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Great Expectations Chapters 20-25 - Winter Break Assignment
1a. Provide a THREE SENTENCE summary of Chapter 20
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1b. Read the following and answer the question in 2-3 complete sentences:
Mr. Jaggers's room was lighted by a skylight only, and was a most dismal place; the skylight, eccentrically pitched
like a broken head, and the distorted adjoining houses looking as if they had twisted themselves to peep down at me
through it (Dickens 154).
What are two literary elements Dickens uses in this line to help create an image of Jaggers’ room and why are
these devices effective?
2a. Provide a THREE SENTENCE summary of Chapter 21
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2b. Read the following and answer the question in 2-3 complete sentences:
A frowzy mourning of soot and smoke attired this forlorn creation of Barnard, and it had strewn ashes on its head,
and was undergoing penance and humiliation as a mere dust-hole. Thus far my sense of sight; while dry rot and wet
rot and all the silent rots that rot in neglected roof and cellar,—rot of rat and mouse and bug and coaching-stables
near at hand besides—addressed themselves faintly to my sense of smell, and moaned, "Try Barnard's Mixture"
(Dickens 163).
What specific words and phrases does Dickens use to create a sense of a place that is old and forgotten?
3a. Provide a THREE SENTENCE summary of Chapter 22
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3b. Read the following and answer the questions in 2-3 complete sentences:
What is the significance of Herbert Pocket, Jr. wanting to call Pip “Handel,” rather than Phillip? (Dickens 167). How
does this connect with Pip’s new life as a gentleman? Why does Pip agree to it?
When Pip says, “… I saw that Mr. and Mrs. Pocket’s children were not growing up or being brought up, but
tumbling up,” (173) what does he mean? How can you contrast their family with his childhood?
4a. Provide a THREE SENTENCE summary of Chapter 25
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4b. Read the following and answer the questions in 2-3 complete sentences:
"Massive?" repeated Wemmick. "I think so. And his watch is a gold repeater, and worth a hundred pound if it's
worth a penny. Mr. Pip, there are about seven hundred thieves in this town who know all about that watch; there's
not a man, a woman, or a child, among them, who wouldn't identify the smallest link in that chain, and drop it as if
it was red hot, if inveigled into touching it” (Dickens 193-194).
How is Jaggers characterized here?
5a. Provide a THREE SENTENCE summary of Chapter 26
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5b. Read the following and answer the questions in 2-3 complete sentences:
"If you talk of strength," said Mr. Jaggers, "I'll show you a wrist. Molly, let them see your wrist."
Her entrapped hand was on the table, but she had already put her other hand behind her waist. "Master," she said,
in a low voice, with her eyes attentively and entreatingly fixed upon him. "Don't."
"I'll show you a wrist," repeated Mr. Jaggers, with an immovable determination to show it. "Molly, let them see your
wrist."
"Master," she again murmured. "Please!"
"Molly," said Mr. Jaggers, not looking at her, but obstinately looking at the opposite side of the room, "let them see
both your wrists. Show them. Come!"
He took his hand from hers, and turned that wrist up on the table. She brought her other hand from behind her, and
held the two out side by side. The last wrist was much disfigured,—deeply scarred and scarred across and across.
When she held her hands out she took her eyes from Mr. Jaggers, and turned them watchfully on every one of the
rest of us in succession (Dickens 200).
Refer back to Chapter 8 and a conversation that Pip has with Miss Havisham. How is that conversation similar to
this one? What can we learn about POWER from these two conversations?