More Questions About Great Expectations

Another part of this book that I did not fully understand was in chapter 38 when Pip and Estella are spending a lot of time together at Mrs. Brandley's house. Pip says on page 325, "The nature of my relations with her (Estella), which placed me on terms of familiarity without placing me on terms of favour, conduced to my distraction." Since they are spending so much time together I am wondering what officially is Pip and Estella's relationship status? Are they just friends, dating, engaged, or anything of that sort?

Question!

Reading this book, there have been many parts that I don't understand fully. For example, in chaper 31, Pip says his expectations have been cancelled. My question is "What are Pip's expectations?" Are they lifelong goals set by himself, things required to become a gentlemen, or things he was told to do by another character like Mr. Jaggers, Miss Havisham, or even Joe?

Great Expectations: Photo Post

This picture represents Pip daydreaming about Estella while working as an apprentice for Joe. He loves Estella but is still ashamed for her to see him in his social class, and he feels that he isn't good enough for her. While working for Joe, Pip keeps thinking about Estella and he sees her face in the window as he works.

Great Expectations: The First Stage

In this sentence Pip is referring to his "lower class", boring life. He is ashamed of his family and home compared to Miss Havisham's house and social class. He is in a somewhat depressed state of mind ever since he visited her house for the first time. Pip wishes to be rich and have to do nothing just like Miss Havisham and her acquantences. Also, he feels that he isn't good enough for Estella even though he loves her, just because of how he was raised.

One of the most memorable days of my life that began my "chain" was back in the fall of 2004. My dad and I were driving home from my sister's soccer game and I told him that I wanted to play football. I was only about 60 pounds at the time, so it took a while for me and my dad to convince my mom to say yes. Since that day, football has taught me some of life's greatest lessons including: hard work, responsibility, and trust. Because of my size, I had to work a little harder than everyone else. That memorable day, back in 2004, was the beginning of the formation of who I am today.

Group Essay

For my paragraph I am writing about the satire and stereotypes of women throughout the book. For my first point I will talk about what men see in women, looks and pleasure (not true love.) The CD will be when Algernon says "The only wat to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else is she is plain." My next point I will talk about how women are stereotyped to fight before they become friends. For my last topic I will write what women see in men, if they smoke, money, and his social status.

The Importance of Being Earnest/Victorian Research

Before we began reading, The Importance of Being Earnest, we did research about the Victorian Era to get a better feel of what life was like back then and to relate to the characters. For example, throughout the book Algernon always says that girls are only good for pleasure and beauty. While studying this era, I found that that was how some men felt about women.

Also, I saw that women and men weren't interested or in love with eachother for the same reasons that people love eachother now. In the book the women are mostly intrested in men for their names, if they smoke, and if they have money. The men again, only like the women mostly for pleasure. Doing research on the Victorian Era before reading this novel has expanded my knowledge on peoples behavior at that time.

My New Year's Resolution

My New Year's resolution is to spend more time to study for my math tests. Each night for the homework assignments, I have just been speeding through it so I could go play with friends or play video games. I still have a B in the class, but I think I could easily bump my grade up to an A if I spend more time each night on my homework. By doing this I could get A's on the tests instead of B's all of the time.

To accomplish this goal I will set a time period that I will do math homework for each night. With this extra time, I will be able to sit down and understand the problems instead of rushing through to get the homework done. When I have fnished all of the problems, I will check over for mistakes and make sure that I am understanding everything.