Chapter 49
How much money is Miss Havisham going to pay to support Herbert?
£900 pounds
What happened to Pip in helping Miss Havisham?
His hands, arm, elbow, as high as the shoulder, and even hair had been burned or caught by fire.
This chapter begins with Pip trying to figure out and confirm the parentage of Estella. Why is it important to keep her parentage secret?
To protect her from her parents' disreputable backgrounds and her mother's past crime.
in Chapter 51 Jaggers says multiple times ... put to the case, ... put to the case, ... add to the case, ... put that last case to yourself - what's the literary term?
Anaphora
What time is Pip to be at the old sluice-house?
9 PM, at night
When Pip leaves Miss Havisham's, what vision does he have?
How does Pip learn the story of Molly and Magwitch?
From Herbert, who has heard it from Magwitch, who is staying at Clara's.
What's Pip and Herbert's plan for getting Magwitch out?
Go down the river in the row boat beyond Gravesend to a Steamer
What mood do the opening 8 paragraphs of chapter 53 evoke?
Dark, melancholic, dreadful, ominous, suspenseful, spooky, ghostly, isolated, it begins to rain etc. - it's Gothic
In this chapter, what is Pip trying to uncover or sleuth out?
Who Estella's mother is.
What couple had a child? And who is the child?
Molly and Provis - Estella.
What key information does Pip know that his guardian, Jaggers, does not?
That Magwitch is Estella's father
How is Miss Havisham doing?
Still ill, but considered somewhat improving.
What happens to Pip?
Candle gets extinguished, he gets lassoed with a "strong running noose" and bound to a wall
Pip leaves the brewery, but then, after having witnessed the vision, decides to turn back. What happens?
He goes back to the room where he left her, and sees her sitting near the fire. As he again is about to go out he sees her ignite in a great flaming light and run towards him.
How did Molly kill a person that was much larger than she is?
She throttled them.
What does Jaggers absolutely refuse to have in his office?
Feelings
Pip finds an anonymous letter asking if he wants some info on his Uncle Provis. Where are they asking him to meet - alone?
At the old sluice-house by the limekiln. Sluice-house: houses sluice gates or pumps for a dam or water system. Limekiln: burns limestone to produce lime used in fertilizing soil, making mortar for construction
We learn through Orlick's own admission that he attacked Mrs. Joe. Why did he do it?
He was jealous of Pip and Biddy. He was in Orlick's way (as apprentice at the Forge). Orlick tries to lay blame of Mrs. Joe's death on Pip.
How does Miss Havisham's character have a profound reversal?
1. She questions having moulded Estella for revenge
2. She says she meant to save Estella from misery like her own
3. She wants Pip's forgiveness and kneels at his feet
How old was Pip when Molly was acquitted?
Magwitch says, "it happened some 3 or 4 years then," [when Pip was in the churchyard]. So, 3 or 4 years old.
After a long hypothetical of knowing nothing of the relations of Molly, Magwitch, and Estella, Jaggers suggests that rather than keeping Estella in his "poor dreams," Pip should do what?
"... chop off that bandaged left hand ... with the bandaged right hand ... and then pass the chopper to Wemmick" to cut off the right hand.
What rumours are there about Pip towards his "earliest benefactor"?
He's ungrateful. "He gives the cold shoulder to the man that made him."
Who saves Pip? And how did they know?
Trabb's Boy! Herbert and Startop to the rescue. Pip, rushing out of his chambers, dropped the letter.