The years pass and Pip has not much going on in his life now. He continues to try and pursue Estella, but it seems as if he is getting less and less important to her now, and he still has not visited Joe and Biddy as often as he would like to. His closest friend is still Herbert Pocket and now that Pip has become of age, he has decided to help Herbert out and get him into the merchant business. Pip has just recently received a huge sum of money because he has turned twenty-one years old and uses it for that because Herbert has helped Pip ever since Pip had arrived in London, teaching him to be gentleman and also living together. One dark, stormy night, an old man enters Pip's house and greets him, it is Pip's convict, from all the way at the beginning of the novel. He introduces himself as Abel Magwitch, and at first Pip does not understand what he is doing there. But, slowly, Magwitch reveals himself and makes known to Pip that it was he all along, and not Miss Havisham that was the secret benefactor. He had made all the money in Australia, where he was exiled and had sent it to Pip to become a gentleman because of the kindess Pip had shown him as a young boy. Magwitch also tells Pip that he is not supposed to be in London and that if he is caught, he will be hung and all of his fortune will be lost. Pip is completely in a state of shock as he was almost sure that Miss Havisham was his benefactor and he was meant to marry Estella. Now, he figures out that this was not so and that he was chasing a dream all this time. In addition, he also feels repulsed that it was the convict's money and he does not want it anym0re because he thinks that it has been tainted in some way. Meanwhile, Magwitch thinks that Pip will be very happy about this news. Although he says that he did it because of how Pip treated him, he actually most likely made Pip a gentleman because he wants a future, and he knows that he has no future himself, so he had to make something good out of the closest person to him, who happened to be Pip.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
It's the Convict, not Havisham
The years pass and Pip has not much going on in his life now. He continues to try and pursue Estella, but it seems as if he is getting less and less important to her now, and he still has not visited Joe and Biddy as often as he would like to. His closest friend is still Herbert Pocket and now that Pip has become of age, he has decided to help Herbert out and get him into the merchant business. Pip has just recently received a huge sum of money because he has turned twenty-one years old and uses it for that because Herbert has helped Pip ever since Pip had arrived in London, teaching him to be gentleman and also living together. One dark, stormy night, an old man enters Pip's house and greets him, it is Pip's convict, from all the way at the beginning of the novel. He introduces himself as Abel Magwitch, and at first Pip does not understand what he is doing there. But, slowly, Magwitch reveals himself and makes known to Pip that it was he all along, and not Miss Havisham that was the secret benefactor. He had made all the money in Australia, where he was exiled and had sent it to Pip to become a gentleman because of the kindess Pip had shown him as a young boy. Magwitch also tells Pip that he is not supposed to be in London and that if he is caught, he will be hung and all of his fortune will be lost. Pip is completely in a state of shock as he was almost sure that Miss Havisham was his benefactor and he was meant to marry Estella. Now, he figures out that this was not so and that he was chasing a dream all this time. In addition, he also feels repulsed that it was the convict's money and he does not want it anym0re because he thinks that it has been tainted in some way. Meanwhile, Magwitch thinks that Pip will be very happy about this news. Although he says that he did it because of how Pip treated him, he actually most likely made Pip a gentleman because he wants a future, and he knows that he has no future himself, so he had to make something good out of the closest person to him, who happened to be Pip.
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