Magwitch Chapter 1

Johnny took action by stabbing the soc and killing him. So johnny and ponyboy started panicking and they went to visit dally. Dally gave them a safehouse money and a gun to keep them safe. The boys migrate to that safe house and stayed there untill dally

Johnny and Ponyboy ran into to save the children from the fire. Ponyboy got some minor burns but Johnny was messed up real bad. Pony wakes up and he is in an ambulance. Once he gets back to town Sodapop and Darry visit him in the hospital. The next day Pony sees that Dally is okay but Johnny might not make it.

Pip's fairy tale like view on the upper class is shattered when Magwitch, a convict, declares that he's Pip'd benefactor. Pip can't believe that a low-class criminal had wealth rivaling that of a wealthy gentleman's. It's a wake up call for Pip. (page 294) Magwitch's death also brings out Pip's softer, more sentimental side as Pip learns to love a person for who they are now and not what their standing or past was. (page 428) Pip sells all his belongings to pay for his debts and starts anew as a humble clerk at Clarriker and Herbert's company.

Pip goes back to the Ward house to confirm if her theory was correct but exposes that Elliot Ward was the person making the notes (263). Pip tracks Mr. Ward using her phone to the house where the Ward family used to live. Pip knocks on the door and demands that Elliot uncover the truth about Sal’s death. Pip uncovers from Mr. Ward that he was the secret man Andie was seeing and they were having a sexual relationship. When Ward tried to end the relationship, Andie started to threaten him with exposure if he did not comply (284).

The money and the status have caused Pip to become insensitive and very apprehensive about what other people thought of him. In rational mind, Joe decides to leave London and return home. Future Joe returns to London to care for Pip when he learns that he is ill, despite Pip’s wrong treatment of him. Dickens pens, “For, the tenderness of Joe was so beautifully proportioned to my need, that I was like a child in his hands. He would sit and talk to me in the old confidence, and with the old simplicity, and in the old unassertive protecting way, so that I would half believe that all my life since the old kitchen was one of the mental troubles of the fever that was gone” (Dickens 466).

At the park, a group of Socs tried to drown Ponyboy. Johnny was infuriated and killed one of the Socs named Bob. The boys realized what they had done and decided to run away. They asked Dally to help them and he gave them some money and a gun. Pony and Johnny took a train to the countryside to hide in an abandoned church.

Joe Gargery exemplifies the theme of the power of friendship in this book. When Pip prepares to go to London, he gives Joe a very mean and snobby attitude. He even lets on that Joe and his background cause him embarrassment, “I have been thinking, Joe, that when I go downtown on Monday, and order my new clothes, I shall tell the tailor that I 'll come and put them on there, or that I 'll have them sent to Mr. Pumblechook 's. It would be very disagreeable to be stared at by all the people here,” (page 126). Throughout Pip leaving on a sour note, Joe always remains around for Pip. Joe even meets Pip in London and tells Pip that he cares about him and understands the social divide and changes that have taken place, “Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man’s a blacksmith, and one’s a whitesmith, and one’s a goldsmith, and one’s a coppersmith.

First, Magwitch is a convict, but still does good things for Pip. Next, Mrs. Joe tells Joe to forgive Pip, even though she dislikes Pip. Third, Pip made poor choices in the way he treated others and how he spent his money, but decided to be much kinder to Joe and Biddy and set aside money for Herbert. Even though these characters were bad, they still did good things. Sometimes people do this in real life.

In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens tells the story in the perspective of a young boy growing up in England during the Victorian Era. Philip “Pip” Pirrip is the protagonist, where we discover his life experiences and expectations through his narration. Pip’s sister, Mrs. Joe, and her husband, Mr. Joe, greatly influence his childhood. He meets many people later on who teaches him that not everyone will be happy and what it really means to have “great expectations”. Through Pip’s journey, Dickens suggests that happiness becomes achievable if one learns to accept and fix their flaws.

In the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Pip, an orphan raised by his cruel sister, Mrs. Joe, and her kindly husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith, becomes very ashamed of his background after a sudden chain of events which drives him to a different social class. Pip's motive to change begins when he meets a beautiful girl named Estella who is in the upper class. As the novel progresses, Pip attempts to achieve the greater things for himself. Overtime, Pip realizes the dangers of being driven by a desire of wealth and social status. The novel follows Pip's process from childhood innocence to experience.

Through her attempts she replaces her daughter’s heart with ice and breaks young men’s hearts. In Dickens’ bildungsroman Great Expectations, Pip and Miss Havisham’s morally ambiguous characterization helps develop the theme, that one needs to learn to be resilient. The internal struggles that Pip experiences through the novel, reveal his displeasure to his settings and

Pip becomes more grateful to his friends. After leaving them his attitude changes towards his friends as he now knows what his friends have done for him and is sad because he did not do anything to show his gratitude to them. When pip leaves his friends, he is changed by their parting.

Known as liberation from the human condition, Moksha is the Hindu term for becoming enlightened, which can only be achieved by following one’s Dharma. Although many moments could be defined as the point in which Pip achieves Moksha, one moment stands out in particular. After learning of Orlick’s plan to murder him, Pip’s entire life flashed between his eyes, and even noted of how he had moved on past his worldly desires when Pip says, “The death close before me was terrible, but far more terrible than death was the dread of being misremembered after death” (Dickens 425). In the quote, Pip is describing what he truly values in life, helping others and forming relationships with the important figures in his life, including Joe, Biddy, and Herbert. This displays that Pip has began to subconsciously follow his Dharma, and has achieved Moksha in doing so.

Not just does Pip treat Joe in an unexpected way, Joe likewise treats Pip distinctively in view of their distinction in social class. He starts to call Pip "sir" which annoyed him in light of the fact that "sir" was the title given to individuals of higher class. Pip felt that they were still great companions and that they ought to treat one another as equivalents. Joe soon leaves and clarifies his initial separating, "Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever such a large number of partings welded together, as I may say,

Ponyboy and Cherry talk to each other even though Ponyboy is a greaser and Cherry is a Socs. Her boyfriend comes and wants Cherrry to come. Instead, Two Bit refuses and wants to start a fight, Cherry decides to go with Bob. Ponyboy falls asleep in the lot and is really late coming home. Darry is very mad and slaps Ponyboy, Ponyboy decides to leave and go to the park with Johnny.