Pip Dialectical Journal

Shane Sukhlal
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
of the letters on my father’s, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, ‘Also Georgiana Wife of the Above,’ I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.”The description provided appealed to my sense of sight.
4.Later on,Pip is scared in the graveyard and was about to cry until an old voice shouted behind him saying “‘Hold your noise!’”Apparently Pip was mistaken for a baby devil.
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
swollen.
6.Pip makes a new friend,an old man who asks him to bring some bread and a file.When Pip gets caught,we are introduced to the “tickler” and tar water.Pip gets away with the file and bread and returne to the man.

Chapter 4-7
1.Pip comes home,feeling in the guilt burn in his heart, and feels it more when he sees a sheriff in the kitchen.And even feels more when more appear at Joe’s house.
2.When he enters the house,he is reliefed to see Mrs.Joe preparing for the Christmas Dinner.We are introduced to his uncle,Pumblechooks,who asks him or brandy,but only sees the bottle of tar water,but just then, officers burst in the house with handcuffs.

3.Pip’s instinct compared to a child is accurate,as he think they are here to arrest him,but they are really here to inform the family of some escaped convicts.Sooner they are captured and Pip’s guilt is gone.
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
it.

10.She dislikes Pumblechook,however Charles look up to Miss. Havisham as a role model for her wealth and his goal is to gain her status.
11.Becuase Pip needed to produce a facade to cover up his experience,he makes up a story about having cake, a dog fight, and much more rich people things.
12.Pip continues to go through hard times with his education,so he gets a tutor named Biddy.On his way to the bar to get Joe,he recognises the file and the drink from a convict.The stranger gives Pip two pounds, which Pip later gives to Mrs. Joe. He continues to worry that his aid to the convict will be discovered.
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