Question about a passage. What are they talking about?

Today, (March 10, Wednesday) we had a list of questions to answer in class. One of them being something like; Why, at the end of chapter 31, are Pip's anxieties increased instead of settled. So I started thinking about it, and I realized something was funny about chapter 31. Throughout the whole thing Pip is in a bit of a bad mood because he loves Estella and she still treats him like mud. But at the very end (On page 259), he all the sudden becomes mega depressed. it says "Miserably I went to bed after all, and miserably thought of Estella, and miserably dreamed that my expectations were all cancelled, and that I had to give my hand in marriage to Herbert's Clara, or play Hamlet to Miss Havisham's Ghost, before twenty thousand people, without knowing twenty words of it."

So my question is; Why did Pip all the sudden get super depressed at the end of chapter 31?

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You may be confused as to why a butterfly relates to Great Expectations but to me its rather obvious. One of the themes of this book is Pip growing up and becoming a man. The process of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly really symbolizes this. It also relates in the way that Pip is shedding his country origins to go to the city to become a gentleman, much in the same way that a caterpillar sheds its skin to become something sophisticated.

Great Expectations: The First Stage

What Pip is referring to is that fateful first day at Miss Havisham's house. It was on this day that the wheel in his head started turning. That he first thought about his commonplace life, and how Miss Havisham and Estella are "better than him." He was so altered by this that he became ashamed of his home. He was fearful that Estella would see him working as a blacksmith and look down upon him (more so than she already did) Pip didn't want his life anymore. He started thinking about how he wanted to be a gentleman. He started thinking of how he was different.

A similar thing happen to me at the start of seventh grade. you see, I was homeschooled up until that day and I was a very socially awkward girl. I was weird and new. For the first part of seventh grade, I was very ashamed of who I was. I was also very naive, so I didn't realize what I was doing that repelled others. However, the first day this new girl came to my school, I thought how it could all be better. That this girl didn't know me, so I could try it again. It was because of her that I was able to except myself.

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The Importance Of Being Earnest essay

So for my transition sentence, I have something like this; "Even though the different stages of dishonesty are important to the theme and the plot, the title is a vital contrast to the entire play.”
One of my concrete details is the last sentence when Jack says “I’ve now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.” then I will go on to talk about how that sums up the entire play by acting as a moral for it, proving the significance of the title.
The second one is how Miss Prism loses the baby. I am using this so I can talk about how is really is important to be honest and truthful because the baby could have died because Miss Prism wasn’t truthful.
And the last point I will hit in my paragraph is How Gwen and Cecily were fighting about who really is Ernest. If Jack and Algy were earnest in the first place, they could have avoided all of this and not have hurt the people they love.

New Year's Resolution!

So I am going through my short comings, and believe me there are many. I decided to tackle my laziness. (Sheepish grin) But its true. I am very lazy. I have to try to condense my resolution as well as lengthen it. I can't just say "I resolve to not be lazy" and I can't go on a big long tangent to describe (in detail) how I want to fix it because believe me; I will. So I decide to tackle one aspect of my laziness because that will make it shorter. Here it is: Unless the project in school is interesting, I leave it till the last second. So I resolve to fix this in the next paragraph.


So my new resolution is as follows; "I resolve to complete every project a day before it is actually due, AND spread out the work over several days." To do this I will tell people about projects the day I get them and have them help me remember to spread out the work until I can remember to do it myself. Also what helps is to mark the day the project is do a day or two on my planner before it is actually due. Ta-Da! My plan is set.








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Green is AWESOME!

POL "Fredrick Douglas"

This performance was extremely good. The girl's use of dramatization should a very good understanding. She stressed the appropriate words and her voice was very clear. She had a very good "look at me" presence which really helped her physical presence. Also she had very appropriate hand motions that went along well with her dramatization.


From this performance I got that this poem is about segregation. The poem talks about how this man, an African American, was able to do great things and everyone is incredulous. It makes me think that the person who wrote the poem was a very unprejudiced and was trying to influence others to be unprejudiced by using this poem to try and relate to them, but then switch the poem to make them see his point of view.








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TKAMB Motif. ~MOCKING BIRD~

You might be wondering how the book TKAMB has enhanced my understanding of motif. Or you might not be. either way, I still plan to tell you. When I was reading Catcher in the Rye I thought motif was whenever that particular item that represented the motif was mentioned. I now realize that it is whenever the action or feeling that the motif symbolizes comes up counts for motif. Such as when Helen Robinson is trying to walk to work, and the Ewells are being awful to her, is an instance of motif. Since Helen is one of the people that represents a 'mocking bird', being awful to her, in that way, represents 'killing' her. (sad huh? if you make fun of and pester an innocent person you are 'killing' them)

So now we move on to what exactly is the mocking bird motif. The mocking bird motif represents any innocent person that is generally nice and is not doing any harm and that it would be like a sin to kill them. There. I hope that explains it. But now how does it add a symbolic level of meaning to the other themes in the novel? Well it adds a symbolic level of meaning to the other themes in the novel by considering with them. When you find an instance of the motif in the book, you can also see one or two (or maybe three) of the themes showing through. Take our example. For instance, when Helen was walking to work and the Ewells were being awful to her you could see the themes of prejudice and of good vs. evil. The Ewells were being awful to her because she was Tom Robinson's wife. Think about this though; why did Bob Ewell decide to take Tom to court? It was because he knew he could win against him because he was black. So right there you can see prejudice. The Ewells were being awful to Helen because she was black. You can also see the theme of good vs. evil. First off you have to ask who represents good, and who represents evil? Then ask were the actions of the Ewells good or evil? Since they were evil that sticks Helen on the side of the good, since she was trying to provide for her family. She there you have it; a conflict between good and evil.

There you have it folks. You have your answers. How has reading To Kill a Mockingbird enhanced your understanding of the term "motif?", and What is the "mockingbird motif" and how does it add a symbolic level of meaning to the other themes in the novel? Ciao! Adios! Sayonara! Au revoir! Arrivederci!






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