While viewing the movie clip, keep in mind: Who is Pip's benefactor? How does Pip react to this and why?

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1 November 17, 2015 While viewing the movie clip, keep in mind: Who is Pip's benefactor? great expectations 1:09 1:15 How does Pip react to this and why? 1

2 Period 2 Pip gets a midnight caller 1. Who is this visitor? 2. What does the visitor reveal he has done for Pip? How does Pip react to this? 3. Pip thinks, Miss Havisham s intentions toward me, all a mere dream; Estella not designed for me; I only suffered in Satis House as a convenience, a sting for the greedy relations, a model with a mechanical heart to practice on when no other practice was at hand. But sharpest and deepest pain of all it was for the convict, guilty of I knew not what crimes, that I had deserted Joe (775). What realization does Pip have? 1:17 5. Mr. Jaggers asks Pip to look out his window. What will happen to Abel Magwitch if he is caught in London? 6. Magwitch tells Pip and Herbert that his entire life he has been in and out of jail since he was a young boy. He describes himself, Tramping, begging, thieving, working sometimes when I could though that warn y as often as you may think, till you put the question whether you would ha been over ready to give me work yourselves a bit of a poacher, a bit of a laborer, a bit of a wagoner, a bit of a haymaker, a bit of a hawker, a bit of most things that don t pay and lead to trouble, I got to be a man (784). Using key words (text based evidence) from this description, what type of life did Magwtich have? 2

3 7. Magwitch tells Pip about a man Compeyson, the man Pip saw him fighting in the marshes so many years ago. Magwitch s description of Compeyson (784) In your own words Period 2 Set up fur a gentleman Had learning A smooth one to talk and was a dab at the ways of gentlefolks. He was good looking too Compeyson took me on to be his man and pardner Compeyson s business was the swindling, handwriting forging, stolen bank note passing, and suchlike No more heart than a iron file, he was as cold as death, and he had the head of the Devil 8. Magwitch tells Pip that Compeyson and a man named Arthur had made a lot of money off a bad thing with a rich lady. 9. Magwitch and Compeyson were put on trial for their crimes. Compeyson winds up getting off easier than Magwitch does. Why do you think this happens? Compare the two men s backgrounds. 10. Pip discovers that Arthur was Miss Havisham s stepbrother and Compeyson was the man who was to marry her. 11. What do you predict would happen if Compeyson were to discover that Magwitch had escaped and was in London? 12. Pip decides he must accompany Magwitch back to New South Wales so that he is not hung. 3

4 Period 4 Pip gets a midnight caller 1. Who is this visitor? 2. What does the visitor reveal he has done for Pip? How does Pip react to this? 3. Pip thinks, Miss Havisham s intentions toward me, all a mere dream; Estella not designed for me; I only suffered in Satis House as a convenience, a sting for the greedy relations, a model with a mechanical heart to practice on when no other practice was at hand. But sharpest and deepest pain of all it was for the convict, guilty of I knew not what crimes, that I had deserted Joe (775). What realization does Pip have? 5. Mr. Jaggers asks Pip to look out his window. What will happen to Abel Magwitch if he is caught in London? 6. Magwitch tells Pip and Herbert that his entire life he has been in and out of jail since he was a young boy. He describes himself, Tramping, begging, thieving, working sometimes when I could though that warn y as often as you may think, till you put the question whether you would ha been over ready to give me work yourselves a bit of a poacher, a bit of a laborer, a bit of a wagoner, a bit of a haymaker, a bit of a hawker, a bit of most things that don t pay and lead to trouble, I got to be a man (784). Using key words (text based evidence) from this description, what type of life did Magwtich have? 4

5 7. Magwitch tells Pip about a man Compeyson, the man Pip saw him fighting in the marshes so many years ago. Period 4 Magwitch s description of Compeyson (784) In your own words Set up fur a gentleman Had learning A smooth one to talk and was a dab at the ways of gentlefolks. He was good looking too Compeyson took me on to be his man and pardner Compeyson s business was the swindling, handwriting forging, stolen bank note passing, and suchlike No more heart than a iron file, he was as cold as death, and he had the head of the Devil 8. Magwitch tells Pip that Compeyson and a man named Arthur had made a lot of money off a bad thing with a rich lady. 9. Magwitch and Compeyson were put on trial for their crimes. Compeyson winds up getting off easier than Magwitch does. Why do you think this happens? Compare the two men s backgrounds. 10. Pip discovers that Arthur was Miss Havisham s stepbrother and Compeyson was the man who was to marry her. 11. What do you predict would happen if Compeyson were to discover that Magwitch had escaped and was in London? 12. Pip decides he must accompany Magwitch back to New South Wales so that he is not hung. 5

6 Period 9 Pip gets a midnight caller 1. Who is this visitor? 2. What does the visitor reveal he has done for Pip? How does Pip react to this? 3. Pip thinks, Miss Havisham s intentions toward me, all a mere dream; Estella not designed for me; I only suffered in Satis House as a convenience, a sting for the greedy relations, a model with a mechanical heart to practice on when no other practice was at hand. But sharpest and deepest pain of all it was for the convict, guilty of I knew not what crimes, that I had deserted Joe (775). What realization does Pip have? 5. Mr. Jaggers asks Pip to look out his window. What will happen to Abel Magwitch if he is caught in London? 6. Magwitch tells Pip and Herbert that his entire life he has been in and out of jail since he was a young boy. He describes himself, Tramping, begging, thieving, working sometimes when I could though that warn y as often as you may think, till you put the question whether you would ha been over ready to give me work yourselves a bit of a poacher, a bit of a laborer, a bit of a wagoner, a bit of a haymaker, a bit of a hawker, a bit of most things that don t pay and lead to trouble, I got to be a man (784). Using key words (text based evidence) from this description, what type of life did Magwtich have? 6

7 7. Magwitch tells Pip about a man Compeyson, the man Pip saw him fighting in the marshes so many years ago. Magwitch s description of Compeyson (784) In your own words Period 9 Set up fur a gentleman Had learning A smooth one to talk and was a dab at the ways of gentlefolks. He was good looking too Compeyson took me on to be his man and pardner Compeyson s business was the swindling, handwriting forging, stolen bank note passing, and suchlike No more heart than a iron file, he was as cold as death, and he had the head of the Devil 8. Magwitch tells Pip that Compeyson and a man named Arthur had made a lot of money off a bad thing with a rich lady. 9. Magwitch and Compeyson were put on trial for their crimes. Compeyson winds up getting off easier than Magwitch does. Why do you think this happens? Compare the two men s backgrounds. 10. Pip discovers that Arthur was Miss Havisham s stepbrother and Compeyson was the man who was to marry her. 11. What do you predict would happen if Compeyson were to discover that Magwitch had escaped and was in London? 12. Pip decides he must accompany Magwitch back to New South Wales so that he is not hung. 7