Saturday, April 3, 2010

Pip's dreams are going to come true!

Years pass as Pip being Joe's apprentice until one day, he goes to the Pip and sees Mr. Wopsle reading about a murder trial. A large lawyer dressed in dark clothes starts to question Wopsle about the details of the trial and Pip soon recongnizes him from the Satis House. Pip walks home with the lawyer, named Jaggers, who informs Pip that he will receive a large some of money from an unknown benefactor, and he will move to London to start learning how to be a gentleman, as long as Joe is ok with it. Joe lets Pip go and is happy that Pip is finally getting what he wanted. This decision by Joe truly shows how much love he has for Pip; that even though he wants to live with Pip and make Pip a blacksmith, Pip wants to become a gentleman to become of a higher social class, so he lets Pip despite his own desires. Pip suspects that his benefactor is Miss Havisham, because he had seen Jaggers before at his house and he thinks that her reason is to set him and Estella up. Preparing to leave for London, he feels sorry for leaving Joe and Biddy, because once Mrs. Joe died, they were his family and his entire life surrounded them. He is both excited and sorrowful; excited because he finally has the opportunity to be a gentleman and impress Estella, but sorrowful because he is abandoning everything that he had known all his life and the only two people that loved him. He promises to still be close with Joe and Biddy and not forget about them, but once he gets to London, his relationship with them will only go south.

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