Marsh Country Mysteries
This is the specific location where Pip first encounters the escaped convict while visiting his parents' graves.
What is the churchyard/graveyard?
All of the clocks in Miss Havisham’s house are permanently stopped at this exact time.
What is twenty minutes to nine (8:40)?
Joe’s trade, which he attempts to teach Pip as an apprentice.
What is a blacksmith?
This is the name Mrs. Joe has given to the wax-ended cane she uses to discipline Pip "by hand."
What is the Tickler?
These are the two strict conditions Pip must follow to receive his fortune from his anonymous benefactor.
What are keeping his name and never inquiring into the identity of his benefactor?
Pip is ordered to bring these two specific items to the convict "early tomorrow morning" at the old Battery.
What are a file and "wittles" (food/pork pie)?
The name of Miss Havisham’s estate
What is "Enough"?
Joe tells Pip this famous piece of advice regarding social status: "If you can’t get to be uncommon through going straight, you’ll never get to do it through going ______."
What is crooked? (Alternatively: "You must first be common to become uncommon.")
This "arrogant" uncle and corn-chandler takes credit for Pip’s rise in status, despite often treating him poorly at breakfast.
Who is Uncle Pumblechook?
Pip’s primary internal conflict in Stage 1 is the shame he feels toward this person and place after meeting Estella.
What are Joe and his home (the forge)?
To hide the fact that he stole brandy from the pantry, Pip refills the bottle with this foul-tasting liquid used around the forge.
What is tar-water?
This is the "common" card game Pip and Estella play during their first meeting, which Estella uses to mock Pip’s upbringing.
What is Beggar My Neighbor?
This is the main reason Joe never received a proper education as a child, leading to his illiteracy.
What is his abusive/alcoholic father, who kept him from school to work?
After Mrs. Joe is attacked, this character moves in to the Gargery house to help nurse her and eventually becomes Pip’s confidante.
Who is Biddy?
At the end of Stage 1, Pip is absolutely certain that this person is his secret benefactor.
Who is Miss Havisham?
This is how the local villagers are warned that a convict has escaped from the "Hulks" (prison ships).
What is the firing of a cannon (or "great guns")?
Upon his first visit, Pip tells a series of wild lies to his family, including a claim that he and Estella played with these items in a black velvet coach.
What are flags and swords?
After Pip learns of his "Great Expectations," he asks Biddy to do this for Joe so that Joe might be "worthier" of Pip’s new society.
What is to educate him/teach him everything she knows?
This is the name of Joe’s surly, slouching journeyman (assistant).
Who is Dolge Orlick?
Pip’s guilt over the attack on Mrs. Joe is tied to this specific item found at the scene of the crime.
What is a convict's leg iron (that had been filed down)?
During the hunt on the marshes, Pip’s convict does this surprising thing to protect Pip from being caught as a thief.
What is confessing to the soldiers that he (the convict) stole the food and file from the blacksmith himself?
During one of his visits, Pip encounters a "pale young gentleman" in the garden and does this, earning a rare kiss from Estella.
What is pummelling/beating him in a fight?
When Mr. Jaggers offers Joe money as compensation for losing Pip as an apprentice, Joe responds in this way.
What is rejecting it (violently or with hurt pride), stating that Pip is more of a son than an apprentice?
At the Three Jolly Bargemen bar, Pip is terrified when he sees a mysterious stranger stirring his drink with this specific object.
What is the file (the one Pip stole for the convict)?
As he departs for London in Chapter 19, why is Pip overcome by guilt?
What is he is ashamed of Joe and has been a snob to him?