Piping hot plot
Exposition: Who Pip first met in the churchyard.
Who is "the convict" aka Magwitch?
The name of Miss Havisham's house.
What is Satis House?
The character who has all the clocks in the house "stopped at twenty minutes to nine."
Who is Miss Havisham?
Pip's desire to become a "gentleman" explores ideas of what...
Ambition, self-improvement, etc.
The character who obsessively washes his hands.
Who is Mr. Jaggers?
Rising Action: The story really begins when Pip gets this "job."
Becoming a playmate to Stella.
Joe's blacksmithing shop in the marches.
What is the forge? OR Where Pip lives?
Robs Mr. Pumblechook...may have attacked Mrs. Joe.
Who is Orlick?
Dickens uses this theme to show the difference between people during the Victorian Period.
Social class/wealth.
Why are there two endings?
People thought the first ending was too depressing!
Climax: Everything changes for Pip when he learns...this.
Pip accompanies Estella to...(Hint: Also capital of VA.)
What is Richmond?
"I found him to be a dry man, rather short in stature, with a square wooden face, whose expression seemed to have been imperfectly chipped out with a dull-edged chisel."
Who is Mr. Wemmick?
Convicts, handcuffs, stealing, and Pip's struggle with the "institutional justice system" represent what theme?
Crime, Guilt, and/or Innocence
Pip's real name.
What is Philip Pirrip?
Denouement: Joe's story is resolved after this event.
Marrying Biddy OR nursing Pip back to health.
Where Pip and Joe encounter the convict's friend... (Hint: a bar.)
What is the Three Jolly Bargeman?
Pip's benefactor
Who is Magwitch?
Going from “I was a common laboring boy; that my hands were coarse, that my boots were thick,” ➡️ “contract[ing] expensive habits.”
Sophistication, fanciness, OR Pip attempting to become someone he's not.
Where Herbert takes his new business.
Where is Cairo (Egypt)?
Conclusion: How does the story end?
Revised: Pip and Estella end up together.
The place where the majority of the story takes place when Pip is an adult.
What is London?
'Oh! I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, ... and of course, if it ceased to beat I should cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no--sympathy--sentiment--nonsense.''
Who is Estella?
What theme is used as a way for Pip to achieve social mobility and personal growth?
How many parts does the novel have, and (BONUS) what does each represent?
What is 3: 1) childhood innocence 2) fall from grace/development into a snob 3) adulthood redemption when he achieves forgiveness and inner peace?