Day: May 15, 2016

Chapters 36-37

Pips 21st birthday finally comes he is excited and certain that his becoming an adult he will be told the identity of his benefactor. But jaggers refuses to tell him the identity and he informs him that he will be allowed 500 pounds a year. Pip invites jaggers to come to his birthday dinner, but all he does is depress the environment.

Once pip is given his income he helps Herbert into his merchant business. Wemmick advises pip not to lend his friends money as the can make a habit of coming to him when they are in need of money. But later on he agrees to help pip with Herbert’s business which pip asked wemmicks advice on.
Everything is arranged anonymously so that Herbert like pip does not know the identity of his benefactor.

Chapters 20-26

Jaggers takes pip to london where he likes and dislikes london simultaneously.While he is there he meets jaggers clerk wemmick.

Wemmick inteoduces pip to herbert pocket who he spends the night with. Pip likes herbert but ge realised yhat he is the same pale young gentleman he fought with at satis house.

Pip asks herbert to help him to become a gentle man herbert instantly points out pips poor table manners. He gives pip the nickname handel and tells him about miss havisham. He tells him about her fiance which was supposed to marry ger but never turned up and he sent a letter at 20 minutes to 9 which is when she stopped all pf ger clocks. She later adopted Estella.

The next day pip visits the royal exchange before going to mathew pockets house to be tutored.
Pip concentrates on his table manners and he watches the pockets chaotic lives.

Pip returns to jaggers house where he arranges to stay in the same room as herbert. There pip befriends the lively wemmick who he begins to like who then invites him over for dinner. Pip sees jaggers in the courtroom who scares and dominates the room and even the judge seems intimidated by him.

Pip then continues to know his fellow students and the pockets pip has visited both jaggers and wemmicks houses and where wemmick seems depressed and angry at work at home he seems happy and active.

By contrast jaggers house is gloomy and depressing. Pip and drummle go to visit jaggers at his house for dinner where the both argue over a loan drummle took from star top. Jaggers tells pip to stay away from drummle when though he himself likes him.