Reading Assignment 1

When I first started reading Great Expectations, I had a general idea about Pip. The author wants the reader to feel sad because a young boy named Philip Pirrip, who likes to be called Pip, is standing in a graveyard looking at his mother and father's tombstones. In Great Expectations the word Pip, who Phillip Pirrip likes to be called, can mean so many different things. One meaning that the reader might think could be that Pip is a small boy and maybe just likes to be called that name because of that reason. Another meaning Pip could have is that its the individual rootstock of a plant that has different shrubs on it. This could mean that Pip is an individual that has many different thoughts and uses those thoughts a lot in Great Expectations. Pip lives with his sister and her husband Mr. Joe Gargery. After reading the first two chapters the reader should know that Pip is a moral character that knows good from bad. Pip's relationship with Mrs. Joe isn't that great, because she is mean to Pip, but his relationship with Mr. Joe is better, because he sticks up for Pip. The person Pip then meets in the churchyard is a convict that has an iron for his leg in which he demand Pip to fetch him a file and wittles. Then on Christmas Eve Pip had a dilemma in which he couldn't take it anymore at the dinner table and he ran outside in which he ran into the soldiers.