Lori+Cook

=**Great Expectations**= = = =**Turn of the Screw**=
 * 1.“A fearful man, all in coarse grey...as he seized me by the chin.” || Pg 2/3 || (R) This quote shows the way in which humans analyze or judge each other, starting with a person’s appearance. We often then relate their appearance to certain character traits (in this case, horrible and mean). (E) The author is trying to establish how common this is in every situation, and is a way to make this book relevant to today’s readers. ||
 * 2. “Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.” || Pg 12/1 || (C) This can relate to every person’s life, since we have all been lied to at some point. I understand this view on life because I know there are questions my family or friends would never give me an honest answer to, so I just don’t ask them. This prevents me from having to always wonder if they are lying. ||
 * 3. “In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.” || Pg 40/2 || (CL) The author uses this quote to answer the question of why Pip stole the food from his house, and also why he decided not to tell Joe about it. He was afraid of not giving the convict the food, and was also afraid of telling Joe about what he had stole. ||
 * 4. “I had sadly broken sleep when I got to bed, through thinking of the strange man taking aim at me with his invisible gun...” || Pg 77/2 || (C) I have had many “men with invisible guns” in my conscience, about small rules that I have broken, or bad things that I have done. It feels like someone is just sitting there with a gun aimed at you, just waiting for your secret to be exposed. (P) I think this dream could also be a foreshadow to a similar incident later is Pip’s life, when the file is discovered and “the gun is fired”. ||
 * 5. “...and led me to believe we were going fast because her thoughts went fast.” || Pg 83/11 || (C) I can relate to this quote (and situation) so much because my thoughts often travel faster than mouth and my body. Because of this, I have a tendency to talk very fast, and act on impulses that may not always be correct. ||
 * 6. “So imperfect was this realization of the first of my great expectations that I looked in dismay at Mr. Wemmick.” || Pg 171/2 || R) This quote describes an overall theme of life that we often have very high expectations of a person or event, and they often turn out to be much less than what we imagine. (P) I think this will be a reoccurring theme in Pip’s life, as he as very high expectations to learn more and become a higher member of society. ||
 * 7. “And may I state at once that he was always so zealous and honourable in fulfilling his compact with me that made me zealous and honourable in fulfilling mine with him.” || Pg 196/2 || (E) Using this relationship between Pip and Mr. Pocket, Dickens illustrates a common theme in the world: respect someone else and they will respect you. If you are polite and kind to people, this will make them want to treat you the same way. (C) I once heard someone make the comment ‘I won’t respect anyone who doesn’t respect me.’ Based on this quote (and my own beliefs), this is not the rights attitude to have in life. You must be willing to make an effort to show politeness to everyone first, and hope they do the same back to you. ||
 * 8. “No need to take a file from his pocket and show it to me.” || Pg 317/5 || (CL) My prediction as the file and the “invisible gun” resurfacing later in the text appears to be correct. Pip has just discovered that the stranger in his apartment is the old convict that he gave food and money to earlier in the story. (E) I think Dickens is using this allusion (along with several others in the paragraph) to create a flashback to the events in Pip’s life that occurred during his younger years. This provides the reader with a chance to recall those events, and make predictions on what Pip is alluding to before he directly refers to the stranger as the convict. ||
 * 9. “By and by, I aroused myself and went to the play.” || Pg 385/1 || (Q) This is the second time that Pip describes a play that he went to in the book (the first being when Pip went to see his friend Mr. Wopsle in Little Britain). Is there a reason for him doing this? Do the subject of these two plays have themes that somehow relate to Pip and his life? ||
 * 10. “You gave it to yourself; you gained it for yourself. I could have done you no harm, if you had done yourself none.” || Pg 428/9 || (E) Dickens uses this statement about giving someone a bad name to show that, ultimately, you are responsible for your own actions, and no one can have a harmful lasting impact on your life unless you let them. Pip is saying to Orlick that he did not give him bad name, and that Orlick is the only person who could have done that to himself. (C) This reminds me of this quote: “no one can make you feel inferior without your consent”. In the same way, no can give you a bad reputation unless you let them. ||
 * 1. “I had not suspected in advance that her comfortable face would pull me up, and I somehow measured the importance of what I had seen by my thus finding myself hesitate to mention it.” || Pg 17/2 || (C) I can relate to this because I often don’t to tell people things (specifically my parents) that seem important in a bad way. The worse the subject or story is, the more I procrastinate and refuse to mention it. (E) The author uses this statement to show the reader just how important the event of seeing the ghost is, and how much the governess refuses to talk about it. ||
 * 2. “But there’s only one I take space to mention. I wondered why she should be scared.” || Pg 21/1 || (P) I think the last line of this quote (wondering why Mrs. Grose should be scared) alludes to a much deeper story and meaning than the governess firsts realizes. By seeing Mrs. Grose so scared, she begins to understand that seeing this ghost is a big deal, and I predict that this ghost sighting will continue to happen throughout the rest of the book. ||
 * 3. “What was settled between us, accordingly, that night, was that we thought we might bear things together...” || Pg 24/11 || (R) This sentence can be applied to all difficult circumstances in every person’s life, and mentions the theme of friendship. The author is acknowledging the common belief that having someone to lean on and share the hard times with makes things easier, and that is exactly what Mrs. Grose and the governess are trying to do with the ghost sightings. ||
 * 4. “She looked intently grave...I found myself arraigned and explaining. || Pg 41/1 || (C) When someone accuses me/catches me doing something that they think is wrong (even though the situation is not what it seems like), I always find myself quickly explaining and making excuses for what I was doing, even though I have no reason to feel guilty because I did nothing wrong. This is the same way the governess acts when Flora accuses her of ‘being naughty’, even though Flora is actually the person that was disobeying. ||
 * 5. “The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance, all strewn with crumpled playbills.” || Pg 50/2 || (E) The author uses this analogy to give a visual picture of what Bly looks like in the winter (for people who may not have experience this type of weather before) by comparing it to a theater after a play. (Q) Is the author trying to to say that the events that are happening at Bly (the ghost sightings) are just scenes in a play, and not real life? ||
 * 6. “I might easily put an end to my predicament by getting away all together...could blame me if I should just drive desperately off.” || Pg 57/1 || (R) A person’s natural reaction when things get too hard to handle is to leave and abandoned the situation entirely. The author shows here that this is also the governess’s idea to escape the ghost sightings and other issues that are going on at Bly. ||
 * 7. “...and asked if I shouldn’t like him, for a half an hour, to play with me. David playing to Saul could never have shown a finer sense of the occasion. || Pg 65/2 || (Q) Is the sentence about David and Saul a reference to the Bible? The author could be using this bible story (David and Saul hated each other because David was king?) to show what a big step it was for Miles to want to play with the governess. ||
 * 8. “‘I’ll tell you if you tell me---’ I heard myself say, then heard the tremor in which it broke. ‘Well, what?’ Mrs Grose’s suspense blazed at me, but it was too late now, and I brought the thing out handsomely. ’Where, my pet, is Miss Jessel’?” || Pg 69/5-7 || (C) This theme of hesitating to mention important things (shown when the governess is trying to tell Mrs. Grose about spotting the ghost) re-occurs here. Mrs. Grose does not want to mention the ghost of Miss Jessel to Flora, but the governess does to see her reaction. ||
 * 9. “‘I say, my dear, is she really very awfully ill?’...’I see, I see’.” || Pg 79/2-8 || (P) Even though the governess is trying to eliminate any suspicion from the disappearance of his sister, it is obvious the Miles is questioning what happened to her and why she had to leave so suddenly. I predict that this suspicion will ultimately result in Miles getting the worried about his sister and trying to ‘save’ her, or putting himself in danger. ||
 * 10. “But, horrible as it was, his lies made up my truth.” || Pg 82/9 || (R) Every lie that someone tells provide someone else with a little bit of truth about what that person is lying about. (E) The author is trying to say that we can use other people’s lies to figure out the truth about who they really are, and out lies can tell others about our true character. Lies can hurt other people, but they also have the power to expose the truth about the kind of person that you are. ||