Great Expectations Chapters 27 & 28

1. Great ExpectationsChapters 27 & 28 Tricia Ekas Jessica Martin Erin Frisina

2. Plot Summary • Main Events • Important characters • Key Details • Chapter 27 • Pip receives a letter from Biddy. • Joe comes to visit Pip. • Joe and Pip don’t get along during Joe’s Visit • Pip learns how much Joe has changed, and learns how he feels about him now • Pip learns about back home, and everything that has been happening. • Chapter 28 • Pip makes a journey back home. • He ends up traveling on the same coach as the convicts. • In the end he goes to the Blue Boar.

3. Excerpts • Chapter 27 • “Unfortunately the morning was drizzly, and an angel could not have concealed the fact that Barnard was shedding sooty tears outside the window, like some weak giant of a sweep.” • Describing the setting at the beginning of the chapter. Page 202 • “Joe, taking it up carefully with both hands, like a bird’s-nest with eggs in it, wouldn’t hear of parting that that piece of property..” • Talking about how precious the hat was to Joe. Page 202-203 • “I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.” • Describing what had happened when Joe came to visit. Page 205 • “….whenever he subsided into affection, he called me Pip, and whenever he relapsed into politeness he called me sir…” • Showing how Joe had changed and now how he acted towards Pip. Page 206

4. Excerpts Chapter 28 • “It was clear that I must repair to our town next day, and at first flow of my repentance it was equally clear that I must stay at Joe’s.” • Pip talking about going home. Page 208 • “It was the afternoon coach by which I had taken my place, and, as winter had now come round, I should not arrive at my destination until two or three hours after dark. Our time of starting from the Cross Keys was two o’clock. I arrived on the ground with a quarter of an hour to spare, attended by the Avenger-if I may connect that expression with one who never attended on me if he could possibly help it.” • Pip explaining his journey home. Page 208 • “I entertain a conviction, based upon large experience, that if in the days of my prosperity I had gone to the North Pole, I should have met somebody there, wandering Eskimo or civilized man, who would have told me that Pumblechook was my earliest patron and the founder of my fortunes.” • Pip explaining what it was like to be home. Page 213

5. Main Events Chapter 27: - Joe comes to London to visit Pip, and while he’s there he tells Pip what it is like back home, and that Estella wishes to see him. Throughout their conversation, Pip acts very annoyed with Joe. Therefore, Joe left, leaving Pip feeling bad for how he acted. Chapter 28 - Pip leaves London to go back home; he rides a coach with two convicts, he recognizes one of them from his past. At one point, Pip falls asleep for a long time, and when he wakes up he hears the convict that he recognizes, telling the other that he was asked by the convict Pip helped in the marshes years ago, to deliver the money to Pip. Pip then gets off the coach and walks to the hotel where he reads that Pumblechook is taking credit for Pips rise in social status.