a.k.a. food) and a file (a sharp metal instrument, not something you save on your computer). Then he shakes Pip a little, turns him upside down, tells him he’ll cut out his heart and liver if he doesn’t obey, and disappears into the marshes.
  • Pip is thoroughly freaked out.

Great expection chapter 7

February 8, 2016 / / 0 Comments
chapter 7
  • Pip goes to school for an hour every day at Mr. Wopsle’s great aunt’s house. It’s not exactly a rigorous education. Mr. Wopsle’s great aunt sleeps through lessons, and then sometimes Mr. Wopsle performs Shakespeare and poetry for the students, with bloody sword and all.
  • At school, Pip encounters Biddy, Mr. Wopsle’s great aunt’s granddaughter. Biddy is an orphan, just like him.
  • She’s a bit unkempt, but man can she run a store. She basically manages Mr. Wopsle’s great aunt’s grocery store, which happens to be in the schoolroom.
  • One night, Pip is practicing his writing with Joe, and he writes a letter to Joe. Despite the fact that it’s functionally illiterate, Joe thinks this is pretty much the best thing since sliced bread.
  • Oh, turns out Joe isn’t much for reading and writing. Here’s why:
  • Joe explains that his father was an alcoholic and beat his mother often. Sometimes he and his mom would run away from his father, but his father always found them and always was convincingly penitent, only to relapse into a state of perpetual drunkenness.
  • Joe was forced to work as a little boy to support his dad’s drinking habit, and, thus, never had time for school. In spite of this rough childhood, Joe loves both his father and his mother and was with them until their deaths.
  • This ends Joe’s story.
  • After seeing his mother suffer so much, Joe tells Pip he tries to do anything Mrs. Gargery wants and to provide her with anything she needs. He’s sorry he can’t control her temper or her love of the Tickler, but he sure does love Pip.
  • Joe tells the story of how he insisted on adopting Pip, and Pip starts to cry. So do we.
  • It’s super cold outside, and Joe is starting to worry about his wife, who is out visiting Mr. Pumblechook,
  • Suddenly, she arrives proclaiming that Miss Havisham, the Donald Trump of the marshes, has requested that Pip serve as a playmate to her daughter.
  • Pip has to spend the night at Mr. Pumblechook’s that very night and will be taken to Miss Havisham’s in the morning.
  • Pip is confused. But before he can be too confused, his sister pounces upon him and subjects him to serious deep cleaning and scrubbing before she sends him off into the freezing cold night air. Pip is sad. He’s never left Joe before.

Great expection chapter chapter 10

February 7, 2016 / / 0 Comments
  • Pip gets the notion in his head that he needs some schooling in order to become uncommon.
  • The only problem is that Pip’s narcoleptic school teacher, Mr. Wopsle’s great aunt, can’t teach a thing to anybody, because she’s too busy sleeping in her room/grocery store/schoolhouse.
  • Fortunately, Biddy comes to the rescue. Biddy not only agrees to teach Pip everything she knows about reading, writing, and arithmetic, but she also takes on the task of teaching all the children in town.
  • One night after school, Pip stops at the Three Jolly Bargeman pub to collect Joe. He finds Joe, Mr. Wopsle, and a strange man next to the roaring fire, drinking rum and smoking pipes.
  • The strange man looks at Pip through squinty eyes and seems to recognize him. Creepy.
  • Pip decides to sit next to Joe, even though El Weirdo summons him to sit with him.
  • This mystery man is very curious about Pip and about how Pip is related to Joe.
  • Mr. Wopsle is tanked and reciting lines from Shakespeare’s play,Richard III.
  • The mystery man keeps rubbing his leg, and, suddenly, he pulls out a file and starts stirring his drink with it. Pip’s little heart is atwitter, because he recognizes that file to be the very same file he stole out of Joe’s smithy to give to the escaped convict.
  • The mystery man watches Pip the whole time knowingly.
  • As the men get up to leave, the mystery man gives Pip some change wrapped in a piece of paper. Pip is stoked about the money, but still freaked out about Mr. International Man of Mystery.
  • When he unwraps the paper at home, he realizes that the paper is actually money itself—a lot of money.
  • Joe runs back to the pub to return it, but the mystery man is gone, so Mrs. Joe stuffs the money in a tea pot to keep it safe.
  • Pip has wild dreams all night long.
    • Pip gets the notion in his head that he needs some schooling in order to become uncommon.
    • The only problem is that Pip’s narcoleptic school teacher, Mr. Wopsle’s great aunt, can’t teach a thing to anybody, because she’s too busy sleeping in her room/grocery store/schoolhouse.
    • Fortunately, Biddy comes to the rescue. Biddy not only agrees to teach Pip everything she knows about reading, writing, and arithmetic, but she also takes on the task of teaching all the children in town.
    • One night after school, Pip stops at the Three Jolly Bargeman pub to collect Joe. He finds Joe, Mr. Wopsle, and a strange man next to the roaring fire, drinking rum and smoking pipes.
    • The strange man looks at Pip through squinty eyes and seems to recognize him. Creepy.
    • Pip decides to sit next to Joe, even though El Weirdo summons him to sit with him.
    • This mystery man is very curious about Pip and about how Pip is related to Joe.
    • Mr. Wopsle is tanked and reciting lines from Shakespeare’s play,Richard III.
    • The mystery man keeps rubbing his leg, and, suddenly, he pulls out a file and starts stirring his drink with it. Pip’s little heart is atwitter, because he recognizes that file to be the very same file he stole out of Joe’s smithy to give to the escaped convict.
    • The mystery man watches Pip the whole time knowingly.
    • As the men get up to leave, the mystery man gives Pip some change wrapped in a piece of paper. Pip is stoked about the money, but still freaked out about Mr. International Man of Mystery.
    • When he unwraps the paper at home, he realizes that the paper is actually money itself—a lot of money.
    • Joe runs back to the pub to return it, but the mystery man is gone, so Mrs. Joe stuffs the money in a tea pot to keep it safe.
    • Pip has wild dreams all night long.
      • Pip gets the notion in his head that he needs some schooling in order to become uncommon.
      • The only problem is that Pip’s narcoleptic school teacher, Mr. Wopsle’s great aunt, can’t teach a thing to anybody, because she’s too busy sleeping in her room/grocery store/schoolhouse.
      • Fortunately, Biddy comes to the rescue. Biddy not only agrees to teach Pip everything she knows about reading, writing, and arithmetic, but she also takes on the task of teaching all the children in town.
      • One night after school, Pip stops at the Three Jolly Bargeman pub to collect Joe. He finds Joe, Mr. Wopsle, and a strange man next to the roaring fire, drinking rum and smoking pipes.
      • The strange man looks at Pip through squinty eyes and seems to recognize him. Creepy.
      • Pip decides to sit next to Joe, even though El Weirdo summons him to sit with him.
      • This mystery man is very curious about Pip and about how Pip is related to Joe.
      • Mr. Wopsle is tanked and reciting lines from Shakespeare’s play,Richard III.
      • The mystery man keeps rubbing his leg, and, suddenly, he pulls out a file and starts stirring his drink with it. Pip’s little heart is atwitter, because he recognizes that file to be the very same file he stole out of Joe’s smithy to give to the escaped convict.
      • The mystery man watches Pip the whole time knowingly.
      • As the men get up to leave, the mystery man gives Pip some change wrapped in a piece of paper. Pip is stoked about the money, but still freaked out about Mr. International Man of Mystery.
      • When he unwraps the paper at home, he realizes that the paper is actually money itself—a lot of money.
      • Joe runs back to the pub to return it, but the mystery man is gone, so Mrs. Joe stuffs the money in a tea pot to keep it safe.
      • Pip has wild dreams all night long.

Great expection chapter 11

February 7, 2016 / / 0 Comments
 Chapter 11
  • It’s Miss Havisham day!
  • Pip arrives at the gate, and again Estella disdainfully lets him in and guides him down the dark passages.
  • Today, however, he waits in a different room with three ladies and gentleman. These are Miss Havisham’s relatives, and they’re all justsick with worry about her. They talk dismissively of a one “Matthew Pocket.”
  • When they finally notice Pip, they look at him like he were a piece of moldy meat.
  • We’re pretty sure we don’t like these people.
  • Estella takes Pip up to Miss Havisham’s room. He says he doesn’t feel like playing, but he’s totally down to work.
  • Miss Havisham takes Pip across the hall to another big room. There’s a long table with some kind of blob sticking out of the middle of it. Little speckled spiders are running every which way, but mostly into the blob, like there’s a spider convention going on inside the blob.
  • There are slower moving beetles chilling by the fireplace, and Pip can hear mice running behind the walls.
  • So, Dickens has basically just described Shmoop’s worst nightmare.
  • Miss Havisham tells Pip that this is her wedding feast, and that the blob is her bride-cake. Ew. When she dies, she wants to be laid on that very same table where her beyond-rotting wedding feast lies.
  • Miss Havisham grabs hold of Pip’s shoulder and tells him to walk, and so he walks her around and around the room.
  • Pretty soon, Estella and the relatives come traipsing into the room, but Miss Havisham is so not interested in them, even though they spend a lot of time telling her how they’re all worried about her (and how dumb they think some guy named Matthew Pocket is).
  • Miss Havisham has had about enough of this, and she bangs her cane on the ground and insists that Matthew Pocket will stand at the head of the table. This shuts the visitors up, and they all head out.
  • Apparently, it’s Miss Havisham’s birthday, and they visit her every year on her birthday.
  • Estella comes back into the room after having escorted the guests out, and the three of them stand in silence as Miss Havisham imagines her dead body on the table.
  • After some more card-playing, Pip is wandering through the garden and greenhouse looking at all of the deformed, overgrown vegetables when he sees another (totally random) little boy studying. The little boy is very pale and has red eye-lids.
  • After playing twenty questions, the little boy asks Pip to fight. Pip, not wanting to be rude, accepts.
  • The boys find a little protected nook, and the little boy brings over a sponge and bucket of water and vinegar. Pip is a little worried he’s gotten in over his head, especially when the little boy starts fancy footing around, balling up his fists and going over the rules.
  • As you can guess, it’s not much of a fight. Pip basically knocks the kid out in ten seconds, but it’s all very friendly.
  • When Pip heads out, Estella appears out of nowhere, and she’s kind of flushed. She tells Pip that he can kiss her on the cheek, and he immediately accepts.
  • It is really dark when Pip finally arrives home, and he can see the glow of Joe’s forge fire reflected on the marshes.
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    • It’s Miss Havisham day!
    • Pip arrives at the gate, and again Estella disdainfully lets him in and guides him down the dark passages.
    • Today, however, he waits in a different room with three ladies and gentleman. These are Miss Havisham’s relatives, and they’re all justsick with worry about her. They talk dismissively of a one “Matthew Pocket.”
    • When they finally notice Pip, they look at him like he were a piece of moldy meat.
    • We’re pretty sure we don’t like these people.
    • Estella takes Pip up to Miss Havisham’s room. He says he doesn’t feel like playing, but he’s totally down to work.
    • Miss Havisham takes Pip across the hall to another big room. There’s a long table with some kind of blob sticking out of the middle of it. Little speckled spiders are running every which way, but mostly into the blob, like there’s a spider convention going on inside the blob.
    • There are slower moving beetles chilling by the fireplace, and Pip can hear mice running behind the walls.
    • So, Dickens has basically just described Shmoop’s worst nightmare.
    • Miss Havisham tells Pip that this is her wedding feast, and that the blob is her bride-cake. Ew. When she dies, she wants to be laid on that very same table where her beyond-rotting wedding feast lies.
    • Miss Havisham grabs hold of Pip’s shoulder and tells him to walk, and so he walks her around and around the room.
    • Pretty soon, Estella and the relatives come traipsing into the room, but Miss Havisham is so not interested in them, even though they spend a lot of time telling her how they’re all worried about her (and how dumb they think some guy named Matthew Pocket is).
    • Miss Havisham has had about enough of this, and she bangs her cane on the ground and insists that Matthew Pocket will stand at the head of the table. This shuts the visitors up, and they all head out.
    • Apparently, it’s Miss Havisham’s birthday, and they visit her every year on her birthday.
    • Estella comes back into the room after having escorted the guests out, and the three of them stand in silence as Miss Havisham imagines her dead body on the table.
    • After some more card-playing, Pip is wandering through the garden and greenhouse looking at all of the deformed, overgrown vegetables when he sees another (totally random) little boy studying. The little boy is very pale and has red eye-lids.
    • After playing twenty questions, the little boy asks Pip to fight. Pip, not wanting to be rude, accepts.
    • The boys find a little protected nook, and the little boy brings over a sponge and bucket of water and vinegar. Pip is a little worried he’s gotten in over his head, especially when the little boy starts fancy footing around, balling up his fists and going over the rules.
    • As you can guess, it’s not much of a fight. Pip basically knocks the kid out in ten seconds, but it’s all very friendly.
    • When Pip heads out, Estella appears out of nowhere, and she’s kind of flushed. She tells Pip that he can kiss her on the cheek, and he immediately accepts.
    • It is really dark when Pip finally arrives home, and he can see the glow of Joe’s forge fire reflected on the marshes.

Great expection chapter 13

February 7, 2016 / / 0 Comments
  • On the day of the visit, Joe works himself up into a tizzy. He can’t decide what to wear, and puts on his finest digs.
  • He pops his collar to seem more gentlemanly, but the poppage just pushes up the hair in the back of his head so that he looks like a bird.
  • Pip wishes Joe would just be himself and wear his normal workday clothes—as though he doesn’t understand exactly what Joe is feeling.
  • Mrs. Joe, Joe, and Pip walk into town with Mrs. Joe at the helm. She’s wearing a big sun bonnet and is carrying an umbrella and lots of other random items. Pip thinks she’s popping her proverbial collar for all the town to see.
  • Mrs. Joe hangs with Mr. Pumblechook during the visit, but she’s still ticked off that she’s not invited.
  • Estella opens that gate for Pip and Joe, but she doesn’t say anything, nor does she look at them. Surprise, surprise.
  • Estella leads the Gargery men down the dark, labyrinthine passages.
  • Joe is a mess. When she asks him a question, he tells Pip the answer instead of answering her directly, and he tries to talk all elegant but just ends up sounding, um, incomprehensible.
  • Pip is MORTIFIED.
  • Finally, Miss Havisham tells Joe that Pip has earned a reward: 25 pounds as an investment in Pip’s apprenticeship in the smithy.
  • (Apprentices usually had to pay money to get training, kind of like having to pay for school, except you learn a useful trade. The money covered the apprentice’s expenses, like food and rent.)
  • Joe is flabbergasted. That’s a LOT of dough.
  • Miss Havisham sends Pip away, and she tells Joe never to expect more money from her than what she’s just given.
  • As they leave Satis House, Joe is dumbfounded by the amount of money he’s holding, but Pip is crestfallen: he thought that Miss Havisham was going to adopt him or something, and instead he’s just lost Estella for good.
  • When they arrive at Mr. Pumblechook, Joe conjures up a story about how Miss Havisham did not feel well enough to entertain a lady such as one Mrs. Joe Gargery, but that she sends her best regards. Total poppycock, but Mrs. Joe eats it up.
  • When Mrs. Joe and Mr. Pumblechook learn that Miss Havisham has given a gift of 25 pounds, they go CRAZY.
  • Pip is taken to the court that very day to be sworn in as an official blacksmith’s apprentice, thus binding him to the trade for the rest of his days.
  • That night, the whole family celebrates at the Three Jolly Bargemen with a big feast.
  • Everyone but Pip, that is. He’s just depressed.
    • On the day of the visit, Joe works himself up into a tizzy. He can’t decide what to wear, and puts on his finest digs.
    • He pops his collar to seem more gentlemanly, but the poppage just pushes up the hair in the back of his head so that he looks like a bird.
    • Pip wishes Joe would just be himself and wear his normal workday clothes—as though he doesn’t understand exactly what Joe is feeling.
    • Mrs. Joe, Joe, and Pip walk into town with Mrs. Joe at the helm. She’s wearing a big sun bonnet and is carrying an umbrella and lots of other random items. Pip thinks she’s popping her proverbial collar for all the town to see.
    • Mrs. Joe hangs with Mr. Pumblechook during the visit, but she’s still ticked off that she’s not invited.
    • Estella opens that gate for Pip and Joe, but she doesn’t say anything, nor does she look at them. Surprise, surprise.
    • Estella leads the Gargery men down the dark, labyrinthine passages.
    • Joe is a mess. When she asks him a question, he tells Pip the answer instead of answering her directly, and he tries to talk all elegant but just ends up sounding, um, incomprehensible.
    • Pip is MORTIFIED.
    • Finally, Miss Havisham tells Joe that Pip has earned a reward: 25 pounds as an investment in Pip’s apprenticeship in the smithy.
    • (Apprentices usually had to pay money to get training, kind of like having to pay for school, except you learn a useful trade. The money covered the apprentice’s expenses, like food and rent.)
    • Joe is flabbergasted. That’s a LOT of dough.
    • Miss Havisham sends Pip away, and she tells Joe never to expect more money from her than what she’s just given.
    • As they leave Satis House, Joe is dumbfounded by the amount of money he’s holding, but Pip is crestfallen: he thought that Miss Havisham was going to adopt him or something, and instead he’s just lost Estella for good.
    • When they arrive at Mr. Pumblechook, Joe conjures up a story about how Miss Havisham did not feel well enough to entertain a lady such as one Mrs. Joe Gargery, but that she sends her best regards. Total poppycock, but Mrs. Joe eats it up.
    • When Mrs. Joe and Mr. Pumblechook learn that Miss Havisham has given a gift of 25 pounds, they go CRAZY.
    • Pip is taken to the court that very day to be sworn in as an official blacksmith’s apprentice, thus binding him to the trade for the rest of his days.
    • That night, the whole family celebrates at the Three Jolly Bargemen with a big feast.
    • Everyone but Pip, that is. He’s just depressed.
      • On the day of the visit, Joe works himself up into a tizzy. He can’t decide what to wear, and puts on his finest digs.
      • He pops his collar to seem more gentlemanly, but the poppage just pushes up the hair in the back of his head so that he looks like a bird.
      • Pip wishes Joe would just be himself and wear his normal workday clothes—as though he doesn’t understand exactly what Joe is feeling.
      • Mrs. Joe, Joe, and Pip walk into town with Mrs. Joe at the helm. She’s wearing a big sun bonnet and is carrying an umbrella and lots of other random items. Pip thinks she’s popping her proverbial collar for all the town to see.
      • Mrs. Joe hangs with Mr. Pumblechook during the visit, but she’s still ticked off that she’s not invited.
      • Estella opens that gate for Pip and Joe, but she doesn’t say anything, nor does she look at them. Surprise, surprise.
      • Estella leads the Gargery men down the dark, labyrinthine passages.
      • Joe is a mess. When she asks him a question, he tells Pip the answer instead of answering her directly, and he tries to talk all elegant but just ends up sounding, um, incomprehensible.
      • Pip is MORTIFIED.
      • Finally, Miss Havisham tells Joe that Pip has earned a reward: 25 pounds as an investment in Pip’s apprenticeship in the smithy.
      • (Apprentices usually had to pay money to get training, kind of like having to pay for school, except you learn a useful trade. The money covered the apprentice’s expenses, like food and rent.)
      • Joe is flabbergasted. That’s a LOT of dough.
      • Miss Havisham sends Pip away, and she tells Joe never to expect more money from her than what she’s just given.
      • As they leave Satis House, Joe is dumbfounded by the amount of money he’s holding, but Pip is crestfallen: he thought that Miss Havisham was going to adopt him or something, and instead he’s just lost Estella for good.
      • When they arrive at Mr. Pumblechook, Joe conjures up a story about how Miss Havisham did not feel well enough to entertain a lady such as one Mrs. Joe Gargery, but that she sends her best regards. Total poppycock, but Mrs. Joe eats it up.
      • When Mrs. Joe and Mr. Pumblechook learn that Miss Havisham has given a gift of 25 pounds, they go CRAZY.
      • Pip is taken to the court that very day to be sworn in as an official blacksmith’s apprentice, thus binding him to the trade for the rest of his days.
      • That night, the whole family celebrates at the Three Jolly Bargemen with a big feast.
      • Everyone but Pip, that is. He’s just depressed.
        • On the day of the visit, Joe works himself up into a tizzy. He can’t decide what to wear, and puts on his finest digs.
        • He pops his collar to seem more gentlemanly, but the poppage just pushes up the hair in the back of his head so that he looks like a bird.
        • Pip wishes Joe would just be himself and wear his normal workday clothes—as though he doesn’t understand exactly what Joe is feeling.
        • Mrs. Joe, Joe, and Pip walk into town with Mrs. Joe at the helm. She’s wearing a big sun bonnet and is carrying an umbrella and lots of other random items. Pip thinks she’s popping her proverbial collar for all the town to see.
        • Mrs. Joe hangs with Mr. Pumblechook during the visit, but she’s still ticked off that she’s not invited.
        • Estella opens that gate for Pip and Joe, but she doesn’t say anything, nor does she look at them. Surprise, surprise.
        • Estella leads the Gargery men down the dark, labyrinthine passages.
        • Joe is a mess. When she asks him a question, he tells Pip the answer instead of answering her directly, and he tries to talk all elegant but just ends up sounding, um, incomprehensible.
        • Pip is MORTIFIED.
        • Finally, Miss Havisham tells Joe that Pip has earned a reward: 25 pounds as an investment in Pip’s apprenticeship in the smithy.
        • (Apprentices usually had to pay money to get training, kind of like having to pay for school, except you learn a useful trade. The money covered the apprentice’s expenses, like food and rent.)
        • Joe is flabbergasted. That’s a LOT of dough.
        • Miss Havisham sends Pip away, and she tells Joe never to expect more money from her than what she’s just given.
        • As they leave Satis House, Joe is dumbfounded by the amount of money he’s holding, but Pip is crestfallen: he thought that Miss Havisham was going to adopt him or something, and instead he’s just lost Estella for good.
        • When they arrive at Mr. Pumblechook, Joe conjures up a story about how Miss Havisham did not feel well enough to entertain a lady such as one Mrs. Joe Gargery, but that she sends her best regards. Total poppycock, but Mrs. Joe eats it up.
        • When Mrs. Joe and Mr. Pumblechook learn that Miss Havisham has given a gift of 25 pounds, they go CRAZY.
        • Pip is taken to the court that very day to be sworn in as an official blacksmith’s apprentice, thus binding him to the trade for the rest of his days.
        • That night, the whole family celebrates at the Three Jolly Bargemen with a big feast.
        • Everyone but Pip, that is. He’s just depressed.

Great expection chapter 12

February 7, 2016 / / 0 Comments
  • Pip is pretty sure that he’s either going to be thrown in prison for life or be pummeled to a pulp by a gang of rich kids for having hit (twice) the random, pale little boy in Miss Havisham’s garden.
  • But nothing happens!
  • When he returns to Miss Havisham’s, Pip visits the scene of the fight. He covers up some dried blood on the pavement with some leaves and calls it a day.
  • Pip starts a new ritual at Satis House—he pushes Miss Havisham in a garden-chair-on-wheels (you know, a wheelchair) around and around her dressing room and wedding feast room. For almost three hours.
  • During one of these indoor adventures, Miss Havisham notices that Pip is tall, and she asks him what he’s going to do with his life. He tells her he intends to apprentice with Joe.
  • The ritual continues over the course of many months.
  • Estella remains frosty, and Miss Havisham continues to give her jewels and to coach her in the ways of breaking men’s hearts.
  • One day, Miss Havisham tells Pip to bring Joe with him the next time he visits.
  • When Pip relays the message at home, Mrs. Joe is furious that she isn’t invited. Her method of coping is to tear up the entire house and subject everything to a deep cleaning, which is at least better than some we can think of.
    • Pip is pretty sure that he’s either going to be thrown in prison for life or be pummeled to a pulp by a gang of rich kids for having hit (twice) the random, pale little boy in Miss Havisham’s garden.
    • But nothing happens!
    • When he returns to Miss Havisham’s, Pip visits the scene of the fight. He covers up some dried blood on the pavement with some leaves and calls it a day.
    • Pip starts a new ritual at Satis House—he pushes Miss Havisham in a garden-chair-on-wheels (you know, a wheelchair) around and around her dressing room and wedding feast room. For almost three hours.
    • During one of these indoor adventures, Miss Havisham notices that Pip is tall, and she asks him what he’s going to do with his life. He tells her he intends to apprentice with Joe.
    • The ritual continues over the course of many months.
    • Estella remains frosty, and Miss Havisham continues to give her jewels and to coach her in the ways of breaking men’s hearts.
    • One day, Miss Havisham tells Pip to bring Joe with him the next time he visits.
    • When Pip relays the message at home, Mrs. Joe is furious that she isn’t invited. Her method of coping is to tear up the entire house and subject everything to a deep cleaning, which is at least better than some we can think of.
      • Pip is pretty sure that he’s either going to be thrown in prison for life or be pummeled to a pulp by a gang of rich kids for having hit (twice) the random, pale little boy in Miss Havisham’s garden.
      • But nothing happens!
      • When he returns to Miss Havisham’s, Pip visits the scene of the fight. He covers up some dried blood on the pavement with some leaves and calls it a day.
      • Pip starts a new ritual at Satis House—he pushes Miss Havisham in a garden-chair-on-wheels (you know, a wheelchair) around and around her dressing room and wedding feast room. For almost three hours.
      • During one of these indoor adventures, Miss Havisham notices that Pip is tall, and she asks him what he’s going to do with his life. He tells her he intends to apprentice with Joe.
      • The ritual continues over the course of many months.
      • Estella remains frosty, and Miss Havisham continues to give her jewels and to coach her in the ways of breaking men’s hearts.
      • One day, Miss Havisham tells Pip to bring Joe with him the next time he visits.
      • When Pip relays the message at home, Mrs. Joe is furious that she isn’t invited. Her method of coping is to tear up the entire house and subject everything to a deep cleaning, which is at least better than some we can think of.

great expectation summary 18

February 2, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Summary: Chapter 18

At the pub one evening, Pip sits in a crowd listening to Wops le read the story of a murder trial from a newspaper. A stranger begins questioning Wops le about the legal details of the case. Pip recognizes him as the large, dark man he met on the stairs at Miss Havisham Pip and the boys are sitting around the fire listening to mr woopsle giving a dramatic reading

greate expection chapter summary 17

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Summary: Chapter 17

Biddy moves in to help nurse Mrs. Joe. Pip visits Saris House again and notices how bleak it is without Estella. He walks with Biddy on Sunday and confides to her his dissatisfaction with his place in life. Although he seems to be attracted to Biddy, he tells her the secret of his love for Estella. When Biddy advises him to stay away from Estella, Pip is angry with her, but he still becomes very jealous when Or lick begins trying to flirt with her.

Chapter 5 Great Expectations

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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

Great Expectations Chapter 4

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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.