Pip, an orphan being brought up
by his sister, goes to the
graveyard to visit his parents
and sibling tombstones.
Suddenly, convict with manacles
on his leg frightens Pip. The
convict questions Pip and
demands Pip to bring him a file
and food.
"fancies"
"bleak"
"marsh country"
"sir"
"powerfully"
"dark flat wilderness"
"I never saw my father or my mother"
"frightened"
"small bundle of shivers"
Chapters 2 & 3
Pip runs home and is informed by Joe
that Mrs. Joe is looking for him. Mrs. Joe
returns demanding where Pip has been.
During dinner, Pip hides his food to give
the convict. Pip wakes up at sunrise and
takes the convict some food and drink
and a file. On his way to the Battery Pip
sees a convict sleeping, he taps on the
convicts shoulder. The convict runs into
the mist. Pip proceeds to the Battery and
gives the first convict the food and the
file. He asks the convict if he is not going
to share with his companion. The convict
asks Pip the direction to which the
second convict had gone. Pip hurries
back home.
"by hand"
"redness of skin"
"fair man"
"jammed"
"terror"
Chapters 4 & 5
Mrs. Joe is busily cleaning, getting ready for the
holiday dinner while Joe and Pip try to stay out of
her way. Its Christmas Day, Pip and Joe go to
church where Pip feels like confessing, but
doesn't. After church the guests arrive, and Pip is
constantly worried that the theft will be
discovered. During the dinner, Pip is compared
to a swine and reminded how grateful he should
be to his sister for his upbringing. Finally, Mrs.Joe
offers for some pork pie, and Pip has to grab on
to the table leg to stop trembling. Terrified, he
runs for the door, but smashes into a party of
soldiers. Pip assumes the soldiers are here to
arrest him, but actually they were here for the
blacksmith to fix the handcuffs. After the
handcuffs are repaired Mr. Wopsle, Joe and Pip
go with soldiers to find the two missing convicts.
Hearing shouts, the soldiers ran towards it to
find two convicts fighting in a ditch. Once the
convicts are stopped and are soon taken to the
Hulks.
Chapters 6 & 7
One year later. Pip attends Mr. Wopsle's
great-aunts evening school, it is Biddy
(Pip classmate) that teaches him and
other children how to read and write. Joe
and Pip sit by the hearth and Pip writes
Joe a letter. Joe is impressed with Pips
letter and praises him. Pip finds out why
Joe is really with Mrs Joe and about his
childhood. Also the reason why he took
the responsibility of Pip, which makes Pip
cry. When Pip and Joe return home they
are told that Miss Havisham is looking for
a boy to come and play. So Mrs. Joe
cleans Pip and sends him off with Mr.
Pumblchook in his best attair, and is told
he will be going to Miss Havishams the
next morning.
Chapters 8 &9
After breakfast the next morning, Mr. Pumblechook
sternly questions Pip on multiplication problems. He is
taken to Satis house, where a girl appears to open the
gate. She is rude to Mr. Pumblechook and sends him
away. Pip is lead to a door where is offers Estella to go
in, but sherefuses and walks away. Pip opens the door
to a skeletal old woman, wearing a yellowing wedding
dress, surrounded by clocks stopped at twenty minutes
to nine. Miss Havisham orders Pip to play cards with
Estella. Estella insults Pips social class and his
unrefined manners. He is told to come back. Pip cries
as he leaves Satis House. When he returns home, he
lies to Joe, Mrs. Joe and Pumblechook about the Satis
House being a nice place. He feels guilty for telling Joe a
lie so he tell him the truth. Joe advises Pip to take the
honest road from now on. But that night he wonders
how Estella pictured him and how he wants her to like
him.
Chapters 10 & 11
Pip continues to suffer through his
schooling, but has a new desire to improve
his learning so he gets Biddy to give him
extra lessons. Later that day when Pip goes
to pub to bring Joe home, he notices the
strange man sitting with Joe and Mr. Wopsle
was stirring with the file Pip had stolen to
give the convict. The stranger gives Pip two
pounds, which Pip later gives to Mrs. Joe. He
constantly worries that his aid to the convict
will be discovered. Pip is taken back to Miss
Havisham's, where he is paraded in front of
insincere relatives visiting for Miss
Havisham's birthday. He again plays cards
with Estella, then goes to the garden, where
he is challenged to fight a pale young boy.
Pip wins the fight, which earns him the
permission to kiss Estella on the cheek. He
returns home ashamed that Estella looks
down on him.
Chapters 12 &13
The incident from the previous night goes unmentioned
during the next visit. He continues to go to Miss
Havishams regularly for the next several months,
helping Miss Havisham, hoping that she will raise him
from his low social class. Pip is so wrapped up in his
hopes that he doesn't notice that Miss Havisham
encourages Estella to break Pips heart. Pip gradually
grows apart from his family, confiding with Biddy
instead of Joe and feels ashamed that Joe is so
'common'. One day Miss Havisham offers to help with
the papers that would officially make Pip Joe's
apprentice, and Pip is devastated to find out that she
never meant to make Pip a gentleman. Joe visits Satis
House with Pip to complete Pips apprenticeship papers.
With his rough speech and crude appearance, Joe seems
horridly out of place in the mansion. Estella laughs at
him and at Pip. Miss Havisham gives Pip a gift of
twenty-five pounds. Pip is angry and disappointed how
his life turned out.
Chapters 14 & 15
Time passes as Pip begins working in Joe's forge;
the boy slowly becomes adolescent. He hates
working as Joe's apprentice, but out of
consideration for Joe's goodness, he keeps his
feelings to himself. As he works, he thinks of
Estella's face mocking him in the forge, and he
longs for Satis House. Pip still tries to improve and
expand his knowledge, and on Sundays he also
tries to teach Joe to read. One Sunday, Pip
persuades Joe that he needs to meet Miss
Havisham, but Joe advises him to stay away. Dolge
Orlick (Joe's forge worker) makes Pips less
pleasant. Orlick would frighten Pip when he was
younger with stories about devils.One day Mrs. Joe
complains about Orlick taking a holiday and both
of them start shouting. Joe defeats Orlick in a fight,
Mrs. Joe faints in excitement. Pip visits Miss
Havisham and learns that Estella has been sent
abroad.He then spends time with Mr. Wopsle and
Pumblechook that evening reading a play.
When he arrives home, he learns that Mrs. Joe has
been attacked hard on the head.
Chapters 16 & 17
Pip's old guilt resurfaces when he learns
that convicts with leg irons are suspected
to attack his sister.The detectives that
come from London are useless and only
say what already has been said. Mrs. Joe
who now not able to speak, begins to draw
the letter 'T' on her slate over and over,
which PIp realises represents a hammer.
From this, Biddy collects that she is
referring to Orlick. Orlick is called in to see
Mrs. Joe, and Pip expects her to accuse
him of her attacker. Instead, she seems
eager to please Orlick and often calls him
by drawing a 'T' on her slate. Biddy moves
in to help nurse Mrs. Joe. Pip visits Satis
House again and notices how bleak it is
without Estella. He walks with Biddy, he
tells her his secret love for Estella. When
Biddy advises him to stay away from
Estella, Pip gets angry with her, but he still
becomes jealous when Orlick begins trying
to flirt with her.