Mr. Sinkinson, p.
English 9
Great Expectations
Journal Guide
Chapters 20-26
As you are keeping your journal for chapters 20-26, make sure that you pay attention to, analyze,
and/or understand the points listed below.
Chapter 20
Chapter 23

Pip’s initial impression of London
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
Mr. Jaggers’ office

Mrs. Pocket’s family

Mr. Jaggers’ clerk

the servants

the impression of Jaggers around London

Startop

“Have you paid Wemmick?”

Drummle

“You will find your credit good.”
Life in the Pocket household
Chapter 24
Chapter 21

Pip’s intended career

Wemmick

“it’s not personal; it’s professional”

Barnard’s Inn

“get hold of portable property”

first impression

general condition
Chapter 25

Pip’s lodging in particular

Drummle

Startop

Camilla and Georgiana
Chapter 22

the Aged Parent

Herbert Pocket

Walworth

his recollection of the fight

Wemmick: home vs. work

his reason for being at Satis House

his impression of Estella
Chapter 26

the delivery of his etiquette tips
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
his perception of the source of Pip’s
expectations

the house

Drummle

his career aspirations

the housekeeper

his family

Mr. Pocket, Jr.

Pip’s new nickname

Miss Havisham’s story
Dinner at Jaggers’ house
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her wrists/arm
Mr. Sinkinson, p.
English 9
Great Expectations
Journal Guide
Chapters 27-33
As you are keeping your journal for chapters 27-33, make sure that you pay attention to, analyze,
and/or understand the points listed below.
Chapter 27

the letter from Joe
o
“not with pleasure”
Chapter 30
 Orlick’s dismissal

Trabb’s boy

Joe’s hat

Herbert’s opinion about Pip and Estella

The Avenger

Clara

“Sir”

Pumblechook

the message from Miss Havisham

“I’m wrong in these clothes”

“I must stay at Joe’s”

the convicts on the coach
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
does this chapter advance the plot?

what purpose might this chapter serve?
Chapter 32
Chapter 28
o
Chapter 31

“this taint of prison and crime”

Wemmick, Jaggers, and Newgate
their story
the article in the paper
Chapter 29
Chapter 33

“as if it must be done”

“You ridiculous boy, will you never take
warning.”

Estella

Orlick

Estella’s tone

“unfit company”

“She cared to attract me”

“I have no heart”
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“Love her”

“What real love is”
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whist

“they soon had dried”
Mr. Sinkinson, p.
English 9
Great Expectations
Journal Guide
Chapters 34-39
As you are keeping your journal for chapters 34-39, make sure that you pay attention to, analyze,
and/or understand the points listed below.
Chapter 34
Chapter 37

“I should have been happier and better if I
had never seen Miss Havisham”

Miss Skiffins


“We spent as much money as we could,
and got as little for it as people could make
up their minds to give us”
“There are Newgate cobwebs about, and it
brushes them away”

“secret articles were signed of which
Herbert was the subject”

“reckoning” their debts

the letter from Trabb and Co.
Chapter 38

“I suffered every kind and degree of torture
that Estella could cause me”
Chapter 35

Pip’s feelings about Mrs. Joe

“Pip, will you never take warning?”

“Pocket-handkerchiefs out!”

“How does she use you, Pip?”

“We dined in the best parlour”

“Are you tired of me?”

“I had done rather a great thing by making
the request”

“I am what you have made me”


“I must be taken as I have been made”
“I think you might have written to me about
these sad matters”


“Do you want me then to deceive and
entrap you?”
“Pardon”

Orlick
Chapter 39

“I am not going to leave poor Joe alone”

“He looked about him with the strangest air”

Biddy was quite right”

“You acted noble, my boy”

“I cannot wish to renew that chance
intercourse with you of long ago, under
these different circumstances”

“All the truth of my position came flashing
on me”

“Who else should there be?”

“Miss Havisham’s intentions towards me, all
a mere dream”
Chapter 36

“Herbert and I went from bad to worse”

“At the rate of, sir”

Pip’s “per annum”

“When that person discloses, it will not be
necessary for me to know anything about it”

“pitch your money into the Thames”

“Walworth is one place, and this office is
another”