Monday, April 28, 2008
A Modest Proposal Response
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift was an interesting read and I actually thought that this man was considering telling people to eat their children until I realized that it was a work of satire. At the time, Ireland was undergoing bad treatment from England. So, in response to their treatment, Swift wrote this piece about the poor people of Ireland saying that a way to get rid of the poor and fatherless children was to have poor mothers sell their children to be eaten. This way, mothers could make a profit off of their offspring that would otherwise make them and the country poorer. This is obviously a terrible and gruesome idea and Swift was using satire and sarcasm to kind of mock the British. The British all openly thought badly of the Irish and Swift was showing that he knows that they don't like them and he was responding in this sarcastic manner to make them look foolish. Because he is so serious in proposing that the Irish sell and eat children makes the British look very foolish.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Mentor Log 1
On Wednesday April 23rd, I met with my mentor for the first time at the student Tate center. We agreed to meet at 4:30 in front of the Tate center. I called him to let him know where I was waiting for him, and when we met up, we went straight inside. The student center was nice and we looked for a study room. Unfortunately all of them were taken up, so we were stuck outside and had to talk very quietly.
When we found a table to sit at, Nate (my mentor) asked my what the main idea of my project was and what I was trying to get across. I explained to him that I was researching the therapeutic aspects of origami and that I had a research paper on it if he would like to read it to get a better idea of what I was talking about. So he read my research paper and after he finished he asked me what I would like to do during my time with him and how he could help me make my project great. I told him that I really needed help on working on my product and if he and I could work on actually constructing origami while we meet.
Nate then pulled out his laptop and looked up origami diagram instructions on the Internet. when we found some basic easy ones to try out first and warm up we folded a coot, which is a bird of some sort. We messed up on this one and the color part of the paper was on the inside instead of on the outside. We then learned the symbols that described the folding techniques on the diagrams. The next one we tried was a bear, which came with the color side out and it worked out great.
We decided that since we could read the diagrams better now, we should try something a little more complicated. So we tried the famous origami crane. Surprisingly enough, both of our cranes came out very nice and cute. We figured that we had enough time to try one more complicated one before he had his next class and before his computer died. so we folded a paper iris, which is a flower. This one was much more complicated and I had a little more trouble than he did but it came out looking really nice.
By the end of the session at about 5:45, he had to go to class and we agreed to meet again this coming Wednesday at 4:30 again. We said that we may meet on Thursday as well. When I left, I had One hour and fifteen minutes of mentor time down and a good start on my product, which is going to be an origami collection.
When we found a table to sit at, Nate (my mentor) asked my what the main idea of my project was and what I was trying to get across. I explained to him that I was researching the therapeutic aspects of origami and that I had a research paper on it if he would like to read it to get a better idea of what I was talking about. So he read my research paper and after he finished he asked me what I would like to do during my time with him and how he could help me make my project great. I told him that I really needed help on working on my product and if he and I could work on actually constructing origami while we meet.
Nate then pulled out his laptop and looked up origami diagram instructions on the Internet. when we found some basic easy ones to try out first and warm up we folded a coot, which is a bird of some sort. We messed up on this one and the color part of the paper was on the inside instead of on the outside. We then learned the symbols that described the folding techniques on the diagrams. The next one we tried was a bear, which came with the color side out and it worked out great.
We decided that since we could read the diagrams better now, we should try something a little more complicated. So we tried the famous origami crane. Surprisingly enough, both of our cranes came out very nice and cute. We figured that we had enough time to try one more complicated one before he had his next class and before his computer died. so we folded a paper iris, which is a flower. This one was much more complicated and I had a little more trouble than he did but it came out looking really nice.
By the end of the session at about 5:45, he had to go to class and we agreed to meet again this coming Wednesday at 4:30 again. We said that we may meet on Thursday as well. When I left, I had One hour and fifteen minutes of mentor time down and a good start on my product, which is going to be an origami collection.
Restoration Project
The Glorious Revolution was where King James the second, King of Scotland, Ireland, and England, tried to make Catholicism the only religion of the land. He tried to take away power from the Parliament who obviously opposed this, and King James tried to form his own type of parliament full of supporters who shared the same views as the King. These supporters were obviously Catholic and wanted the country to be Catholic as well.
Later, when King James had a son, the Parliament expressed fear that the English monarchy might fall into a Catholic dynasty. The Parliament then called King James' son-in-law, William of Orange, who was a Protestant. William led his army into England and King James fled the country. The English Parliament then gave throne to William and his wife, Mary. The Revolution is also called The Bloodless Revolution because supposedly, no blood was shed during this fight for the rights of Protestants.
I think that the Revolution was important because it established a Bill of Rights and restricted the power that a monarch could hold. After these events, Protestants established their freedom and England became a little more free from a king that holds to much power. I thing that after the Revolution, the people had a little more say so and the government influenced alot of what modern day democracy is now. It was in this time that a Bill of Rights for a country was created, which is one of the basic elements of democracy, the rights of the individual. Another is the lessened power of the monarchy and strengthening of the Parliament, which represents the people. This aspect of governmental change also reflects modern day democracy, that is the voice and sovereignty of the people. I know that this time in English history is not like what modern day democracy is now, but I do believe that these events had alot to do with influencing it.
In the religious aspect of these events, people probably began to be a little more open minded about religion. People probably learned to accept religious differences because Parliament wanted the Protestant religion to have rights as well.
Satire- I define the word satire as sarcasam, to make fun of, or irony. A very general example of the word satire would be a funny spoof of something. Like those spoof movies such as Scary Movie that makes fun of other movies that are supposed to be scary. The movie instead uses sarcasam and makes the movie look funny. Another more specific example of the word satire would be the political cartoons that you see in newspapers. These define satire to me because they take something from a political situation, and use irony to be sarcastic about the situation or person and make fun of it.
Later, when King James had a son, the Parliament expressed fear that the English monarchy might fall into a Catholic dynasty. The Parliament then called King James' son-in-law, William of Orange, who was a Protestant. William led his army into England and King James fled the country. The English Parliament then gave throne to William and his wife, Mary. The Revolution is also called The Bloodless Revolution because supposedly, no blood was shed during this fight for the rights of Protestants.
I think that the Revolution was important because it established a Bill of Rights and restricted the power that a monarch could hold. After these events, Protestants established their freedom and England became a little more free from a king that holds to much power. I thing that after the Revolution, the people had a little more say so and the government influenced alot of what modern day democracy is now. It was in this time that a Bill of Rights for a country was created, which is one of the basic elements of democracy, the rights of the individual. Another is the lessened power of the monarchy and strengthening of the Parliament, which represents the people. This aspect of governmental change also reflects modern day democracy, that is the voice and sovereignty of the people. I know that this time in English history is not like what modern day democracy is now, but I do believe that these events had alot to do with influencing it.
In the religious aspect of these events, people probably began to be a little more open minded about religion. People probably learned to accept religious differences because Parliament wanted the Protestant religion to have rights as well.
Satire- I define the word satire as sarcasam, to make fun of, or irony. A very general example of the word satire would be a funny spoof of something. Like those spoof movies such as Scary Movie that makes fun of other movies that are supposed to be scary. The movie instead uses sarcasam and makes the movie look funny. Another more specific example of the word satire would be the political cartoons that you see in newspapers. These define satire to me because they take something from a political situation, and use irony to be sarcastic about the situation or person and make fun of it.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Historical Significance Essay
The novel Great Expectations was written when the Industrial Revolution was going on in England, giving the novel historical significance. The Industrial Revolution took place in the early nineteenth century. Great Expectations takes place during this time when laborers were in high demand, resulting in many women and children becoming employed and working under poor circumstances. According to Cliff's Notes critical essay, Children and the Nineteenth Century, "Children were cheap, plentiful, and easy to control. Orphanages—and even parents—would give their children to the owners of cotton mills and other operations in exchange for the cost of maintaining them." During this time in History, there were no laws that protected workers from low wages or poor working conditions.
Charles Dickens worked and experienced this particular period in time and the book is meant to take place in this time period as well. Pip was raised in the home of his sister and her husband, Joe, who was a blacksmith. Pip later became Joe's apprentice learning the trade as a child. In these times, Pip would be bound to being a blacksmith for the rest of his life. This is the labor that he learned that would keep himself from starving. Dickens puts a lot of his experiences into the novel in the forms of the character's experiences. This novel gives a great account of what it was really like before there were protective laws like minimum wage, child labor, and the maximum hours a person could work in a week. On average, children would work twelve to sixteen hour days with hardly any food. According to Children and the Nineteenth Century, children "had little protection from governments who viewed children as having no human or civil rights outside of their parents’ wishes, and Great Expectations brings some of these conditions to light."
In a classroom setting, the novel Great Expectations would be a good novel to read in literature as well as history to study the literary and historical aspects of the novel. If you think about it, Charles Dickens is a historical figure himself because of the many novels that he has written based on time periods such as the Industrial Revolution. The novels give you the chance to read about the trials that the people living during the Revolution. The novel also deserves a setting in the classroom because it demonstrates how the laws that we and many other nations have today in order to protect the laborer from poor wages, child labor, and exhaustion.
There are other smaller aspects that are of interesting historical significance such as the currency of money during the time. A good thing to be introduced to in a class, whether it be math, social studies, or literature, is the old English monetary system. This was a system that was divided up into pounds, shillings and pence. While reading the novel, one can tell that a character is most excited to receive a one pound paper note than a sixpence coin, therefore indicating that a pound must hold more value. This historical aspect of the novel, the monetary system at the time, can instigate understanding of the system in a very simple way.
Another historical aspect is the old English social class system. During the Industrial Revolution, there was a social class system that plainly broke down into two simple categories; if you were poor and common, you worked for survival and you worked under poor circumstances, if you were rich you did not work, you instead attended schooling and were spared from labor. As indicated in Great Expectations, Pip hopes to become a gentleman so that he would no longer be obligated into his apprenticeship with Joe, in other words be "coarse and common" in Pip's words. He hoped to become rich and educated to be considered a gentleman to escape the horrors of being on the lower, "common" side of the social class system.
The contents of the novel Great Expectations holds many aspects of historical significance that deserve a place in the classroom and would just as well serve as a strong tool for teaching and understanding. It shows what living with no protection from the government was like, teaches about the old monetary system that is much different from anything used today, and it also shows how the system of social class has tightened its gaps significantly from Pip and Mr. Dickens' times. It paints a broad picture of life and living in the lives of both Pip and Charles Dickens himself. Students studying this novel get a peek into old England and learn about what a hard-knock life really contains. It shows what people in old England had to suffer through to get the laws and rights that many countries in the world have in effect today such as child labor, minimum wage, and maximum hour laws.
Charles Dickens worked and experienced this particular period in time and the book is meant to take place in this time period as well. Pip was raised in the home of his sister and her husband, Joe, who was a blacksmith. Pip later became Joe's apprentice learning the trade as a child. In these times, Pip would be bound to being a blacksmith for the rest of his life. This is the labor that he learned that would keep himself from starving. Dickens puts a lot of his experiences into the novel in the forms of the character's experiences. This novel gives a great account of what it was really like before there were protective laws like minimum wage, child labor, and the maximum hours a person could work in a week. On average, children would work twelve to sixteen hour days with hardly any food. According to Children and the Nineteenth Century, children "had little protection from governments who viewed children as having no human or civil rights outside of their parents’ wishes, and Great Expectations brings some of these conditions to light."
In a classroom setting, the novel Great Expectations would be a good novel to read in literature as well as history to study the literary and historical aspects of the novel. If you think about it, Charles Dickens is a historical figure himself because of the many novels that he has written based on time periods such as the Industrial Revolution. The novels give you the chance to read about the trials that the people living during the Revolution. The novel also deserves a setting in the classroom because it demonstrates how the laws that we and many other nations have today in order to protect the laborer from poor wages, child labor, and exhaustion.
There are other smaller aspects that are of interesting historical significance such as the currency of money during the time. A good thing to be introduced to in a class, whether it be math, social studies, or literature, is the old English monetary system. This was a system that was divided up into pounds, shillings and pence. While reading the novel, one can tell that a character is most excited to receive a one pound paper note than a sixpence coin, therefore indicating that a pound must hold more value. This historical aspect of the novel, the monetary system at the time, can instigate understanding of the system in a very simple way.
Another historical aspect is the old English social class system. During the Industrial Revolution, there was a social class system that plainly broke down into two simple categories; if you were poor and common, you worked for survival and you worked under poor circumstances, if you were rich you did not work, you instead attended schooling and were spared from labor. As indicated in Great Expectations, Pip hopes to become a gentleman so that he would no longer be obligated into his apprenticeship with Joe, in other words be "coarse and common" in Pip's words. He hoped to become rich and educated to be considered a gentleman to escape the horrors of being on the lower, "common" side of the social class system.
The contents of the novel Great Expectations holds many aspects of historical significance that deserve a place in the classroom and would just as well serve as a strong tool for teaching and understanding. It shows what living with no protection from the government was like, teaches about the old monetary system that is much different from anything used today, and it also shows how the system of social class has tightened its gaps significantly from Pip and Mr. Dickens' times. It paints a broad picture of life and living in the lives of both Pip and Charles Dickens himself. Students studying this novel get a peek into old England and learn about what a hard-knock life really contains. It shows what people in old England had to suffer through to get the laws and rights that many countries in the world have in effect today such as child labor, minimum wage, and maximum hour laws.
Charles Dickens Biography
Charles Dickens was born in 1812 in South England. He had seven brothers and sisters and was the son of John Dickens and Elizabeth Nee Barrow. He had a very painful childhood due to his beloved father's many arrests. His father, John, was arrested numerous times throughout Charles' childhood due to tax debt. He worked in a Naval Pay office when Charles was young. John Dickens was remembered as a very nice and generous man and had a hospitable nature.
Charles' bitter childhood experiences began when his father was arrested on charges of debt. As a punishment, his father and his entire family except for Charles, then twelve, were sent to prison. This resulted in Charles being sent to work at Warren's Shoe Blacking Factory pasting labels on boxes in order to support the family. He lived in a boarding house nearby and walked to work everyday. He generally visited his father on Sundays when he was not working. This is where Charles began his lifelong preoccupation with orphans. His experiences during early childhood living in a boarding house and having to fend for himself and his family resulted in his feeling abandoned. These experiences produced the feelings that wrote the many books about orphans and how they became something more of themselves.
I believe that the character Pip in Great expectations, was based on his own experiences in life. Pip is an orphan and is brought up by his terrible abusive sister. Pip's sister, Mrs. Joe, brought Pip up "by hand", or in other words, a very violent and heartless manner. He was brought up in a world of bad treatment and sadness, hopelessness, and in most cases, had to fend for himself and escape his sister's violent hand. I believe that Pip's sister and Charles' mother had a connection in this book. Pip's sister always had Pip doing chores and running hard errands and treated his badly in the house. Charles' mother always forced Charles to work in the terrible factory even after his father's release. This lead to Charles feeling resentment for his mother for most of his life for forcing him to continue his torture. I believe that Charles made this connection between the two women because Pip is an orphan and Mrs. Joe is his mother figure, or the woman who raised him. Mrs. Joe is also married to Joe, who is a very nice, large hearted, hospitable man much like his father.
Throughout the book, Joe is always a source of comfort to Pip and was his closest friend throughout his childhood. Joe was almost always right beside Pip when one of Mrs. Joe's rants was going on. They both endured Mrs. Joe's terrible punishments and violence, constantly pushing them around. In the book, an incident of Joe' s niceness and friendship for Pip shows when enduring a punishment. Pip was putting his bread away in his pocket for the convict and hiding it. Joe noticed and thought that Pip had "bolted" his food. When Mrs. Joe notices that Joe is distracted, she tells him that he will "perhaps mention what's the matter, you staring great stuck pig." Upon realization that they were in trouble, Joe tells Pip that "You and me is always friends, and I'd be the last to tell upon you." After this statement, both get tar water forced down their throats to cure their misbehavior by Mrs. Joe.
I believe that Charles made Joe a figure like his father because his father is who eventually saved him from the factory life and sent him to school to be educated. But when his family was evicted from their house due to unpaid rent, Charles had to leave school. He got a job working in a law firm as a clerk called Ellis and Blackmore. There he learned how to write shorthand and became a court reporter. Later, he wrote some stories that were published in various magazines and papers and picked up the pen-name "Boz". During this time, his father was arrested again for failure to pay debts and Charles bailed him out, becoming the financial backbone for the family.
Heartbreak also became something that Charles indicated in Great Expectations as a personal experience. Charles fell in love with a young girl named Maria Beadnell, who's father was a very wealthy man. After a few years however, her father sent her to school in Paris and he never saw her again. Charles expresses his pain in the book when young Pip falls in love with the rich Miss Havisham's step-daughter, Estella. She is haughty and rude, much like the other women in his book and is later sent off to live with another rich woman and attend school. Pip, heartbroken, does not see her until years later and the book ends with Estella and Pip talking. There is really no indication of whether or not they stay together.
Later, Charles became a very well known and successful writer and exceeded his expectations. This is where I think the story for Great expectations came from. Later in the book Pip inherits money from an anonymous benefactor and learns to become a gentleman. Later to find out that this benefactor was the convict that he helped a a child. Charles becomes successful with his writings and doesn't have to worry as much about money as he did as a child, exactly like Pip. Pip and Charles grow up from troubled childhoods and become gentlemen, without the financial worries compared to when they were children.
Charles' bitter childhood experiences began when his father was arrested on charges of debt. As a punishment, his father and his entire family except for Charles, then twelve, were sent to prison. This resulted in Charles being sent to work at Warren's Shoe Blacking Factory pasting labels on boxes in order to support the family. He lived in a boarding house nearby and walked to work everyday. He generally visited his father on Sundays when he was not working. This is where Charles began his lifelong preoccupation with orphans. His experiences during early childhood living in a boarding house and having to fend for himself and his family resulted in his feeling abandoned. These experiences produced the feelings that wrote the many books about orphans and how they became something more of themselves.
I believe that the character Pip in Great expectations, was based on his own experiences in life. Pip is an orphan and is brought up by his terrible abusive sister. Pip's sister, Mrs. Joe, brought Pip up "by hand", or in other words, a very violent and heartless manner. He was brought up in a world of bad treatment and sadness, hopelessness, and in most cases, had to fend for himself and escape his sister's violent hand. I believe that Pip's sister and Charles' mother had a connection in this book. Pip's sister always had Pip doing chores and running hard errands and treated his badly in the house. Charles' mother always forced Charles to work in the terrible factory even after his father's release. This lead to Charles feeling resentment for his mother for most of his life for forcing him to continue his torture. I believe that Charles made this connection between the two women because Pip is an orphan and Mrs. Joe is his mother figure, or the woman who raised him. Mrs. Joe is also married to Joe, who is a very nice, large hearted, hospitable man much like his father.
Throughout the book, Joe is always a source of comfort to Pip and was his closest friend throughout his childhood. Joe was almost always right beside Pip when one of Mrs. Joe's rants was going on. They both endured Mrs. Joe's terrible punishments and violence, constantly pushing them around. In the book, an incident of Joe' s niceness and friendship for Pip shows when enduring a punishment. Pip was putting his bread away in his pocket for the convict and hiding it. Joe noticed and thought that Pip had "bolted" his food. When Mrs. Joe notices that Joe is distracted, she tells him that he will "perhaps mention what's the matter, you staring great stuck pig." Upon realization that they were in trouble, Joe tells Pip that "You and me is always friends, and I'd be the last to tell upon you." After this statement, both get tar water forced down their throats to cure their misbehavior by Mrs. Joe.
I believe that Charles made Joe a figure like his father because his father is who eventually saved him from the factory life and sent him to school to be educated. But when his family was evicted from their house due to unpaid rent, Charles had to leave school. He got a job working in a law firm as a clerk called Ellis and Blackmore. There he learned how to write shorthand and became a court reporter. Later, he wrote some stories that were published in various magazines and papers and picked up the pen-name "Boz". During this time, his father was arrested again for failure to pay debts and Charles bailed him out, becoming the financial backbone for the family.
Heartbreak also became something that Charles indicated in Great Expectations as a personal experience. Charles fell in love with a young girl named Maria Beadnell, who's father was a very wealthy man. After a few years however, her father sent her to school in Paris and he never saw her again. Charles expresses his pain in the book when young Pip falls in love with the rich Miss Havisham's step-daughter, Estella. She is haughty and rude, much like the other women in his book and is later sent off to live with another rich woman and attend school. Pip, heartbroken, does not see her until years later and the book ends with Estella and Pip talking. There is really no indication of whether or not they stay together.
Later, Charles became a very well known and successful writer and exceeded his expectations. This is where I think the story for Great expectations came from. Later in the book Pip inherits money from an anonymous benefactor and learns to become a gentleman. Later to find out that this benefactor was the convict that he helped a a child. Charles becomes successful with his writings and doesn't have to worry as much about money as he did as a child, exactly like Pip. Pip and Charles grow up from troubled childhoods and become gentlemen, without the financial worries compared to when they were children.
Third novel response
After the incident with the mysterious man in the bar the book has began to pick up and get more interesting. Pip stops going to visit Miss Havisham and she pays for Pip's apprenticeship with Joe. After a while without visiting Miss Havisham, Pip decides he wants to go visit (mostly for Estella) and asks Joe for a holiday from the forge. A problem with the other worker under Joe named Orlick aroused because he wanted a holiday too. He and Joe ended up getting in a fist fight because Orlick began quarreling with Mrs. Joe as well.
Pip and Orlick both got their holidays and Pip went to Miss Havisham's only to find out that Estella was sent away to become educated. She was rude to him and sent him away very quickly. As Pip and Mr. Wopsle were entering town, Orlick caught up with them and walked home with them, much to their dislike. Upon arriving at the house, Pip found lots of people in the house and his sister had been terribly attacked. Someone had entered and whacked her in the back of the head with a hammer. This left her kind of mentally challenged and she was never the same.
Later is where everything starts to fall together. Biddy comes to stay with Pip and Joe to help do what Mrs. Joe could not do. A man named Mr. Jaggers came to speak with Pip and Joe because Pip had "great expectations" and had come into great fortune. Mr. Jaggers told Pip that he was to learn to become a gentleman. One condition was that upon acceptance of the fortune, Pip was to keep his name and was not to try to seek out his benefactor. Pip agreed. At this point I was still unsure if his benefactor was the convict or Miss Havisham. Pip got new clothes and left to London. Some time later, Pip received a letter requesting his presence at the funeral of his sister.
Pip went home and attended her funeral. Biddy told him his sister's last words being "Joe" then pausing, then "Pardon" then "Pip", and laying her head on Joe' shoulder and passing away.
The point where I stopped to write my next response was where the convict came to Pip's place of residence at the age of twenty three and told Pip "Yes, Pip, dear boy, I' made a gentleman on you! It's me wot has done it!" So after all of this time of Pip believing that Miss Havisham was his benefactor so that he may become a gentleman to be with Estelle, it was after all the convict that he helped in the marshes those many years ago. Pip has bad feelings about who his benefactor is and in a sense kind of freaks out. He thought all this time that Miss Havisham was doing this so that she could set him up with Estella. I feel bad for Pip because he has had such a painful life when he really did not deserve it. He wanted to be e gentleman so badly and now he is suffering because he feels bad for accepting a convicts money.
Pip and Orlick both got their holidays and Pip went to Miss Havisham's only to find out that Estella was sent away to become educated. She was rude to him and sent him away very quickly. As Pip and Mr. Wopsle were entering town, Orlick caught up with them and walked home with them, much to their dislike. Upon arriving at the house, Pip found lots of people in the house and his sister had been terribly attacked. Someone had entered and whacked her in the back of the head with a hammer. This left her kind of mentally challenged and she was never the same.
Later is where everything starts to fall together. Biddy comes to stay with Pip and Joe to help do what Mrs. Joe could not do. A man named Mr. Jaggers came to speak with Pip and Joe because Pip had "great expectations" and had come into great fortune. Mr. Jaggers told Pip that he was to learn to become a gentleman. One condition was that upon acceptance of the fortune, Pip was to keep his name and was not to try to seek out his benefactor. Pip agreed. At this point I was still unsure if his benefactor was the convict or Miss Havisham. Pip got new clothes and left to London. Some time later, Pip received a letter requesting his presence at the funeral of his sister.
Pip went home and attended her funeral. Biddy told him his sister's last words being "Joe" then pausing, then "Pardon" then "Pip", and laying her head on Joe' shoulder and passing away.
The point where I stopped to write my next response was where the convict came to Pip's place of residence at the age of twenty three and told Pip "Yes, Pip, dear boy, I' made a gentleman on you! It's me wot has done it!" So after all of this time of Pip believing that Miss Havisham was his benefactor so that he may become a gentleman to be with Estelle, it was after all the convict that he helped in the marshes those many years ago. Pip has bad feelings about who his benefactor is and in a sense kind of freaks out. He thought all this time that Miss Havisham was doing this so that she could set him up with Estella. I feel bad for Pip because he has had such a painful life when he really did not deserve it. He wanted to be e gentleman so badly and now he is suffering because he feels bad for accepting a convicts money.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Novel Project Response 2
After the convict that Pip was giving food was caught and taken back to the prison ship, Pip begins to experience some more "grown up feelings and experiences. It all begins when an old rich lady who lives in a big house and is very mysterious requests that Pip come to her home every now and then to play. Pip endures a temper tantrum brought on by jealousy from his sister, and later goes with Joe's uncle to this old woman's house. The lady's name is Miss Havisham. Upon Pip's arrival, a young girl about Pip's age appears to unlock the gate. She is very beautiful to Pip and he begins to develop a crush. Joe's uncle is left outside the gate, not permitted entry leaving him very angry and walking back home.
Pip is lead up the stairs of the old home into Miss Havisham's room where she is laying down in her bed in what appears to be a wedding gown. Pip also notices that all of the clocks are stopped at the hour of nine and no longer work. Miss Havisham then tells the two children, Pip and the young girl (named Estella) to play cards. During the game, Estella pokes fun and teases Pip on his being common, commenting on his boots and clothes and about how he calles knaves "Jacks". All the while, Miss Havisham is making comments to Pip on Estella's beauty, wanting him to take notice.
Later, after playing cards, Pip is feeling very unconfident and hurt from being called common and being made fun of and humiliated. He is taken downstairs by Estella and given food to eat outside like a dog. While outside, Pip explores the grounds. He remembers something Miss Havisham saying before that about how she hadn't seen the sunlight in years. She sent Pip back with some money that day, which made his sister very happy.
During Pip's visits later in the book, he finds a decaying wedding cake in the dining room. Miss Havisham also gives him small clues into her past about being stood up at her wedding. I think that the way that she is constantly pointing out Estellas beauty to Pip indicates that she wants to see a male get his heart broken the way she did. I think that later in the book, Pip is going to fall in live with Estella, she is going to lead him on and she is going to break his heart for her own and Miss Havisham's entertainment.
After Pip's first visit, he must go to a pub to fetch a half drunken Joe. He meets a man who is conversing with Joe and Joe's uncle who has a metal pick that looked like the one he stole from Joe's workshop. Pip has fear that this is the accomplice of the convict that he helped and that he may be coming to kill him. The convict stares at him throughout the conversation and at the end of the night, gives him a shilling wrapped up in paper. When Pip arrives back home, he realizes that the paper was actually pounds (British money).
The convict hasn't shown up past this point and so far this book is making many twists and turns. I find it an exciting and unpredictable read. I think that Pip is going to acquire something to get him out of his current situation with his sister, and I think that Miss Havisham or the convict are going to have something to do with it.
Pip is lead up the stairs of the old home into Miss Havisham's room where she is laying down in her bed in what appears to be a wedding gown. Pip also notices that all of the clocks are stopped at the hour of nine and no longer work. Miss Havisham then tells the two children, Pip and the young girl (named Estella) to play cards. During the game, Estella pokes fun and teases Pip on his being common, commenting on his boots and clothes and about how he calles knaves "Jacks". All the while, Miss Havisham is making comments to Pip on Estella's beauty, wanting him to take notice.
Later, after playing cards, Pip is feeling very unconfident and hurt from being called common and being made fun of and humiliated. He is taken downstairs by Estella and given food to eat outside like a dog. While outside, Pip explores the grounds. He remembers something Miss Havisham saying before that about how she hadn't seen the sunlight in years. She sent Pip back with some money that day, which made his sister very happy.
During Pip's visits later in the book, he finds a decaying wedding cake in the dining room. Miss Havisham also gives him small clues into her past about being stood up at her wedding. I think that the way that she is constantly pointing out Estellas beauty to Pip indicates that she wants to see a male get his heart broken the way she did. I think that later in the book, Pip is going to fall in live with Estella, she is going to lead him on and she is going to break his heart for her own and Miss Havisham's entertainment.
After Pip's first visit, he must go to a pub to fetch a half drunken Joe. He meets a man who is conversing with Joe and Joe's uncle who has a metal pick that looked like the one he stole from Joe's workshop. Pip has fear that this is the accomplice of the convict that he helped and that he may be coming to kill him. The convict stares at him throughout the conversation and at the end of the night, gives him a shilling wrapped up in paper. When Pip arrives back home, he realizes that the paper was actually pounds (British money).
The convict hasn't shown up past this point and so far this book is making many twists and turns. I find it an exciting and unpredictable read. I think that Pip is going to acquire something to get him out of his current situation with his sister, and I think that Miss Havisham or the convict are going to have something to do with it.
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