Liz LeBeau 

“Now you see, Joseph and wife,” said Mr. Pumblechook, as he took me by the arm above the elbow, “I am one of them that always go right through with what they’ve begun. This boy must be bound out of hand. That’s my way. Bound out of hand.” 

-Trevor

Pip is questioning who he is and what he wants to be in life -Lilly

 This quote is not only demonstrating the way both Estella and Miss. Havisham feel towards Pip but it is also showing the relationship that pip has with both of these two women that he apparently cares about their opinions as a result of how much time they are spending together. Showing how their opinions could effect him later on throughout the book.

-Emily H

 

When Pip tries to get Joe to have a real conversation with Miss Havisham, we see how his world has been divided. He used to be so admiring of Joe, and now he feels like he needs to teach him manners and the proper way to behave. This shows how Miss Havisham and the manor has influenced Pip’s outlook. Pip feels embarrassed of his former “common” life. His attempt at making Joe speak directly to Miss Havisham displays his desire to be less common and become more like a gentleman.
-Ellie Shuert

-Ewan Mathie

This quote shows Joe is surprised at Pip’s ability to please Miss Havisham, considering she is seen as a more powerful women because she is in a higher class than Joe. He is astonished that Pip is able to do this and is happy for him. This makes this quote significant because you see Pip and Joe’s relationship growning. -Luke

“Am I to come again, Miss Havisham?” I asked.

“No. Gargery is your master now. Gargery! One word!”  
When Miss Havisham tells Pip that he is not going to come after today and that Gargery is now his master it’s her way of telling Pip that it’s time for him to move on from his work here to something he wants to do like becoming Joe’s apprentice.
-Khateeb raza

But, he was on his feet directly, and after sponging himself with a great show of dexterity, began squaring again. The second greatest surprise I have ever had in my life was seeing him on his back again, looking up at me out of a black eye.

His spirit inspired me with great respect. He seemed to have no strength, and he never once hit me hard, and he was always knocked down; but, he would be up again in a moment sponging himself or drinking out of the water bottle, with the greatest satisfaction in seconding himself according to form, and then came at me with an air and a show that made me believe he really was going to do for me at last. He got heavily bruised, for[…]”

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Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

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“My heart failed me when I saw him squaring at me with every demonstration of mechanical nicety, and eyeing my anatomy as if he were minutely choosing his bone. I never have been so surprised in my life as I was when I let out the first blow, and saw him lying on his back, looking up at me with a bloody nose and his face exceedingly foreshortened.

But, he was on his feet directly, and after sponging himself with a great show of dexterity, began squaring again. The second greatest surprise I have ever had in my life was seeing him on his back again, looking up at me out of a black eye.

His spirit inspired me with great respect. He seemed to have no strength, and he never once hit me hard, and he was always knocked down; but, he would be up again in a moment sponging himself or drinking out of the water bottle, with the greatest satisfaction in seconding himself according to form, and then came at me with an air and a show that made me believe he really was going to do for me at last. He got heavily bruised, for[…]”

Excerpt From

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

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This material may be protected by copyright.“My heart failed me when I saw him squaring at me with every demonstration of mechanical nicety, and eyeing my anatomy as if he were minutely choosing his bone. I never have been so surprised in my life as I was when I let out the first blow, and saw him lying on his back, looking up at me with a bloody nose and his face exceedingly foreshortened.

But, he was on his feet directly, and after sponging himself with a great show of dexterity, began squaring again. The second greatest surprise I have ever had in my life was seeing him on his back again, looking up at me out of a black eye.

His spirit inspired me with great respect. He seemed to have no strength, and he never once hit me hard, and he was always knocked down; but, he would be up again in a moment sponging himself or drinking out of the water bottle, with the greatest satisfaction in seconding himself according to form, and then came at me with an air and a show that made me believe he really was going to do for me at last. He got heavily bruised, for[…]”

Excerpt From

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/great-expectations/id421486981?mt=11

This material may be protected by copyright.

 

“I could hardly have imagined dear old Joe looking so unlike himself or so like some extraordinary bird, standing, as he did, speechless, with his tuft of feathers ruffled, and his mouth open as if he wanted a worm.” (274) 

Pip exclaims that Joe’s actions when Ms. Havisham speaks to him are abnormal. He uses phrases such as “extraordinary bird,” “speechless,” “with his tuft of feathers ruffled.” Giving off the idea that he was nervous or didn’t know how to act, just as a bird would if they had seen a predator. This goes deeper into the idea that Joe was intimidated and possibly uncertain on how to feel about Ms. Havisham, she was described as an unsettling, and uneasy person to look at. Therefor this quote is showing Joe in vulnerable state of uncertainty of his feelings. Which I find important to the book, because Joe seems to always be easy going and childish and this quote shows that he can tense up and have the same feelings as others. 

-Isabella Ciccone 

“It was quite in vain for me to endeavour to make him sensible that he ought to speak to Miss Havisham. The more I made faces and gestures to him to do it, the more confidential, argumentative, and polite he persisted in being to me"(119).  Pip has already started knowing that he is lesser then them and that the "wealthy" treat the commoners differently, but this is the first time that Pip has been embarrassed of joe and the way he acts, he doesn't understand why joe can't talk to Mrs havisham because maybe joe feels like he's much lesser then mrs havisham and doesn't deserve or know how to talk to her. This most likely greatly affects pip because Pips been staying and getting to know these crazy people for long periods of time now and here's this man he looks up to not being able to carry a conversation. It's really the first time that pip is ashamed of joe.  -maddie 

“It was ten o’clock at night before we ventured to creep in again, and then she asked Joe why he had not married a Negress slave at once? Joe offered no answer, poor fellow, but stood feeling his whiskers and looking dejectedly at me, as if he thought it really might have been a better speculation.”(pg234) Mrs. Joe is being extremely insecure and is putting her negative emotions onto those she cares about. But while doing so she pushes them away and makes them want to leave her even more. This is extremely important because it outlines how extremely fragile the relationship is between Mr. Joe, Mrs. Joe, and pip. And with Joe contemplating if he should leave, it might lead to him actually going on his own. And that would completely change the dynamic of the plot with pip having to now deal with a divorce and the new relationships he would have to form and adjust to.

-Emmanuel Thompson