1. Great Expectations Ch. 32-33
By: Megan Otto and Bri Menotti

2. The What (Ch. 32)
Pip receives a letter from Estella saying the she would like to meet up with pip on account of Ms. Havisham. While Pip is waiting for Estella to arrive in London, he accompanies Mr. Wemmick, Mr. Jagger’s clerk, to Newgate prison. While there, Pip is introduced to the dirty life of convicts in prison. He notices that Mr. Wemmick “walked among the prisoners much as a gardener might walk among his plants”(pg. 276, Dickins). Pip meets one convict known as “the Colonel” who is soon to be sentenced to death because the evidence is against him is too strong. On the way out, Pip refers to the Colonel as Mr. Wemmick’s “dead plant”. At the end of the chapter, Estella arrives in a carriage waving to Pip.

3. The Why
Pip gets to experience how the convicts are treated and the daily lives of convicts at Newgate prison.

4. The How
By visiting the prison, Pip is reminded of his past encounters with convicts, and he yearns to forget about his past and move on to bigger and better things such as Estella.

5. The Message
Sometimes the easiest way to move forward is to forget the past. “While my mind was thus engaged, I thought of the beautiful young Estella, proud and refined, coming towards me, and I thought with absolute abhorrence of the contrast between the jail and her” (pg. 279, Dickens). Pip goes on to ”beat the prison dust off my feet and exhale its air from my lungs”. He is trying to rid himself of the past.

6. Satire/Figurative Language
Figurative language: Imagery is used on page 276 when Pip says “It was visiting time when Wemmick took me in; and a potman was going his rounds with beer; and the prisoners, behind bars, in yards, were buying beer and talking to friends; and a frowzy, ugly, disorderly, depressing scene it was.
Satire: Charles Dickens is satirizing lawyers by emphasizing that even during the trial, a lawyer isn't going to help you become free. If you are convicted, you are screwed.

7. The What (Ch. 33)
When Estella arrives, she greets Pip and tells him that she will pay for everything along their carriage ride to Estella’s new home. While on the road, they stop for a bite to eat and continue conversation. Estella tells Pip about the horrible things the Pocket’s have been writing to Ms. Havisham, but she also assures Pip there is nothing anyone can say to make Ms. Havisham not like Pip. Pip learns of Estella’s troubled childhood. Pip gets to kiss Estella on the cheek once again, but has to leave soon after. He is sad to leave Estella. When Pip arrives home, Ms. Pocket realizes that her baby has ingested needles, and she sends him to bed as a cure.

8. The Why
Pip realizes that Estella didn't have a perfect childhood even though she was in the upper class, and that there might be hope for him to have a future with Estella.

9. The How
Estella was impacted because she learned to trust Pip more, and she opens up to talk about her childhood with him. This conversation led to her calling Pip by his real name instead of referring to him as boy, as well as her allowing Pip to kiss her cheek.

10. The Message
Don’t give up on your dreams, for they may end up coming true. Previously, Estella has referred to Pip buy his name “It was the first time she had ever called me by my name. Of course, she did so purposefully, and knew that I should treasure it up.” (287, Dickens). Also, Estella allows Pip to kiss her cheek. These evidences show that Estella is warming up to Pip.

11. Satire/Figurative Language
Figurative Language: Personification is used on page 287 when Dickens wrote ”A bell with an old voice…”. This quote was showing that the bell was old by giving it human characteristics.
Satire: Dickens I satirizing that while upper class folks have more money and live more lavishly, they still have expectations to live up to. “We have no choice, you and I, but to obey our instructions. We are not free to follow our own devices, you and I”’ (pg 281, Dickens)

12. Works Cited
"The Victorian Web (www,victorianweb.org)." The Victorian Web (www,victorianweb.org). N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan
Priestly, Philip. Victorian Prison Lives: English Prison Biography New York: Methuen, 1985.
"The Late Outbreak Among the Convicts at Chatham." The Illustrated London News (March ):