Great Expectations Photo Post

I chose this photo because it shows how not only Pip but all the other characters changed throughout the novel and that change isn't always good. Pip left Joe behind to change into a gentleman and who is used to be is completely different from the young innocent boy he used to be.

Making Connections and Posting a picture!!!

I can't really relate this book to anything else that I have read because I don't read stuff like this. The only book that I can kind of relate it to is To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee because they're both about someone's childhood and growing up. In Great Expectations Pip is the boy growing up, and so is Scout from To Kill A Mockingbird.  But they're also very different books because while pip is brought up "by hand", Scout has more caring family members so they two characters are quit different.
    I think that both authors books have a complete different writing style, Dickens is confusing but Lee's is pretty simple to understand. While TKAM is based on a nice girl growing up with racism problems unlike GE where it's about class problems and what is was like being raised way back then.
    Both of these books do have a message about life. I think both messages kind of relate to how people act and what they believe is right and wrong. In G.E the people thought that it was right to be in the non working class and wrong to work for a living and be poor. In TKAM they thought it was wrong to be anything other than American or to help/stand up for anyone that is not American. I think that both books give off a really good example of human nature.

Great Expectations, The second stage

    An important event that has happened during the second stage so far is Pip's arrival to London. When he first gets there I think that he was kind of interested and intimidated by this huge place because he is a country boy. Mr. Jagger introduces Pip to his clerk Mr. Wemmik, and he soon realizes that he was the pale young gentleman he fought in the garden at Satis house. I think that Pip didn't know becoming a gentleman was going to be like this. I think this shows that Dickens views on the upper class leads to life that isn't enjoyed.
     This relates as an important motif of ambition and social improvement because Pips whole goal is to become a gentleman and move up in class but I think the outcome will not be what he expected at all. But hopefully I will find out soon.

About the last sentence in chapter nine reads...

       Pip is referring to his day at Mrs. Havisham's house because he is just starting to begin to realize that he doesn't want to be common any more. This day has altered him because it is going to open up alot of doors in the future pip. Pip starts to change even more after this chapter. He begins to grow up even more which leads to him wanting to be a gentleman and not be in the working class and his views on life change a lot. I think they are positive in some ways being he won't be poor anymore and won't have to work later on but also negative because he will be leaving Joe.
       My chain began when I was little and I think it began when I started to grow up and realize how much my mom has gone through with me n my two older brothers on her own and that I want to be able to repay her someday by being successful and doing something good with my life. I don't remember a specific day where I was like "I need to do this." It just kind of grew on me as I was growing up, watching and realizing our struggles and I knew I wanted better for my mom and brothers. So by now me being older and able to steer my life, I'm steering towards the direction that will have an outcome of being able to give back to my mom. That truly is one thing that I know I will work for till it is done.