Picture post

I realize that this is the cover of a book...... i thought about the criteria for the blog and thought about how Pip was so little but he wanted to be so much more. So, it made me think of a small creature in a large world filled with unexpected twists and turns. Pip was small and unheard of, as are small creatures in our big world such as a mouse in a large city. Pip was just living his life every day in the same place until he decided to be something more. He left home and aspired to be a gentleman in a big city that he had never been to before. The little mouse in the picture looks like he's trying to get people's attention but they are all just walking past. That wasn't really the case for Pip. Pip went to London and was disappointed with what he saw but he also caught the attention of many people....Unlike this mouse. However, Pip was slightly overwhelmed by all of the stuff that happened so quickly. Just like the mouse.

(Picture from other post)

you see the similarities

Making connections and posting a picture

Throughout however long I've been reading, the only book/movie that I could compare to Great Expectations was Harry Potter. It was kind of a stretch to find comparisons but it worked out okay. Pip and Harry both have pretty cruddy lives when they were little. After all of the stuff they had to do, they both ended up being happy adults, often troubled by their pasts. Pip and Harry's parents both died and left them orphaned and to live with mean relatives. Pip and Harry were both mistreated at young ages but had both made some decisions in their lives that they didn't want to do or had to do to get to their happy spot later on. Harry had to break a lot of rules but ended up being rewarded for it. Pip had to leave his family and everything he loved at home to pursue his happiness elsewhere just like Harry. Harry was not proud of where he lived and neither was Pip. Harry and Pip lived with what they had and made the best of it until they both got their expectations. Harry was to grow up and be a great wizard like his parents and fight bad guys. Pip's was to just live his life and not know who gave him a bunch of money.
While Pip and Harry are out on their own living their lives they meet strange things and come across a new mystery at every turn. Harry finds many people along his travels with backgrounds that you don't find out until way later such as Snape, Lupin, Malfoy, etc. Pip meets people with mysterious backgrounds too such as Molly, the convict form the beginning, and Ms. Havisham and her creepy self. Once again, you won't find out what the mystery is behind the characters until the end of the book. Pip and Harry also come across women they love to. For example, Ginny and Estella. Sure, Estella is a jerk at first and Ginny almost fainted at the sight of Harry but it's the point that I'm trying to get across that matters.  Harry goes on many adventures with his friends Ron and Hermione. Pip goes on his adventures with Herbert and maybe Estella. However, as you can see, Harry and Pip are very much alike and also very different.

Second Stage

One of the more recent characters is Mr. Wemmick. He works with Mr. Jaggers as an attorney for the defensive court. Throughout the times that Pip meets Mr. Wemmick, he notices every time that his hands smell like hand soap. Mr. Wemmick admits that he washes away the guilt from defending criminals in court with the hand soap. Through that, Pip is exposed to more of the real world an how a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do to get into a good place in life.
One of the motifs in the book, Great Expectations by, Charles Dickens, that we had discussed in class was guilt. Pip felt guilty for being ashamed of where he was raised and where his life was going and so he made a difference and did what he had to do change that, even though it made him feel so bad. Even though he didn't like his sister one bit he still felt guilty for not being with her enough and now she's gone and he hadn't once actually appreciated his sister "raising him by hand".

Question in early chapters

One thing I didn't understand was why the convict treated Pip so much better and didn't hostile at all to him after he brought the file and "wittles". I know that he was probably just being grateful that he brought the pie but still, if I was a runaway I would take the food and leave the boy......or get rid of the boy. If someone would like to shed some light on this topic it would be nice.

Question about a passage

I'm thinking that Pip is talking about a metaphorical chain of good and bad events throughout  a person's life. The gold and iron links are supposed to symbolize good and bad things and the thorns and flowers mean the same thing. The flowers are for good things that a person chooses to do in their life and thorns or bad choices. I feel like Pip was hinting towards the way he felt about lying about the event at Ms. Havisham's house. This has been an iron chain link in his life because of the way he felt about lying to Joe and Mrs. Joe. It changed him because now he is more conscientious about his actions.
 I think that the first event in my life that had created my chain was when I was five and I playing on the slide on the playground and i slid down a metal pole in the side of the slide and got a very thin piece of metal about an inch long in my knee. It hurt a lot and scared me too because I couldn't see it. All I could see was the glimmer of the top of it sticking out of my knee. My brother helped me get home and the he took it out with a pair of tweezers and i immediately felt better. That had changed my life because now I am a lot more conscious about what I do. Now I give things more thought before I do them.