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.