Great Expecations: Stage One

What Pip said was basically saying that your life can be a long chain of good or bad. This chain starts with one link. The link is a life changing event in your life that more than likely happened at a young age and was almost utterly uncontrollable. When Pip takes his first step into Miss Havisham's house, his life changes forever. He no longer thinks of himself in the same way. Estella has brought to his attention things that alter his feelings of self-confidence and family status. This changes him as an individual as he thinks himself 'common', or low class. Even his feelings for Joe and his profession are transformed as he gains the desire to rise to the upper-class and become a gentleman.

The first link that sprouted a very important chain of mine occurred in the summer of 2005. That summer my mom forced me to attend a soccer tryout. It was my first time to ever play but I immediately changed my thinking of the sport. This link started a chain of sports and excitement as my life was slowly consumed into soccer. My memorable event is still being built upon as I will next week try out for the school soccer team.

TIBE Group Write

My paragraph is about the morals, thoughts, and emotions of the characters, so I focused on things the characters say or do, that may reveal dishonesty in their character. In my first point I wrote about Algernon and his thoughts about Bunburying. My second concrete detail is about some of Jack's thoughts about dishonesty not being a big deal when he's the one lying. In my third point, I talk about the word/name Earnest.

In the commentaries for the first two concrete details I talked about how these characters can be used to show Wilde's thoughts of the Victorian Era and how society was fake. This links them to our thesis. I also write about how their thoughts show that it was not bad at all to lie. In the third point about the name and word Earnest I talk about how I is a huge part in the story that Wilde uses to convey his thoughts more than any of the other pieces of dishonesty. I also put in a little about the irony of the word and the way it is used in the play.