A Turning Point for Pip

In the last line of chapter nine, I didnt think of it as Pip speaking to me but, Charles Dickens. I felt as if Dickens was sending a message to his readers through his book. The message that whether circumstances are good or bad, they confine you in and don't allow you to grow. I think the day Pip encountered Mrs. Havisham dramatically change Pip's life. It was the turning point in which he realized that society means something. It gives you the authority, that he wants. The authority he never could take advantage of before.


In the beginning of the novel, the character, Pip is juvenile, and naive about the surroundings of the word. He's begin raised in a household with out much. Pip didn't know about what went on just miles outside his own town, he was stuck in his own world. A world which is far better then the one he was recently introduced to. The presence of High society to Pip has evolved his own way of thinking. Its given him false hopes of things he never would have never thought twice about. Pip, in my opinion has lost himself. And I'm assuming that it will be very hard for him to find that Pip, later in life. The worst part of it all is "playing" with Mrs. Havisham was forced on him. 


As Pip ages through the book you see how unhappy Pip now is. While he is working as an apprentice to Joe, his attitude has taken an 180 degree turn. The world that Pip has be acquainted with has a many negative effects of Pip, as well as those around him. Joe is being affected by this, because his apprentice doesn't want to be there, therefore not putting in all the necessary effort. Overall, I feel Pip's attitude is plain bitter. 


When I look back on it, the time when everything changed was the period during Barrack Obama's campaign and election. Its the time when I really began looking into US history, discussing issues that had meaning to me, and issues for people who had no voice. Also, it provoked many ideas about the future of the United States and my own personal goals that I have for myself. As I finished up the chapter it occurred to me while reading this that now Pip is confined to his low social status. The title of the book, finally makes sense. Pip's great expectations for himself in society. Its becoming so clear now!!!