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Oh, to have a student like Pip! Hungry for education? Awesome...and he wants to share his knowledge! his motive for sharing needs adjustment, though.
What do you think of the Orlick character? What stands out about this man? I have to say that I did like the fact that he said many of the things to Mrs. Joe that Joe may have thought at one point or another. We also get to see another side of Joe due to the resulting fight.
Pip's visit to Miss Havisham only results in more frustration, but we are left again with a mystery that keeps us reading...Mrs. Joe down for the count.
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When i first read that Pip was gving lessons to Joe, i thought it very thoughful, until i found out why he was doing it. Joe is not a person to be ashamed of in my opinion. To only be teaching him because he doesnt want Estella to look down upon him, is not a good reason. Orlick when first described, i have to admit, i did picture Igor from Young Frankenstien. Orlick has the hunched over look giving him that personality trat of not caring or knowing where his life is going. I was proud of Orlick though for telling off Mrs. Joe. He was saying to her what i was thinking throughout the whole book, and probably Joe and Pip were thinking too. I liked how Dickens put the "leave her be" that Joe said in Parentheses, it gav me that feel like he really didnt want the fight to stop he was just saying it because Mrs. Joe would have wanted him to. You see this again with the fight, i believe he only fough Orlick because if he hadn't Mrs. Joe would have taken some of her anger out of Joe. After the fight Joe and Orlick are acting like nothing happened, which shows Orlick's understanding of what Joe did and why. At Miss Havisham's i noticed that it was a Sunday again, and the mention of her birthday was brought up again, has the time went by that fast, or is Miss Havisham living in another fantasy of her past life? When i first read that Mrs. Joe died, i was a little excited because i was annoyed at her character, and now i know i wont have to listen to her anymore.
sorry for some mispellings and mess ups, i was typing pretty fast.
Orlick is a disgusting creature in my opinion. He seems dirty and uncivilized. That is why he started making trouble in the first place; yes, Mrs. Joe did need a good telling off, but not by her husband's assistant. Mrs. Joe is a lady no matter what and in those times, women were to be treated with at least some courtesy. The fight was surprizing; I was not expecting that from Joe, but he was stuck between a rock and a hard place. A man cannot just stand there and listen to what Orlick said about his wife and take it. Even if Joe had let it happen, then Mrs. Joe would of had his neck for it. Finally, I thought Mrs. Joe was dead too, but I was confused because I was all 'wow, and she seemed important," but I got bored and read on. I was relieved/ annoyed to find that she was not dead, only severley mentally impaired.
this book would start getting good if Joe, Orlick, and Pip formed an elite commando unit and tracked down the convicts, only to find out that one of the convicts was, in reality, only committing the crimes so that he could learn more about criminals and fight crime with his father's fortune and the four men will team up and go on adventures together. But that's not what's going to happen, so I guess this book will never get good. I can't really say this book is bad, it's held my attention at least a little bit but I can say for sure that I couldn't care less what happens to these characters and probably won't pick up this book for another two weeks. Barely anything interesting happens, and when it does it seems to have zero consequences for the characters. Like when Orlick and Joe fought, they acted like nothing happened. Unless Orlick was the one that attacked Georgiaphina, or whatever her name is. Then the fight would have provoked him, so I guess Joe's actions caused his wife to be hurt but if orlick was really pushed to attack her by being beat up by Joe, then Pip is just as likely to murder Ethell for looking down on him. Why is it so easy for criminals to escape? why is Pip such a little weirdo? Why doesn't he get a life instead of creeping on rich women? orlick is really the only character I like at this point because he stands up for himself, even though he seems to be a lowlife.
Orlick seems to be the person who doesn't really care for consequences. He's a brute who enjoys in terrorizing others or in the ways of internet lingo, "trolling" others for his amusement. This is evident when he continually provokes Mrs. Gargery when his master, Joe tells him not to. Orlick enjoys the amusing rattles of the people he bothers. Joe helpless in this petty quarrel between his wife and his student, eventually gives in and fights with Orlick to appease his wife. The thing that caught my eye was that, Joe also appeases Orlick as well, by offering him drinks and peaceful discussion, as if nothing ever happened. We can see from this side of Joe, he really is a pacifist and wants to end conflict as cleanly as possible while maintaining the status quo of both parties.
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