Dear teacher and fellows,
How are you? I want to share with you my impressions on those passages that I have read.
During the reading of this novel,I found some characters in it. The main character was a little boy who was six years old. He is a positive character. His full name was Philip Pirrip. So,he called himself Pip and came to be called Pip. Because of the fact that he was an orphan he lived with his sister - Mrs.Joe Gargery and her blacksmith husband - Joe Gargery. They lived in the marsh country,down by the river,within,as the river wound,twenty miles of the sea. The boy never saw his parents : Philip and Georgiana - they died and also their infant children - Alexander,Bartholomew,Abraham,Tobias and Rofer died.
The boy relieved his pain trying to imagine his parent's appearances from their tombstones and from the shape of the letters on them. He liked to go to the churchyard but one day as he stayed there he was scaried by a fearful man with a great iron on his leg who jumped out of a hiding place and grabed Pip by the throat.
He demanded that Pip must bring him some food and a sharp. Then the man disappeared telling to the boy that he would cut out his heart and liver if he didn't obey. The boy went home.
In the boy's words : " My sisters, Mrs.Joe Gargery,was more than twenty years older than I....; She was not a good-looking woman,my sister;and I had a general impression that she must have made Joe Gargery marry her by hand.; My sister,Mrs.Joe,with black hair and eyes,had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap.; She was tall and bony, and almost always wore a coarse apron,fastened over her figure behind with two loops,and having a square impregnable bib in front, that was stuck full of pins and needles.; She made it a powerful merit in herself,and a strong reproach against Joe,that she wore this apron so much.; Though I really see no reason why she should have worn it at all : or why,if she did wear it at all,she should not have taken it off,every day of her life." there is his sister's direct characterization.
There is also Joe's direct characterization : " Joe was a fair man,with curls of flaxen hair on each side of his smooth face,and with eyes of such a very undecided blue that they seemed to have somehow got mixed with their own whites. He was a mild,good-natured,sweet-tempered,easy-going,foolish,dear fellow – a sort of Hercules in strength,and also in weakness." Pip described Joe as his best friend with whom he liked to talk but he could not understand why a man as gentle and sweet as Joe would ever marry a woman as mean and hard as his sister.
When Pip went home,his sister was not at home,she was looking for him,there was only Joe. When she came home she disgraced Pip and asked where he was. He told to her that he was in the churchyard. After,they had their dinner and Pip succeeded to steal some food and ran off into the marshes to find that man.
Here I stopped. I will read more because I am curious what will happen further. I liked it,but it is a little bit difficult because as in the previous book there are many unknown words and no time to look them up in the dictionary:) Guys,what about you? Do you like this book?
How are you? I want to share with you my impressions on those passages that I have read.
During the reading of this novel,I found some characters in it. The main character was a little boy who was six years old. He is a positive character. His full name was Philip Pirrip. So,he called himself Pip and came to be called Pip. Because of the fact that he was an orphan he lived with his sister - Mrs.Joe Gargery and her blacksmith husband - Joe Gargery. They lived in the marsh country,down by the river,within,as the river wound,twenty miles of the sea. The boy never saw his parents : Philip and Georgiana - they died and also their infant children - Alexander,Bartholomew,Abraham,Tobias and Rofer died.
The boy relieved his pain trying to imagine his parent's appearances from their tombstones and from the shape of the letters on them. He liked to go to the churchyard but one day as he stayed there he was scaried by a fearful man with a great iron on his leg who jumped out of a hiding place and grabed Pip by the throat.
He demanded that Pip must bring him some food and a sharp. Then the man disappeared telling to the boy that he would cut out his heart and liver if he didn't obey. The boy went home.
In the boy's words : " My sisters, Mrs.Joe Gargery,was more than twenty years older than I....; She was not a good-looking woman,my sister;and I had a general impression that she must have made Joe Gargery marry her by hand.; My sister,Mrs.Joe,with black hair and eyes,had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap.; She was tall and bony, and almost always wore a coarse apron,fastened over her figure behind with two loops,and having a square impregnable bib in front, that was stuck full of pins and needles.; She made it a powerful merit in herself,and a strong reproach against Joe,that she wore this apron so much.; Though I really see no reason why she should have worn it at all : or why,if she did wear it at all,she should not have taken it off,every day of her life." there is his sister's direct characterization.
There is also Joe's direct characterization : " Joe was a fair man,with curls of flaxen hair on each side of his smooth face,and with eyes of such a very undecided blue that they seemed to have somehow got mixed with their own whites. He was a mild,good-natured,sweet-tempered,easy-going,foolish,dear fellow – a sort of Hercules in strength,and also in weakness." Pip described Joe as his best friend with whom he liked to talk but he could not understand why a man as gentle and sweet as Joe would ever marry a woman as mean and hard as his sister.
When Pip went home,his sister was not at home,she was looking for him,there was only Joe. When she came home she disgraced Pip and asked where he was. He told to her that he was in the churchyard. After,they had their dinner and Pip succeeded to steal some food and ran off into the marshes to find that man.
Here I stopped. I will read more because I am curious what will happen further. I liked it,but it is a little bit difficult because as in the previous book there are many unknown words and no time to look them up in the dictionary:) Guys,what about you? Do you like this book?
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