Month: November 2015

Chapter 5-6 summary

I chapter 5, Pip, Joe and Mr Pumblechook go with the soldiers to find the convicts that are running loose. They find the convicts in a ditch. The convict that Pip helped, saves Pip from being caught by saying that he stole the pie. They arrested the convicts and Pip, Joe and Mr Pumblechook watch the soldiers leave with the convicts on a boat and then head back home.

In chapter 6,

Great Expectations Chapter 3-4 Summary

Pip takes a pie to the convict and on the way finds the ‘young man’. He tells the man that he saw him but he looked surprised. After the man wanted to see the young man and asked Pip for the file and he started filing his leg irons. Pip went home then he went to church with Joe as his sister attends vicariously. Pip is back home and his uncles went to stay to eat which is when Pip would’ve been caught since he diluted the Brandy  to make it the same volume as normal.

Summary and Comparison Skills

Both The Telegraph and The  Guardian wrote an article based on an incident that happened on a bus in Brighton Road, Coulsdon. I would say that they are so similar they might have worked with each other or one copied off another. The only differences that I would mention is the specific data in different places for example the offenders age and how The guardian put ‘sgt’ and the telegragh ‘seargent’. However they are basicly the same in terms in where they place their information    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11983387/Shocking-moment-87-year-old-woman-punched-in-face-by-teenage-girl-on-bus-in-Croydon.html                                                  http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/nov/09/teenage-girl-punches-elderly-woman-on-croydon-bus

Great Expectation Chapter 1 Short Summary

In Great Expectations there is a character called Pip in a grave yard by his dead parents and siblings. he is then seen by a man and the man threatens him to bring food and some tools. He goes back home to his sister who bought him up ‘by hand’. There is then thought that her husband was married ‘by hand’. Pip is then accused in bolting his food when he was saving it for the man. Then there is news about a convict and Pip asks many questions about it and his sister gets furious.