Great Expectations

Monday, March 12, 2012

Essential Question

Do you think Pip immediately fell in love with Estella? Or was Pip ever in love with her at all?

Essential Question

If you could have chosen which of Dickens endings was best, which one would you choose and why?

Essential Question

Is there a specific time when you change from childhood to adulthood, or can you become an adult based on the events that have occurred in your life?

Essential Question

Do social classes mentally restrict the characters in Great Expectations? Even today?

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Quote #3

"I give you joy of your good fortune. Well deserved, well deserved!"

Quote #2

"That boy is no common boy, and mark me, his fortun' will be no common fortun'."

Quote #1

"I work pretty hard for a sufficient living and therefore- Yes I do well!"

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Significant Quotes

"Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations."

"Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose."

“Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man’s a blacksmith, and one’s a whitesmith, and one’s a goldsmith, and one’s a coppersmith. Diwisions among such must come, and must be met as they come.”

“Dear Magwitch, I must tell you, now at last. You understand what I say?”

A gentle pressure on my hand.

“You had a child once, whom you loved and lost.”

A stronger pressure on my hand.

“She lived and found powerful friends. She is living now. She is a lady and very beautiful. And I love her!”

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Monday, March 12, 2012

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

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