Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Great Expectations- Day 1 Reading

1. Post ONE quotation for the reading.
2. Post the one you liked the most.

37 comments:

Unknown said...

"How do you spell Gargery, Joe?"
"I don't spell it at all."

My favorite quote... Coming out soon!

Unknown said...

"I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw a picture of either of them" (668, 9-10)

This quote will be thouroughly explained by Sahil Patel

Unknown said...

"I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw a picture of either of them (668, line 9-10)

This sets up conflict, describes the character and I think is symbolic.

This will be explained more in class.

-tk

Ricky said...

“My convict looked round him for the first time, and saw me . . . I looked at him eagerly when he looked at me, and slightly moved my hands and shook my head. I had been waiting for him to see me, that I might try to assure him of my innocence. It was not at all expressed to me that he even comprehended my intention, for he gave me a look that I did not understand, and it all passed in a moment." (682)

-HS

Unknown said...

"Conscience is a dreadful thing" (672).

Unknown said...

"I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw a picture of either of them."(668)

ChennyBritt said...

One Quote- “Ever the best of friends; ain’t us, Pip? Don’t cry, old chap!”
Favorite Quote- “Drat that boy,” interposed my sister, frowning at me over her work; “what a questioner he is. Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.”
I like this quote because it shows Mrs. Joe’s sour look on life.

Unknown said...

"I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw a picture of either of them."(668, 9-10)

~ap

Anonymous said...

"I ought to tell Joe the whole truth. Yet I did not, and for the reason that I mistrusted that if I did, he would think me worse than I was. The fear of losing Joe's confidence tied up my tongue. In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong."(683)

Unknown said...

“I never saw my father or my mother.”(668)

Derek R said...

"Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.”

"People are put in the Hulks because they murder, and because they rob, and forge and do all sorts of bad; and they always begin by asking questions. Now you get along to bed."

claremorris said...

" She was not a good-looking woman , my sister ; and i had general impression that she must had made Joe Gargery marry her by hand . "

- Clare Morris

Katelyn said...

"I never saw my father or my mother"(668)
~Katelyn

Shayna Linov said...

"You're not a deceiving imp? You brought no one with you?" (674)

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Diwesh Poudyal said...

Pitying his desolation, and watching him as he gradually settled down upon the pie, I made bold to say, " I am glad you enjoy it."(674)

Helen Dawit said...

“It was much on my mind that I ought to tell Joe the whole truth. Yet I did not, and for the reason that I mistrusted that is I did, he would think me worse than I was. The fear of losing Joe’s confidence tied up my tongue. In a word, was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.” (683)

Unknown said...

"After each question he tilted me over a little more, so as to give me a greater sense of helplessness and danger".

Nathan said...

"sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed"

As quoted from Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, and Quoted by and will be dilated on the morrow by Nathan Barr



**bows

Quentin said...

"Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies." (673)

Sarah said...

"I held tight to the leg of the table with both hands and awaited my fate" (677).

Danielle Gervais said...

"I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw a picture of either of them" (668)

Unknown said...

"Consceience is a dreadful thing. The guilty knowledge that I was going to rob Mrs. Joe-I never thought I was going to rob Joy, for I never thought of any of the housekeeping property as his" (672).

"Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies” (673).

Unknown said...

1) "What fat cheeks you ha' got. Darn me if I couldn't eat 'em, and if I hadn't half a mind to't!" (668) This quote really confused me...

2)"Noodle!" (686) Love this quote, it's hilarious!

-Natalia Duranceau

Ellen D said...

"Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies" (673).

~ED

Unknown said...

"conscience is a dreadful thing when it accuses a man or a boy."

hannah said...

“I always treated him as a larger child, and as no more than my equal” (671)

Unknown said...

“Knowing her hard and heavy hand, and to be in the habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon me, I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand” (671).

-Hannah

Luke D said...

"So you're the blacksmith, are you? Then I'm sorry to say, I've eat your pie" (683).

To be explained in great detail tomorrow in class.

Ayumi Yoshida said...

"When I offered to your sister to to keep company, and to be asked in church, at such times as she was willing and ready to come to forge, i said to her,'And bring the poor little child. God bless the poor little child,' I said to your sister, 'There's room for him at the forge!'"(685)

Unknown said...

"Ask no questions, and you will be told no lies" (673)
-SR

Jacob said...

"I supposed that both Joe Gargery and I were brought up by hand."

Unknown said...

"I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong."(683)
-CD

Megan said...

"what a questioner he is. Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies." (763)

haley said...

"Ask no questions

haley said...

"Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies".

-Haley C.

Laura said...

"Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies" (673)