** The vocab test will be available on ClassMarker from Friday, April 22 to Sunday, April 24 at midnight. Be sure to write a sentence for each vocabulary word. ** Read chapters 40-43 in Great Expectations. Cut and paste the questions at the bottom of this page into a document and answer the questions.** Continue to do research and take notes. For next week, you should have about 40-50 note cards. These should be 3x5 cards with a full of information paraphrased. ** You may need to rewrite your thesis statement as you do research and tweak the content of your paper.
Don't forget...the rough draft for your paper needs to be handed in NO LATER THAN April 10, which is the last day of class
Great Expectations Chapters 40-45 Questions Stage III of Pip's Expectations
Chapter XL
1. What is the new problem that Pip faces?
2. What is his frightful but rich patron's name?
3. How does Pip's discussion with Jaggers disabuse him of the notion that Miss Havisham has been his patron?
Vocabulary: “I'm a heavy grubber" (voracious eater), admits Magwitch. Fresh from his voyage from “New South Wales" (the British colony in Australia) or "Botany Bay" (the harbour of present-day Sydney, where transported convicts disembarked), he wears a pea coat" (a sailor's heavy blue woolen jacket). The “Calendar" to which Pip alludes is the infamous Newgate Calendar (1771) containing the biographies of notorious criminals. Finally, Pip compares himself to Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein, “the imaginary student pursued by the misshapen creature who made me" for he sees Magwitch in terms of both the creator and the persecutor in the 1818 novel.
[The twenty-fifth instalment (18 May, 1861) ended ended here.]
Chapter XLI
1. Upon his return, what solution does Herbert suggest?
Vocabulary: “muzzled" = restricted, confined, suggesting that Magwitch is trying to be “genteel" for the sake of Pip and Herbert.
Chapter XLII: “Magwitch's Story"
1. What kind of life had Magwitch had as a child, and then as an adult?
2. What do we learn of the cause of Magwitch's hatred for Compeyson (the second convict)?
3. What do we learn about a certain “mad lady"?
4. What was the result of Magwitch's assault on Compeyson after their escape from the prison ship?
5. What details does Herbert add?
Vocabulary: “traveller's rest" = a tramps' shelter; “taturs" = potatoes; “Epsom" = famous racecourse; “dab" = expert; “the horrors" = violent fit of shaking caused by alcoholism; “Bridewells and Lock-ups" = prisons and jails (gaols).
[The twenty-sixth instalment (25 May, 1861) ended here.]
Chapter XLIII
1.What added danger do they now realize “Provis" to be in?
Chapter XLIV
1.Why does Miss Havisham lead Pip on to believe she was his benefactress?
2. What admission does Estella make to Pip?
3. What is Pip's reply?
[The twenty-seventh instalment (1 June, 1861) ended ended here.]
Chapter XLV
1. Why is it necessary to move Magwitch?
2. What does Wemmick advise Pip to get hold of?
Vocabulary: “Dover road" = road leading south to the port on the English Channel by which travellers made their way to France; “Divinely Righteous" = this satirical description of the four-post bedstead as a species of tyrant alludes to the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings espoused by the Stuart monarchs in the 17th c.; "Argus" = monster from Greco-Roman myth that possessed a hundred eyes, and therefore was never completely sound asleep but always on watch; “shoot the bridge" = pass rapidly under the dangerous narrow arches of Old London Bridge in a small boat at ebb tide on the Thames.
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