Monday`s Expectations

 This week I expect to find out  more about the man who wants to take Pip with him to London, especially I want to know if he really wants only good for Pip.  I think there in London will begin the most interesting events. I am interested also if Pip will meet Estella  more or will he forget her.
Well, I continue to read and I will share my realizations with you on Sunday.
Good luck to everybody! Have a nice week and full of success!!!)

Hello my dear friends. How are you? Hope your weekend was wonderful)

And what about your reading? As to me I read some more chapters. Things are getting more interesting. There are great changes in Pip`s
mind. He finishes his education with Mr Wopsle`s aunt as he gets too old. And he realizes that he doesn’t want to be Joe`s apprentice.  There are also many changes in his life and in life of his relatives. Their home is attacked by an unknown, and his sister is a victim. After this she can`t speak, her vision, hearing and memory are affected too. Biddy takes care of her.
In his four year as an apprentice he meets a man, who he once saw at Miss Havisham. This man identifies himself as Jaggers, a lawyer in London. He tells Joe that he is to take Pip from him so that he can have a better life.
I think this man can help him. But it is strange- why he wants to help him. I will read further and  will  understand, I think.

Sunday`s Realizations

Pip visites Ms.`s Havisham house.  He is surprised because it  seems  as though this house and everything in it stuck  in the past. Even all the  clocks are stopped on twenty to nine. Ms. Havisham is dressed in a wedding gown, which looks very old. It looks like she dressed it up  long  time ago, and since then has never put it off. She tells  Pip that she has a strange wish- to see him playing. There Pip also meets a girl, named Estella, who is the same age as him, but she considers herself more superior than others and, therefore, looks elder. She is a pretty girl, but proud as well. It makes Pip to feel embarrassed.
When Pip comes back home his sister questioned him about his visit to Ms.Havisham`s house. She thinks that Ms.Havisham can help him in the future. Pip doesn`t tell his sister the truth what happens in that house, because he doesn`t believe that  his sister will accept such answers. He is afraid  that she will not understand him and will punish him. But Pip tells the truth to Joe. He can`t lie to him. He tells  him about Estella, that she considers him very common. Joe says that it is not good to tell lies and it doesn’t matter are you a common boy or a king, because everyone has a common start before they make something of themselves.
This conversation with Joe and this day became memorable for Pip. It changed Pip`s  thoughts and he decides to make changes in his life.|
I think here starts a new period in Pip`s life. It is very interesting what will happen next.

Expectations!

Hello dear teacher and dear fellows! I`m sorry I`m late with my expectations. But it is better late, than never))
A new week of reading started. It is getting more interesting. I am curious that will happen  with Pip next.
I worry about him, because he lives a very hard life for his age, a life not for a child.  Every time I begin to read, I expect that he will find someone who will love , except his brother- in- law .

Good luck to everybody and have a nice evening!

Realizations

This week I read that nobody find out about Pip`s theft of the pie from his mean sister`s kitchen.  At the beginning he wanted to tell his brother-in- law that he took it, but  , he didn`t. He was afraid that if he tells it to him, he will lose his only friend and his support. He thought that Joe will be disappointed with him. Joe`s attitude was too valuable for Pip.

Pip started learning to read at Mr. Wopsle`s aunt evening school.  Mr. Wople`s aunt had a granddaughter Biddy, who was also an orphan and was brought up by hand like Pip. She helped him to learn to read. 

One night Pip discovered that Joe can`t read. Joe told him that he didn`t learn anything, because he had difficult childhood. Pip wanted to teach Joe. And he also decided that he wants to become a scholar. But he didn`t want his sister find out about this because she was not fond of scholars. They even decided that Pip should teach Joe in secret from his sister.  They both were afraid of her,
Later  Mrs. Joe returned home , She was helping Uncle Pumblechook with his shopping. She teld them that Miss Havisham wants Pip to come and play at her home. She  heard about Pip through Uncle Pumblechook.  He took Pip to Miss Havisham’s home the next day.
She gave Pip a good washing and put him in stiff clothes. She turned him over to Uncle Pumblechook, who took him to his home.
Pip could not understand what for was he supposed to go to Miss Havisham`s home.

Sunday`s Realizations. Week 2.

One more week passed. I want to share with my thoughts about the reading.  I found more about Pip`s life in his family. And I am sorry for him, because the life he lives is not happy at all. He is like an outcast in his own family. It seems that his sister doesn`t love Pip, even a little. While reading I haven`t noticed that she says something gentle to him . In Christmas morning instead of wishing him Merry Christmas her first words were ("And where the deuce ha' you been?").  
At that Christmas day some guests came to them. Each of them said to Pip that he is unthankful, and that he doesn`t appreciate that his sister does for him, and that there is nothing good in this boy. His sister didn`t stop them , didn`t defend him.  What`s more she agreed with them and confirmed that he is a burden to her. ("He was a world of trouble to you, ma'am," said Mrs. Hubble, commiserating my sister.

"Trouble?" echoed my sister; "trouble?" and then entered on a fearful catalogue of all the illnesses I had been guilty of, and all the acts of sleeplessness I had committed, and all the high places I had tumbled from, and all the low places I had tumbled into, and all the injuries I had done myself, and all the times she had wished me in my grave, and I had contumaciously refused to go there.) 

Only Joe, her husband , was kind to Pip and supported him during the whole dinner. 
I am shocked with Pip`s sister behaviour. How could she agree with people who tell a lot of bad things about her brother? It is awful to have a sister like she.   

Realizations and New Expectations.

I read some chapters of the book. To be honestly, it didn`t bring me so much pleasure I expected. That is because there are a lot of difficult words, which I even couldn`t find in the dictionary. But , in spite of this, I understood the contents of these chapters. And at first I found out who are the characters.

The main character is a boy Philip Pirrip, who names himself Pip. He is an orphan. He never saw his parents. He can only imagine how were they, looking at their tombstones:.(The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above," I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly. )

Pip lives with his elder sister and her husband. She is not a good-looking woman. She is very strict  with her brother , and by the way, with her husband as well. The latter is a like a friend for Philip. He differs much from his wife. Even Pip says that he doesn`t understand how could he marry his sister :(She was not a good-looking woman, my sister; and I had a general impression that she must have made Joe Gargery marry her by hand).

There appears one more character, already in the 1st chapter. This is a strange man whom Pip meets once in the graveyard. He is very fearful, with the iron on his leg. He looked like a wild man. Probably he is the criminal, who escaped .

So far this is all.  Next I expect to find out  more about the characters. Then I think that  soon there will  begin many actions,  adventures. I haven`t read enough to understand  what is this story about. Therefore this week I hope the reading will be more successfull!)