1) Pip is a young boy who was raised by his mean sister Joe. Her husband Joe is Pip's best friend and he is the father figure in Pip's life as his parents are dead. One day while Pip is in the cemeter,y he gets attacks by a convict who scares Pip into bringing him a file and some food. Pip does this and he is very nervous the rest of the days that someone will find out what he did. He also starts to get scared that his convict will get caught. When his convict gets caught fighting another man, he takes the blame for stealing the food that Pip stole. A few days later a wealthy lady named Miss Havisham invites Pip to come play with her adopted daughter Estella. She has raised Estella to become a heartbreaker in order to achieve revenge in the male species. In the Satis house all the plants are dead, the clocks are stopped at the same time, and there is a wedding cake full of mold and rats. Miss Havisham was abandoned on her wedding day and she never cleaned anything up and is still in her dirty wedding dress. As Pip and Estella play, Estella comments on Pip's thick boots and clothes and makes him feel bad to the point he even starts crying. On another day when Pip comes back to the house, he politely agrees to fight a little boy in the backyard and he wins. Estella then allows Pip to give her a kiss on her cheek. Miss Havisham allows Pip to invite Mr. Joe over and Pip excitedly tells Joe. At a bar, a man who is using the file Pip gave his convict to stir his coffe leaves Pip with a lot of cash. At the house Miss Havisham gives Joe a lot of money too as an investment for Pip's apprentice dream. Pip is depressed about the visit unlike Joe as he believed Miss Havisham was going to ask for permission to adopt Joe. Pip tries really hard to become worthy of Estella. He does this by asking Biddy to teach him everything she knows. Later on, Mrs. Joe is attacked and lost her hearing and most if her vision. They don't know who the attacker was as it could be either Orlick, Joe's worker who got in a fight with her, or the strange man who have Pip cash. Biddy then comes to live with them an Pip starts to imagine himself marrying her. Then a lawyer comes to present Pip with a lot of money from an anonymous benefactor who wants him to become a gentleman. Pip agrees and Joe is disappointed. In London Pip recognizes Herbert as the little boy he bought at Miss Havisham's house. Pip gets renamed Handel by Herbert. Pip is still head over heels in love with Estella but Estella still acts nonchalant about it all. Miss Joe does and that's when Pip starts to feel a bit guilty about not spending a lot of time with them. Pip finds out Drummle is dating Estella and Pip is outraged. Pip also finds out that his benefactor is his convict, Magwitch, who Mr.Jaggers confirms. He is then depressed that he left Joe for this false hope of marrying Estella. Magwitch wants to stay with Pip and see him turn into a gentleman but he also needs to hide from the authorities. Magwitch and his friend Compeyson became partners in crime and they were the ones who set up Miss Havisham and took her money. Compeyson is the man who was going to marry Miss Havisham and he had another partner named Arthur who was Miss Havisham's half brother. Herbert helps Pip come up with a plan to go far away with Magwitch but first Pip needs to do something. He goes back to the Satis house and declares his love for Estella who says he doesn't feel the same way. Estella says she will marry Drummle. Pip gets a note from Wemmick saying not to go come as Compeyson is probably in town. Magwitch changes his name to Mr. Cambell and they come up with a plan if rowing him far away. Later Mr. Wemmick tells Molly's story, the housekeeper. She was accused of murdering another women and that she killed her own child. The child was a girl and Pip believes her child is Estella. Pip asks Miss Havisham to invest in Herbert's career and she agrees as long as Pip will forgive her. Pip also asks her to try and heal Estellas frozen heart. Miss Havisham's dress catches on fire and Pip saves her but it is unknown if she tried to commit suicide or not. Pip finds out Magwitch is Estella's father and Molly set him up. Jagger's and Wemmick however tell him nothing good will come out of reporting this. Pip is attacked by Orlick who is drunk and is angry Pip turned biddy against him and admits he killed Mrs.Joe. Pip is soon saved by his friends. On the boat ride to get Magwitch away Compeyson comes and takes Magwitch under the water but Magwitch wins. He is then taken by authorities and Pip begs Jagger's to help him but he says it's a lost cause. Pip is then not worries about money, but instead, about his friend Magwitch. Magwitch gets a long sentence and soon dies but not after pip tells him that his daughter is alive. Pip then gets really sick and Joe takes care of him. He also paid off all of his bills but he calls Pip sir which makes Pip really sad. Joe tells him that miss Havesham's is dead and Orlick is in jail. Pip decides he will marry Biddy and work beside Joe but he finds out Biddy married Joe. Pip wishes them luck and happiness Pip goes off to work with Herbert. A few years later Biddy and Joe have a kid who looks just like Pip. Biddy asks about Estella if Pip thinks about her and he says yes and then heads off to the Satire house. Pip sees Estella there and Pip was right when he thought Drummle would beat Estella. Pip and Estella decide to be friends.
2) The theme of the book was about the different levels or classes in a society. Pip was from the bottom class but he never really cared. However,when he met Estella, he began to realize this and became self-conciouss. He also began to doubt himself a lot and tried to make himself good enough to be around someone as great as Estella. Pip also tries to educate Joe so he will be someone who Pip won't feel bad hanging out with. At the end of the book Pip realizes that he will never become a true gentleman.
3) I believe the main tone in this book was remorsefulness. Throughout the book and definitely around the end, Pip felt guilty a lot. He felt bad that he began to ignore those who really helped him out in the beginning of his life; his family. When Mrs.Joe died Pip felt bad that he never spent anymore time with her before her death. When Pip began to feel lonely, he thought of Joe and how much he truly missed him. He also really felt depressed when Joe began to call him "sir" instead of Pip.
4) Ten literary techniques:
-Parallelism: "A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old tag tied round his head." (Page 2)
-Imagery: "I pointed to where our village lay, on the flat inshore among the adler- trees and pollards, a mile or more from the church." (Page 2)
-Direct Characterization: "She was not a good-looking women, my sister." (Page 6)
-Symbolism: The wedding cake and clocks symbolize how Miss Havesham's heart an life stopped after the day her wedding got canceled and she is stuck in that moment
-Irony: Joe's Tickler sounds like something positive but really it was used for punishment on Pip. The Tickler was a cane with a wax end.
-Personification: "I got up and went downstairs; every board upon the way, and every crack in every board, calling after me, "Stop thief!" and "Get up, Mr.Joe!".
-Simile: "..and it drove still as if the east there were an eternity of cloud and wind."
-Metaphor: "She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent orge, old Barley, had pressed into his service."
-Allusion: "Would you mind Handel for a familiar name? There's a charming piece of music by Handel called "The Harmorois Blacksmitch".
-Dialogue: "Biddy," I said, "I want to be a gentleman." "Oh, I wouldn't if I were you!" she returned.
Characterization:
1) Charles Dickens uses both direct and indirect characterization because it leaves a greater effect of the characters to the readers. Direct characterization tells the readers directly what each character is like while indirect characterization gives the readers more freedom as they can characterize the characters themselves.
-Direct Characterization:
"She was not a good-looking women, my sister."
"... said Uncle Pumblechook: a large hard breathing middle-aged slow man, with a mouth like a fish."
-Indirect Characterization:
"She laughed contemptuously, pushed me out, and locked the gate upon me."
"Shall if I like,' growled Orlick, "Now, master! Come. No favoriting in this shop. Be a man!"
2) Dicken's syntax and diction did not change when he began to focus on one character. I feel like he kept both his syntax and diction constant throughout the whole book.
3) Pip is a dynamic character. Pip is dynamic because he changes as a person throughout the whole book. Great Expectations is a Bildungs Roman so the whole book is about Pip coming of age.
4) I feel like I did come away feeling like I met Pip. I felt this when he returned back to the Satire house when he confessed his love to Estella and made that amazing speech. I felt really bad for Pip because he seemed so lost the whole entire book. In the end when he finally realized what he had done and that he wanted to go back to his regular life but couldn't, I was really sad for him.
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