Month: March 2016

This is a summary of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Chapter 27, 28 & 29

Chapter 27 : This chapter starts off with Pip getting a letter from Biddy telling him that Joe’s coming to visit him in London. Biddy also tells Pip that his sister is the same and that they talk about him every night and wonder what he’s doing.Biddy also adds Joe has a message for him. Biddy hopes that Pip wont be ashamed of Joe because he’s a poor blacksmith but he is. Pip is happy to see Joe . Pip is embarrassed of Joe and glad that Joe wont be visiting at the Pockets’ house where Bentley Drummle might see him. We learn that Pip’s redecorated his apartment and hired a young boy to be his servant but after getting the boy a uniform he realizes that he doesn’t have anything for the boy to do. Pip calls the boy the Avenged Phantom (the Avenger for short), because he always hangs around like a ghost and does not really do anything. Joe gets here the next day and is really happy to see Pip but he’s really uncomfortable in Pip’s apartment. Joe won’t shake Herbert’s hand because he’s too much of a gentleman. Instead he bows a little bit to Herbert in deference to him. Joe notices the Avenger but doesn’t know what to do with him.He also doesn’t know what to do with his hat so he hangs it on the side of a fireplace where it keeps falling down. Pip is not doing anything to help whilst Joe is struggling and is just watching,and he’s happy when Herbert has to leave. Joe tells Pip what is going on back at home : Mr. Wopsle has left the church to become an actor in London and that He and Mr. Wopsle went to go check out a blacking factory the day before, and Joe didn’t think to much of it. Pip is totally just listing not talking through this and is wondering why Joe keeps on calling him sir. Joe also tells Pip that Mr. Pumblechook is saying that him and Pip were always best friends and he is the reason for Pips money. Then Joe tells Pip the reason why he cam , the message . Miss Havisham asked Joe to tell Pip that Estella is back and wants to see him. After telling Pip the message Joe is ready to go. When leaving Joe says “life has taken them in two different directions and that’s just the way it goes.”

Chapter 28 : After hearing Joe’s message Pip decides to go back home . Pip makes a promise to himself to go and stay at Joe’s instead of the village inn. During the journey home two convicts sit in front of Pip. Pip realises he knows one of the convicts is the same man who gave him the two-pound note all those years ago at the Three Jolly Bargemen. Pip is relieved that Herbert found a different name for him because if he said Pip the convict could remember him when Herbert was saying goodbye. The convict tells his friend about him give Pip the money,and Pip realizes that he’s talking about the same story.He’s scared that the convict is going to recognize him, even though it’s probably not going to happen . Pip then gets off early as he’s so scared. When he gets to the Blue Boar everyone there recognizes him as the boy Pumblechook mentored. Pip also decides not to stay at Joe’s and stays at the Inn.

Chapter 29 : Pip is really happy that he gets to see Estella. He decides to go for a walk before he goes Miss Havisham. Pip believes that he and Estella are going to be together and he thinks that Miss Havisham wants them to be together. Pip knocks at Miss Havisham’s gate and see’s Orlick there ,  the bully who used to work in the forge. Pip finds Miss Havisham sitting in room with a lady.We find that the lady is Estella . Pip feels like a little boy again and decides to reject his family and not see Joe. Estella and Pip decide to go for a walk in the garden . Pip tries talking about the old times but Estella can’t remember any of the stories. Estella tells Pip that she’s “Heartless” , she can use her heart for the things is supposed for but there’s no she has no emotions that are associated with the heart. Pip really believes that he’s supposed to be with her. They go back inside and Estella leaves to get ready for dinner and Miss Havisham talks to Pip about Estella and repeats “Love her” “Love her”. Jaggers then comes . After dinner Jaggers, Estella, and Pip play cards,then Miss Havisham puts jewels in Estella’s hair. Miss Havisham asks Pip to take Estella from London to Richmond when she comes to town in the next few weeks, which he’s happy to do .

This is a summary of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Chapter 24 – 26

Chapter 24 : At the start of this chapter Pip and Mr.Pocket talk about learning then we learn Mr. Pocket is good person ,  he’s smart, honest, and kind . He also says it’s ok for Pip and Herbert to live together in the apartment . But first they have to go to Mr. Jaggers to get money. When they get the Jaggers tests Pip to see f he can count after he’s done testing him he gives him 20 pounds . After jaggers gives Pip the money wemmick gives them a tour of his office. Pip asks wemmick to tell him about the cast and he says . They are of two criminals who were sentenced to death one for murder and the other for forging wills and after their death Jaggers had the cast made of their faces. wemmick tells Pip he can come over to eat any time. He tells Pip that Jaggers will be inviting him to his place soon and to watch his Jaggers maid Molly. After this Herbert and Pip head over to the courthouse to see Mr. Jaggers in action.

Chapter 25 : In this chapter Pip goes to dinner at Wemmick’s house . (and his house is really nice) Wemmick asks Pip if he wants to meet the Aged. Pip wonders if he’s referring to a particularly stinky form of cheese. We learn that It’s Wemmick’s father and that he’s deaf. The Wemmick’s dad loves to be nodded at Wemmick tells Pip so Wemmick and Pip nod at him through the night.

Chapter 26 : Herbert and Pip goto eat dinner at Jaggers We see that Jaggers brings out the worst in people and the boys start to fight. Just like Wemmick said to Pip keeps an eye on Molly and he learns that she’s very weird just like wemmick said. During the night Jaggers grabs Molly by the arm to show how strong her hands and arms are.

This is a summary of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Chapter 22 and 23

Chapter 22 : In this chapter we start off with Herbert talking to Pip asking him to forgive him for beating him up and Pip decides not to correct him. We learn that Herbert like Pip when to Miss Havisham to be play with Estella but they didn’t get along. We learn Herbert’s dad is going to be Pip’s new tutor and teacher. Herbert’s a good person he’s honest and cheerful but Pip thinks he’ll never be rich or successful. But he’s a gentleman, and he agrees to help teach Pip how to be one, too. He even comes up with a new nickname for Pip which is Handel.They have dinner, and Pip is thrilled beyond belief. There are no grown-ups around, he lives in London and has a new friend. Pip asked Herbert to tell him about Miss Havisham and he says : She was a spoiled little child (no siblings) until her dad secretly married a cook. When the cook died, he told Miss Havisham that she had a half-brother named Arthur. Miss Havisham didn’t like this . Arthur her brother grew up to annoying. He spent a lot of money and caused a lot of trouble. He and Miss Havisham did not get along .When their dad died, he left Miss Havisham the most money but Arthur still had money. Since Miss Havisham was rich men liked her. She fell in love with a man who wasn’t a gentleman he convinced her to buy Arthur out of his share of the brewery at a huge cost. Herbert’s dad, Mr. Pocket, warned her that her man was up to no good, but she didn’t believe him. She was so angry she kicked him out. On the day of her wedding , she got a letter from him saying he wasn’t going to come.  Miss Havisham went crazy after reading that letter and fell very ill. Its thought that Arthur and the man were working together to take her money but no-one knows and that’s it. Pip asks Herbert what he does for a living, and Herbert tells him he’s a “capitalist Herbert’s dream is to become a shipping merchant and to be rich. He dreams of moving to the Far East where life is profitable. Pip thinks that Herbert will never be rich or be successful. The boys decide to go to the Pocket home next in Hammersmith. When Pip arrives, he finds Herbert’s seven brothers and sisters failing every where Mrs. Pocket, Herbert’s mother, is reading a book but were unsure how she has the time to read. She asks Pip how his mother is doing, and Pip is saved from having to answer when her youngest child is placed on her lap and she can’t figure out how to handle or hold it. Her servants Miss Flopson and Miss Millers the ones who handle the children and who order everyone around Every time one of her children goes near her, they fall. Even the servants trip over her. Mrs. Pocket orders naps for everyone. When Mr. Pocket arrives he looks untidy and grey-haired .

 Chapter 23: In this chapter  Mr. Pocket welcomes Pip warmly, but his wife isn’t so interested we learn that Mrs. Pocket was raised to be decorative and ornamental, which is not really means useless.Pip meets two other young men who’ll be learning at Mr. Pocket’s house  Drummle and Startop . Pip soon learns that Mr.Pockets house is run by its servants Flopson and Millers. We also learn they order Mr.Pocket around We learn Mr. Pocket is a brilliant scholar and he makes a living teaching and writing books.Pip learns from  Mrs. Coiler (the neighbour) that Mrs. Pocket donst like Mr.Pocket having to teach others for money.Pip learns that Drummle’s first name is Bentley and he most likely will become a baron one day. Then its dinner time . Mrs. Pocket wants to hold the baby, but she’s not a good mother , the baby almost slips under the table and then its head smashes on top of the table.While Mrs.Pocket talks to Drummle about her dad the knight, the baby starts to cry. Jane Pocket sneaks over to soothe the baby but Mrs. Pocket yells at her and tells her to go lie down.The baby then starts to play with a nutcracker.

I wanted them to think about what type of man the King is and the life people are living right now. We used semiotics like the wall to show the importance of things and the way things go around here . Because of certain semiotics it would’ve changed the mood to something darker . The audience might of thought that our play was dark and that the King in general was bad.