Great Expectations Photo Post



For my picture I choose a chaise-cart. (above)

 In Great Expectations  Pip almost lives a double life...well kind of. He has his poor,town house with his thick boots and his rich, respect, gentleman city home. He likes to keep the separate which is my reason for choosing the chaise cart for my picture post. The cart is the transportation between his two lives it provides that separation that he likes. As his life goes on that separation grows and grows. Eventually after his sister died he feels that there is no reason since he has no family left what is the point of going there. So now he only has one life, in London with Herbert, Mr. Jaggers and Wemmick. Even though that separation don't exists anymore physically I still think it exists emotionally.

Making Connections

       I think  Great Expectations and the book The Joy Luck Club are similar. In TJLC four Chinese woman move to San Francisco to make better lives for themselves. The didn't speak English or have any money but they knew that it would be a better life for their children. Through out the book the children grow but don't realize that their mothers left there family and friends so that they can have a better life, in where they can make and reach their dreams.

       This is similar to GE because Pip has dreamed of becoming a gentle man and Joe knew it. Although he wanted Pip to stay and apprentice him, he knew that Pip would never be happy there. So Joe let Pip go to London and tackle his dreams. Joe put aside his happiness for Pips. When Pip left for London he was still young and didn't realize what Joe had done for him. 

       Joe and the four Mothers are obviously alike, both are parents. They care for their children, both put the children first which nobody can argue with but its how both the children and Pip acted. In TJLC the children realize what their mothers did for them, leaving their friends and family behind. But the question is, will Pip realize what Joe did for him?

Expectations the Second Stage

Throughout the second stage Pip's character grows into a gentleman in the progress when he moves to London and becomes under the eye of Mr. Jagger. In the first stage Pip is just a young innocent boy who was just dreaming of being a blacksmith like Joe. But then he gets great expectations from a mysterious person. Who has voluntarily plaid for his education on being a true gentleman and so Pip now lives between Mr. Pockets house and Herbert Pockets house in the city. He is being brought up as he always wished he could, in the higher class.

Common motifs in the second stage are mystery such as who is the person who has voluntarily paid for Pip's new schooling. Another is becoming of a gentleman like Biddy who in the first stage was often schooling with Pip or helping get Mrs. Joe healthier. The common theme throughout this book is contrasts for example when Pip compared the personalities of Mrs. and Mr. Joe. Most themes and motifs happen through out the book but there is just one goal for Pip which is just becoming that gentleman he has dreamed of being.

Analyzing the Quote

       Pip has just realized that he has more to offer life than just an common blacksmith. In the first nine chapters he is so excited to apprentice Joe. But after meeting Estella and Miss Havishams he knows that a blacksmith is not the career choice for him. He wants to be more uncommon to impress Estella. In the chapters ten through sixteen Pip grows up and becomes a gentleman. That day changed his life because he when from boy wanting to apprentice a blacksmith to a young man want to be a gentleman.

       A day that changed my life was when my friend Sierra moved away in 3rd grade. I had only know her for two years but we were bffs. She was the first of 3 of my friends to move away in 6 years each two years apart.  It was really hard because every time I made a new friends she was moving away. But i learned that things are going to happened around you and no matter what you just have to learn to go with it and things will go on.