Joanna Trim
English 9
September 18, 2014
Journal on Great Expectations
Chapters 1-3
1.Book started by introduction of the narrator,using the first person words such as “I” in the sentence “My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.”(Dickens,1).
2.Pip reveals most of his family members,who he lives with, and his orphancy.Pip’s mother and father are dead,and he lives with his sister and her husband who’s profession is a blacksmith.
3.Pip tries to visualize his parents using the engraving on their headstones which I find awfully sad,his description of them were “The shape …show more content…
5.After being interroagted by the man,Pip startes to be described by the old man, by saying “You young dog,’ said the man, licking his lips, ‘what fat cheeks you ha’ got.’” I can infer that Pip was crying before,and his cheeks were probably …show more content…
4.After the occurrence, sooner or later passes. Pip lives with his liable mystery and battles to learn perusing and composing at Mrs. Wopsle's school.
5.At school, Pip becomes a close acquaintence with Biddy, the granddaughter of the instructor.
6.One day, Joe and Pip sit talking; the unskilled Joe appreciates a bit of composing Pip has quite recently done. All of a sudden, Mrs. Joe rushes in with Pumblechook. Profoundly vain, they uncover that Pumblechook has organized Pip to go play at the place of Miss Havisham, a rich old maid who exists adjacent.
7. Mrs. Joe and Pumblechook trust she will make Pip's fortune, and they want to send him home with Pumblechook before he goes to Miss Havisham's the following day. The kid is given a harsh shower, wearing his suit, and taken away by Pumblechook.
Chapter 8-11
8.Over breakfast the following morning, Pumblechook sternly barbecues Pip on augmentation issues.
9.At ten, he is taken to Miss Havisham's house, Satis House. The door is bolted, and a little, extremely wonderful young lady comes to open