Great Expectations Chapters 7-25
Great Expectations (Chapters 7-25)
Chapter 7
1. Dickens is noted for giving his characters names that are descriptive to their personalities. The names often sound like other words or are a pun. How could Mrs. Wopsle’s name be descriptive of her personality?
Mrs. Wopsles name describes her personality because “Wopsle” sounds like “wobble” and Mrs. Wopsle is has a very wobbly and carefree personality.
2. How are Biddy and Pip alike?
Biddy and Pip are alike because they were both “brought up by hand”. Also, they are both from the same social class and have dreams of a better life.
3. Why has Joe not learned to read as a child? What makes him marry Pip’s sister?
Joe has not learned to read as a child because he did not attend school. His father would hammer at him and his mother and they would run away. His mother would put him in school, but unfortunately his father would find them, bring them back home, and hammer away all over again. He married Pip’s sister because he was living alone and she was a “fine figure of a woman”.
4. What reasons does Joe give Pip for not standing up to his wife?
Joe tells Pip he doesn’t stand up to his wife because she is a master-mind.
5. Who is Miss Havisham? Why is Mrs, Joe delighted to send Pip to her house to play?
Miss Havisham is an immensely rich and grim lady who lives in a large and dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who led a life of seclusion. Mrs. Joe is very delighted to send Pip to her house because Pip’s future may be made by his going to her house. Also, a fortune may come out of it.
6. Dickens often uses a description of a natural scene as a means of explaining the motivations or feelings of a character. How does the following description of the sky help the reader understand Pip’s feelings about going to Miss Havisham’s house to play?
“…I could first see no stars from the chaise-cart. But they twinkled out one-by-one , without throwing any light on the question why on Earth I was going to play
Chapter 7
1. Dickens is noted for giving his characters names that are descriptive to their personalities. The names often sound like other words or are a pun. How could Mrs. Wopsle’s name be descriptive of her personality?
Mrs. Wopsles name describes her personality because “Wopsle” sounds like “wobble” and Mrs. Wopsle is has a very wobbly and carefree personality.
2. How are Biddy and Pip alike?
Biddy and Pip are alike because they were both “brought up by hand”. Also, they are both from the same social class and have dreams of a better life.
3. Why has Joe not learned to read as a child? What makes him marry Pip’s sister?
Joe has not learned to read as a child because he did not attend school. His father would hammer at him and his mother and they would run away. His mother would put him in school, but unfortunately his father would find them, bring them back home, and hammer away all over again. He married Pip’s sister because he was living alone and she was a “fine figure of a woman”.
4. What reasons does Joe give Pip for not standing up to his wife?
Joe tells Pip he doesn’t stand up to his wife because she is a master-mind.
5. Who is Miss Havisham? Why is Mrs, Joe delighted to send Pip to her house to play?
Miss Havisham is an immensely rich and grim lady who lives in a large and dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who led a life of seclusion. Mrs. Joe is very delighted to send Pip to her house because Pip’s future may be made by his going to her house. Also, a fortune may come out of it.
6. Dickens often uses a description of a natural scene as a means of explaining the motivations or feelings of a character. How does the following description of the sky help the reader understand Pip’s feelings about going to Miss Havisham’s house to play?
“…I could first see no stars from the chaise-cart. But they twinkled out one-by-one , without throwing any light on the question why on Earth I was going to play