Question about a Passage

There is one aspect of Pip's visit to Mr. Jaggers house which I don't understand. When he went to dine with Mr. Jaggers, he told Molly to show her wrists. "Molly, let them see your wrists...The last wrist was much disfigured-deeply scarred and scarred across and across."(228)Chapter 26. I don't know why Mr. Jaggers would want to show everyone Molly's wrists so badly.


The question I have is: Why does Molly refuse so much to show her wrists(and also why Mr. Jaggers wants her to show), and what is it trying to point out? My interpretation is that Mr. Jaggers wanted them to see what Molly went through in her child-hood or past life, to get where she is now.

Great Expectations: Photo Cast

I chose this picture because it represented everybody else in Pip's past life such as Mrs/Mr. Joe, Biddy, and everybody else he was living near. Pip is the bird flying away, and leaving his past behind. As of now, the birds are happy-like, but what Pip doesn't realize, is that he would have been happier staying with Biddy and Mr. Joe, other than leaving and becoming a "gentleman". Also, since usually the other birds are expecting the leaving bird to come back, Pip might come back later in the book.

Great Expectations: The First Stage

The quote that Pip is referring to explains several aspects of how the events occurred in his life. It is mainly about how a "memorable day" creates a first link or chain for the future. This means that this one single event has affected him, emotionally and maybe physically for the rest of his life, creating a "chain". I believe that this day was the day that he had lied to his sister, and Joe. He is altered when he realizes how lying impacted Joe, how he was so trusting to Pip. After Pip learns about Joe's life, and his appreciation to his dad and lying, he is forever changed by how Joe feels.

Pip learns that he has to appreciate everything that he has, no matter what happens. Joe endured the pain from his father, and still loved him. Pip, knowing this, is more mature and understandable, and learns that he shouldn't lie about things, and respect his sister and Joe. One memorable day I had that began my "chain" was when I took my first piano lesson. I was amazed on all the different notes the piano could make, and how good my teacher was. From then on, I was inspired to learn piano well, and I am pretty decent as of today. Music changed my view on life; there are many things that music can contribute to going from entertainment and beyond.

ANOTHER view of the quote refers to Pip's first day at Miss Havisham's house. This changes or alters Pip's life when Havisham brings up Estella to him. Pip immediately becomes attracted to her, and soon learns that she was cruel, and mean. Also, Pip learns many things, and has changed his view on being a blacksmith, like Joe.

Collaborating on Your Group Essay

Hi Cole and Nicole,
My main topic is to explain how Wilde uses small institutions to project the ways of marriage during the Victorian Age.

Our Thesis:
In Oscar Wilde's play, The importance of Being Earnest, Wilde uses black humor and a satirical manner to show the shallow, and hypocritical views on marriage in the Victorian Era.

I plan to take a smaller path to explain how he uses these hypocritical and shallow views of marriage, such as "Bunburying", and how it relates to marriage. My CD is just giving a brief explanation of what bunburying is, then describing how it's used throughout the book with examples.
Another thing that I would explain is either the age between men and women when they get married, or the role of women in society. I would explain how people get married and what women usually do when they get married. I'm not sure on whether Nicole is doing that, but I'll figure out later when I see your blogs.

The Importance Of Being Earnest/Victorian Research

Researching the Victorian Era helped me understand many things in "The Importance of Being Earnest" such as social classes, marriage, and even education. I learned that many young women did not get taught school subjects like German, but instead were taught to become a normal housewife. Rich people however, were usually taught regular school skills instead of housework skills, since they most of the time would marry another rich person and have servants. If you were a poor person, marrying a rich person would be very unlikely. But even though Cecily was given the opportunity to learn school subjects, she disgusted it. "Horrid Political Economy! Horrid Geography! Horrid, horrid German!"-Cecily p.40.

I also learned that marrying your own cousin was normal back then. It was considered normal to become engaged to somebody after only just meeting them. Even more, most people who loose their husbands/wifes, usually get re-married very soon. Marriage was known as "business" back then. For example, when Lady Bracknell questions Jack before he gets married with Gwendolyn(p.23-27). Basically, for Lady Bracknell, marriage was based on a persons' background(lower class, higher class). I'm glad we did research on the Victorian Era, because it has helped me understand many aspects of "The Importance of Being Earnest".

New Year's Resolution

For me, New Year Resolutions aren't really that important to me, since I usually forget about them a week later. But, I do have a goal academically, and that is to get A's in all my classes except math(A-). Honors Algebra 2 is kind of hard, there are a few people in my class though that have A's, so I'm going to try my best. In fact, I have an A- right now, all I have to get is an A on another test. The only problem is the tests are worth 80% of your grade..so yeah I'm going to have to study more, and concentrate. My mom pushes me to get A's on tests alot.

Another thing I like to do is procrastinate. I always wait until the last day to finish a (semi) big project. I realize now that the sooner I can finish projects and homework, the more time I have to do other things. Also, it can help raise my grade if I spend more time over a wide span of days, other than those 5 hours in 1 day. Hopefully these goals will stick with me throughout the year, and get me a fresh start to high school.

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