In pages 1-55, we meet the main character, Pirrip. He calls himself Pip. At the beginning of the book, he is speaking about his parents’ deaths. I became curious as to how they passed away. What do you think happened to them?
We then meet Pip’s brother and sister-in-law. His sister-in-law appears to me as a rude, controlling human being. An example would be on page 8 when she kept demanding that they tell her what the matter was. If I were Pip’s brother, Joe, I wouldn’t have been pleased if she knocked my head against the wall. I haven’t taken a liking to her character yet.
In the beginning of the book, Pip met a convict and then later met another convict. I would be horrified if I were to meet two different convicts. Also, the second convict acts rudely to Pip, even after he furnished him with food. If someone were to treat me with food, I wouldn’t treat them rudely. That attitude made me lose respect for the character.
Much suspense has begun to build in this book. Pip became worried that Joe and his wife will find out about him sneaking food to the convicts. The police showed up at their house, with a pair of handcuffs in their hand. My thought on the situation was that the policemen were going to arrest Pip. Were you expecting the same thing to happen?
Towards the middle of this section, Joe starts to find some information out about the convicts. Pip feels badly about himself because Joe doesn’t know the whole truth about them. If I were Pip, I would tell him the truth. Pip keeps living on keeping in his guilty secret.
Later on, Pip travels to Ms. Havisham’s manor. Ms. Havisham orders a beautiful girl named Estella to play cards with Pip. Estella was a rude, insulting person and criticized Pip. That hurt Pip’s feelings so much that he cried when he left the manor. I definitely wouldn’t have been happy if someone was criticizing me. When Pip returns home, he lies to his brother, his sister-in-law, and Pumblechook. He told them he had a wonderful time at Ms. Havisham’s manor. I inferred that he must’ve felt bad about lying, but he felt it was necessary. He ended up feeling guilty and telling Joe that he had lied to them. I thought it was great that he admitted to Joe about lying.
