Skits... In Class

Here are some skits I would like to have done in class:

1- The scene in the begining, the first time that Pip goes to Miss Havishams house and she says that her heart is broken. Pips thouhgts are child like and interesting, i think it would be great to act it out.

2- When Jaggers first meets Pip and Joe in the bar and tell him of the great property he is going to come into, and asks joe if he wants anything out of it. This settig would be good because it is a prime foreshaddow for the plot of the book. It makes a firs impression of Jaggers and develops Joe's character as kind and loyal to Pip.

3- Another thing I would like to act out in class is where Drummle and Pip come across eachother while thay are waiting in the same place. They get into a quarrel and it all comes down to preciouse Estella. I think this would be a good addition to the other scenes to act out because it shows Drummle for who he really is and How torn Pip's heart is because of Estella.

More things that elude me.

Some thing in last weeks reading that i did not understand is when Pip is purchasing a partnership for Herbert with Wemmick in chapter 37: " "Well, you know Mr. Pip, I must tell you one thing. this is devilish good of you." " Say you'll help me to be good then," said I. "Ecod," replied Wemmick, shaking his head, " Thats not my trade." " Nor is this your trading-place," said I" ( 297)

I don't understand what they mean by 'trade' in this segment, and later in the book when the partnership is spoken of, It always nags at me in the back of my brain. I can't wrap my mind around it. What are they talking about and what does trade have to do with the partnership?

Anything will probably help, thanks and hope you didn't have the same problem.

I Don't Understand... Poor Molly

" "Master ," she again murmured. "Please!"

"Molly," said Mr. Jaggers, not looking at her, but obstinately looking at the opposite side of the room. "let them see both your wrists. Show them. Come!"

He took his hand from hers, and turned that wrist up on the table. She brought her other hand from behind her, and held the two out side by side. The last wrist was much disfigured-- deeply scarred across and across." (214)

I read this passage in the book and I wondered why in the world Molly's wrists would be gnarled up like that. It raises the questions of self harm or domestic abuse... I really didn't understand why Dickens put this in the story and ever since I read it I've been dying to find out what happened to Molly. She seems so quiet and sound, but something is going on behind that.

Any idea's anyone?

hold on Pip!

To me this picture symbolizes how as Pip goes on with his life in london after leaving home his connection with his childhood, and his old home in the marshes is unraveling and with seemingly eventually be severed. It is only barely remembered as he attempts to make a gentleman out of the blacksmith he grew up as. It also shows how even though he is leading a different life in the town that there is still a last remaining strand of the boy he was and all of the things that lead him to the point he is at.