1. This quote shows that Pip feels very guilty for helping the convict by stealing the file and wittles from Joe and Mrs. Joe. Pip shows how culpable he is feeling by using personifications saying the creaking of the stairs seemed to shout to Mrs. Joe to wake up and catch him doing something that he knows is wrong. Pip is also under a lot of pressure to not get caught and because the convict threatened him by saying that if he didn’t bring him the file and wittles that he would be killed by having his heart and liver torn out of his body. (104 words)
2. This quote explains how Pip knew he was too scared and ashamed to do what he knew was the right thing, which was to tell Joe of his wrongdoings, just like he knew that he was too afraid to …show more content…
This quote shows that lately Pip has been very stressed, so much because he knew someone was watching him. He has been so worried that he decided he needed to take a break and get out of his normal routine, so he went to see the play Wopsle was in. Wopsle later tells him that he recognized the man sitting behind him as the other convict that they caught a long time ago, who Pip knows as Compeyson. Pip describes how the few moments he let his guard down was when what he had been stressing about actually occurred, thus causing him more anxiety after. Pip even uses the simile “as if I had shut an avenue of a hundred doors to keep him out, and then had found him at my elbow” to describe how he had done anything and everything he could to keep him away and it wasn’t until he took a breath that Compeyson was closest. (160 words)
13. This quote shows that Pip is finally realizing that he wants to be remembered in a good way by loved ones like Joe and Biddy after he’s passed, but he was being too snobbish and did not have a great relationship with most, if not all, of his friends and family. So, in the moment where he thinks he is going to die at the hands of Orlick, he figures out that he does not want to be remembered for being superior and arrogant like he would’ve been if he had been killed. Pip even says it is worse than death is itself. (103
2. This quote explains how Pip knew he was too scared and ashamed to do what he knew was the right thing, which was to tell Joe of his wrongdoings, just like he knew that he was too afraid to …show more content…
This quote shows that lately Pip has been very stressed, so much because he knew someone was watching him. He has been so worried that he decided he needed to take a break and get out of his normal routine, so he went to see the play Wopsle was in. Wopsle later tells him that he recognized the man sitting behind him as the other convict that they caught a long time ago, who Pip knows as Compeyson. Pip describes how the few moments he let his guard down was when what he had been stressing about actually occurred, thus causing him more anxiety after. Pip even uses the simile “as if I had shut an avenue of a hundred doors to keep him out, and then had found him at my elbow” to describe how he had done anything and everything he could to keep him away and it wasn’t until he took a breath that Compeyson was closest. (160 words)
13. This quote shows that Pip is finally realizing that he wants to be remembered in a good way by loved ones like Joe and Biddy after he’s passed, but he was being too snobbish and did not have a great relationship with most, if not all, of his friends and family. So, in the moment where he thinks he is going to die at the hands of Orlick, he figures out that he does not want to be remembered for being superior and arrogant like he would’ve been if he had been killed. Pip even says it is worse than death is itself. (103