To start off the section, Pip is spending much time with Estella in London. We came to find out that Miss Havisham encourages Estella to break men’s’ hearts. It always seemed as though Miss Havisham wanted Estella and Pip to get married but now she wants Estella to break his heart. This seemed strange to me, but after I thought about it for awhile I came to conclusion that Miss Havisham thinks no men are good just because of what happened to her. I think it’s rude that she is trying to ruin Pip and Estella’s love because she didn’t have the best fairytale ending with her love life. Pip starts to feel unimportant to Estella and I think it is because she occasionally still treats him rudely and does not always take him seriously.
As we continued to read, Pip hears footsteps in his apartment in the middle of the night. I became curious as to who this would be. My guess was that it was a convict, and that turned out to be right. We found out that the convict was the one who turned Pip into a gentleman. It wasn’t Miss Havisham, and that means that he wasn’t meant to marry Estella. I did not think Miss Havisham was the one to turn him into a gentleman, but I had no idea that it was the convict. This was a shock to me. The convict came to him because he was on the run and if he was caught he could be killed, so Pip gave him some food and let him stay with him at his apartment. I thought that was quite generous of Pip.
Much of the story comes together in chapter 42 when the convict, whose name is Magwitch, tells Pip and Herbert a story about his life. He told them that he met a gentleman criminal named Compeyson. Herbert and Pip put the puzzle pieces together and realize that Compeyson was the man that left Miss Havisham on their wedding day. I never would have expected this either. Dickens does an excellent job creating twists and turns in the book that the reader would not expect.
Later, Pip decides that he should leave Estella forever. He travels to the Satis house to make one last visit to Miss Havisham and Estella. Pip told Estella he loved her, but that did not matter because Estella confessed that she is going to marry Drummie. Very upset about this, Pip walked the whole way back to London. On his way back, he received a note from Wemmick that told him not to go home. This made me curious and I wondered what was happening that Pip could not return home. At the end of this reading, we find out from Wemmick that Compeyson is out looking for Magwitch so Pip should stay away from home.
This ends our reading and leaves me in curiosity as to what will happen between Compeyson and Magwitch.
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