Emma+Arnold


 * GREAT EXPECTATIONS**
 * Passage ||  Page #/ Para.  ||  Response To Text  ||
 * “’There was a conwict off last night,’ said Joe, aloud, ‘after sunset-gun. And they fired a warning of him. And now it appears they’re firing a warning of another.’” || 11/8 || (Q) These shots are fired to report a prisoner escaping? Was the first warning shot fired before or after Pip talked to the man that he is bringing the items too? ||
 * “And yet this man was dressed in coarse grey, too, and had a great iron on his leg, and was lame, and hoarse, and cold and everything that the other man was…” || 16/3 || (P) Both of these men must be prisoners! If there have been two warning shots reporting escaping convicts, and there are two men dressed the same way, these two must be the prisoners! (C) The author is very descriptive, showing that Pip REALLY focused on what the man was wearing, just like everyone else in the world does. ||
 * “’Here are both men!’ panted the sergeant, struggling at the bottom of a ditch. ‘Surrender, you two! …’” || 34/4 || (CL) The two men that Pip had seen were the prisoners! And now they have been caught! (Q) I wonder if the man will try and get back at Pip? ||
 * “She gave me a triumphant glance in passing me, as if she were rejoiced that my hands were so coarse and my boots were so think, and she opened the gate, and stood holding it.” || 63/1 || (R/C) In the world, everyone wants to feel better than someone, like Estella feels in this passage.

This passage uses a tone that connects with self-pity. Maybe this is a foreshadowing to Pip trying to better himself later in the novel? ||
 * “’Well, Pip,’ said Joe, ‘be it so, or be it son’t, you must be an common scholar afore you can be a oncommon on, I should hope! ’” || 69/6 || THEME (E)—Reaches into the thought that you have to bad at something before you can ever be bad it.

Joe seems to be more of a father figure to Pip than a friend, or just his sister’s husband. ||
 * “There was a clock in the outer wall of this house. Like the clock in Miss Havisham’s room, and like Miss Havisham’s watch, it had stopped at twenty minutes to nine.” || 78/2 || In this passage the clock and watch that are held within Miss Havisham’s room are brought up again, as they had been before. This must mean that they will be important later on in the novel.

(P) The time of “twenty minutes to nine” will later be important, and hopefully explained, because it has been repeated, and because that is when all of Miss Havisham’s clocks have stopped. Maybe she is mourning something that happened “twenty minutes to nine”? And that’s why everything is so dark and goes back in the exact same place that it was before? ||
 * “… and led me to believe that we were going fast because her thoughts went fast.” || 83/10 || (C) Many times I also feel as though my thoughts are moving faster than what I can keep up with, many times when I am excited or angry, which (in either situation) can result in making decisions before I really have a chance to think about them. ||
 * “’And the communication I have got to make is that he has great expectations.’” || 138/12 || (CL) The title of the book is used in this sentence describing Pip! Pip is the one that has great expectations. He wishes to be a gentleman that has a high education and doesn’t work as an apprentice in the forge. He wishes to get out of his common life and into a more “oncommon” one. ||
 * “… feeling it very sorrowful and strange that this first night of my bright fortunes should be the loneliest I had ever known.” || 146/3 || THEME— (E) Here Pip is very much demonstrating the thought that “even though you may have gotten everything you wanted, you still may not be happy with your life”, as well as “you can’t buy happiness”. Pip has now received the chance to get everything that he wants, but he still is upset. Dickens is trying to make the reader understand this, (P) he will continue to refer back to this theme throughout the book. ||
 * “… and she was too haughty and too much in love to be advised by anyone.” || 179/2 || (C) Here, Dickens is talking about the way that Miss Havisham loved a man so deeply that she would not listen to what anyone else had to say about him or what she was doing. I feel that at some point in our lives, everyone has felt so in love with someone or something that we will not listen to what anyone else has to say about it, because we don’t see flaws the way that other people do. ||
 * Wuthering Heights:**
 * ** PASSAGE ** ||  ** PAGE #/PARA # **  ||  ** RESPONSE **  ||
 * “I felt interested in a man who seemed more exaggeratedly reserved than myself.” || 9/6  || (C) Many times in life, I have felt the same way. I always want to get to know the “shy” people, or the people that everyone else thinks are different.

(P) I feel that by the end of the novel, Mr. Lockwood and Mr. Heathcliff will be very good friends. ||
 * “’Come in! come in!’ he sobbed. ‘Cathy, do come. Oh do-once more! Oh! My heart’s darling! Hear me this time, Catherine, at last!’” || 33/10  || (Q) Where did Cathy go? Has she passed away? Heathcliff didn’t originally believe the ghost theory (or so he says), but does he believe Cathy is a ghost now? ||
 * “That made her cry, at first; and then, being repulsed continually hardened her, and she laughed if I told her to say she was sorry for her faults and beg o be forgiven.” || 46/6  || (R) In the world, and maybe in your everyday life, you hear about how certain situations make people hard. They lose their emotions, the way Cathy does here, after repeatedly hearing that she cannot be loved and that she is worse than her brother. ||
 * “He drove them from their company to the servants, deprived him of the instructions of the curate, and that he should labour out of doors, compelling him to do as hard as any other lad on the farm.” || 49/3  || This sounds very similar to Cinderella, with a wicked stepmother (in this case it is his “brother”) that sends him outside to do labor and work rather than be nice to him like their father was. ||
 * “’I wish I had light hair and a fair skin, and was dressed and behaved as well, and had a chance of being as rich as he will be!’” || 59/10  || (E) Here, Bronte is telling about how people are always trying to change for other people, the way that Heathcliff was wishing to change so that Catherine would like him the way that she used to. Not ignore and laugh at him the way that she did when she first saw him when he came back. ||
 * “… I was the quarrel had effected a closer intimacy—had broken the outwards of a youthful friendship, and enabled them to forsake the disguise of friendship and confess themselves as lovers.” || 75/1  || (Q) So Linton and Catherine had professed their love to each other? Or was it someone else? I thought Heathcliff and Catherine were in love? Or at least that Heathcliff loved Catherine? ||
 * “’… so he shall never know I love him; and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.’” || 82/8  || (CL) I was right! Catherine is in love with Heathcliff, even more so than she is with Linton! She is saying that Heathcliff knows her better than anyone, because they are the same. Catherine is also marrying Linton to help aid Heathcliff. ||
 * “’What is it to you?’ he growled. ‘I have a right to kiss her if she chooses, and you have no right to object. I’m not your husband; you needn’t be jealous of me!’” || 111/10  || I completely agree with how Heathcliff is responding to this situation. Catherine believes that she has control over Heathcliff, but she chose not to marry him, when she had loved him. Because they are not together, Catherine has zero right to tell Heathcliff what he can and cannot do, especially with other women. ||
 * “’I shall not pity you, not I. You have killed me—and thriven on it, I think.’” || 155/6  || Catherine is killing herself! She is the one that has been starving herself and not sleeping. She just wants to “get back at” Heathcliff and Linton, but they are not the ones who have done wrong, Catherine is. If she would have picked Heathcliff originally, Catherine would not be suffering the way that she is. ||
 * “You said I killed you—haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murders.” || 164/8  || (R) This is why Heathcliff had wanted Catherine to haunt him earlier, she is dead and he wishes to see her again. ||