Thoughts on the novel.

This book, I feel could have been a better experience if the events were more relate able and less chaotic. The way Dickens writes is very cool whereas he does not just explain people with details of the face but he categorizes them with interesting similes and gives them personification. Apart from the very hard language he uses and terms he explains, the events he chooses for a young kid to go through seems to me that he may have encountered some of these similar events from the amount of detail he uses. Showing the amount of strength that Pip had to face these acts, makes me feel grateful that I do not have an abusive sister, a house I am embarrassed by or the meet of a convict in the marshes that changed my life forever. Seeing that I really do have it good, and nothing to feel bad in my life about.
The characters all turned out to be different than I was expecting them too! That is for sure.
Also this would have been a great book to read if we didnt have to read in between the lines for everything's evidence. But it was kind of cool that some things, you had to think outside the box to understand somethings about it..but just not with everything.

Photo Post.

This Picture seems to represent the scenery that comes to mind while reading this book. Very dull and depressingly overcast. Kind of like Olympia but were just missing the free bound convicts in the forests threatening young children. This book gives of this kind of image because they seem to never talk about sunshine except towards the end of the novel. But that is one reference out of the whole 57 chapters.
This image is not a pleasant on like an image of a sunny, windy road like this one, but this book does not give very many hints of happiness or joy towards the location they live or the people they know. They just sit and ponder about the convicts and crime, and pay little attention to anything else but trouble and gossip.

Making Connections!

I think that The Lion King is a great example of a movie or novel like great expectations. Simba (Pip) has to go through life at a young age, without parents and with a lot of people that are not the nicest to him or the kindest members of the family. Many of the main characters in the movie (The Lion King) effected Simba in positive ways, and sadly negative ways. Uncle Scar is like Mrs. Joe Gargary in ways for both mean attitudes and careless hearts towards Simba and Pip. And they are real family members and still they treat them like nothing! Nala (Estella) is a friend Simba has had since he was little. Although they went through rough times and patches of not seeing each other through growing up, they ended up getting together as they were older and falling in love. Even though Nala was way sweeter to Simba, than Estella to Pip, the same logic is played for the most likely relationship between childhood friends. The Hyenas gang (of uncle scars) could represent the characters that started out mean and scary, but in the end respected Simba (Pip) and were not against him as they were when he was younger. There are three hyenas. The first representing Jaggers for his secretive ways and uneasy scariness. The second portraying Abel Magwich for his coniving threats but the loyalty of love in the end. And last, the third hyena stands for Miss Havisham, although in the beginning she had no love for Pip and always told Estella to hurt him emotionally, she apoligized for everything in the end. and I think that Zazu (Joe) for his nice behavior and he always looks out for Simba (Pip) and doesnt let him go as easily as Uncle Scar Mrs. Joe Gargary) did.

All those INferential&LITERAL Q's :P

INFERENTIAL QUESTIONS:
* When Joe goes and visits Pip, he tells him about how Estella wants to see him and all of a sudden Pip gets very nice. Why? (Estella was always so mean to him)
* Why does Dickens often refer the characters to the form of animals or inanimate objects? do the objects relate them to something?
* In the introduction of London (with Estella) Pip gets treated exactly the same as when Estella treated him when they were littler. Why does he still dream of marrying her?

LITERAL QUESTIONS:
* After taking Mr. Wemmick to dinner (after his show) why does Pip conclude to acting so unhappy at dinner? Chapter 33
* When Pip is riding in the coach car with the two convicts, why does he become timid and uncomfortable, as the convict is talking about giving money to a young boy long ago? Chapter 34
* Why cant Pip like Biddy?
* When Miss Havisham orders Pip to come and play, is she eternally expecting something?

Entering the second stage..

Seeing the many different changes within in the locations or motifs, throughout the characters in the second stage, and they are a few of the characters that make the biggest impact on Pip as a young boy.

MR. JAGGERS: Jaggers lets Pip know where he lives and all about the address by the coaches office. (chapter 20) Jaggers was seen in the house of Miss Havisham on the day of "our combat"(Mr. Jaggers was in the Satis' house but Pip had never seen him there before). (chapter 22)
JOE GARGARY: Joe was still as clumsy as can be when coming up the stairs or reading names off the wall. (chapter 27) Joe gave him a crumpled play-bill of a small metropolitan theatre "Celebrated Provincial Amateur of Roscian Renown". (chapter 27)

* What do you think the reasoning behind Joe giving Pip the "crumpled" play-bill was for?
* How was the witnessing of Pip seeing Mr. Jaggers in the Satis' house so amusing?

Questions about a passage.

When Estella constantly makes fun of Pip and teases him in most of his days, why does she become so frustrated when she sees that he is not in love with her? chapt. 8

Why doesn't Joe stand up for himself and Pip, as they are in an abusive home and relationship with Mrs. Gargary? chapt. 3-14

Why does Camilla often not wish to display her feelings with the most closest relatives or friends to her? chapt. 11

Why does Mrs. Havisham explain the seating arrangements to the (Camilla and Pocket family) about feasting upon her at the dinner table? chapt. 11

How come Mrs. Gargary leave Joe and Pip for Mr. Pumblechook so often? chapt. 13

How did Pip find out that Joe smoked (with a pipe) in the old battery by the marshes? chapt. 15