1) Orlick, or the stranger from the pub? What say ye? Weigh in with your opinion and evidence!!!
2) As bad as she was, Mrs. Joe certainly didn't deserve this fate. Why is she being so nice to Orlick now?
3) Take a look at the description of the police and investigators (137). How does Dickens portray them? Any idea what literary technique is at work here?
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ReplyDelete1) The reader soon finds out that Orlick was Mrs. Joe's attacker. This is because when Pip's sister is unable to talk, she tries to reveal the attacker by drawing the letter "T" on her slate, which Pip finds out that it represents a hammer. Once Pip and Buddy figure this out, they easily come to the conclusion that it was Orlick since he is always working with hammers and carries them around. An example of this is when Pip explains, "At length it had come into my head that sign looked like a hammer,"(Dickens 123) and "Orlick, without a doubt! She had lost his name, and could only signify him by his hammer."
ReplyDelete2) Since Orlick is found out to be the attacker, Pip expects is sister to have the opposite affect in which she displayed. Mrs. Joe is very eager to please Orlick so they can be on good terms and she demonstrated this by acting on his every demand while offering beverages. An expamle from text, "I confess that I expected to see my sister denounce him, and that I was disappointed by the different result. She manifested the greatest anxiety to be on good terms with him." (Dickens,124)
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ReplyDeleteBiddy* my phone automatically autocorrected it to "Buddy."
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