Skit Ideas

1) One scene from Great Expectations that I think would make a good skit, is the scene when Pip comes across Abel Magwitch for the very first time in the grave yard. The skit should be from when the convict first speaks to Pip, to the time he pushes Pip on the grave stone and demands that he brings food and a file to him the very next day. The skit should also include the quotes in which Magwitch tells Pip that if he does not return with the food and file, that there is another crazy man around, who will eat Pip. This was one of the only good scenes in the book.

2) Another scene that would make a good skit would be when Pip first see's Miss Havisham in her dark and isolated room. The skit should include what Miss Havisham's room look's like (the clock's timing, the worn down wedding dress, Miss Havisham - pale, etc.), and everything Miss Havisham tells Pip and has him play. This was another interesting part of the book.


3) One other scene that would make a good skit would be when Miss Havisham catches on fire in her own home. It shows bad karma. The skit should include her catching on fire, and when Pip runs up to her room and saves her. This part of the book got my attention. I think it would make a good skit because of it's meaning.

Another Question.

In chapter 40, on pages 330 and 331, Magwitch is admiring his making of Pip into a gentleman. And he says that he's going to show"them" something. He wants to show someone that Pip is a gentleman. "And blast you all!... Blast every one, from the judge in his wig to the colonist a-stir-ring up on the dust, I'll show a better gentleman than the whole kit on you together!"(331)

It seems like Magwitch is trying to prove something or make a point to someone, but who and why?

Great Expectations: Question about a passage

Chapter 30, pages 246 through 247:

The passage on these pages were about Mr. Trabb's boy's behavior towards Pip. I do not understand why he first acts terrified of Pip, and then he makes fun of Pip by saying, "Don't know ya, don't know ya, 'pon my soul, don't know ya!" I don't understand why he is making fun of Pip, and what the relationship between them is.

Question: Exactly why was Mr. Trabb's boy making fun of Pip, and what is Pip's and Trabb's boy connection in the story?

Great Expectations photo...

I chose this image to represent this week's reading because it shows the long road Pip has chosen to take to make the life he wants. Pip has left everything behind - his family, Biddy, Joe, becoming a Blacksmith, and everything else he is accustomed to, so that he can come into good fortune and learn to be a gentleman with Mr. Jaggers in London. Pip has already come a long way, and I'm sure he still has a long road ahead in order to complete his goals.