Great Expectations: questions about a passage

One thing that I am not to certain about in this weeks reading is when Pip is having dinner at Mr. Jaggers house and Mr. Jaggers brings his house keeper, Molly over to show everyone her wrists. "'I'll show you a wrist. Molly, let them see your wrist.' . . . The last wrist was much disfigured - deeply scarred and scarred across and across." (chpt. 26 pg. 228) I don't really understand what the point in showing everyone her wrist's was, or why Mr. Jaggers is referring her scarred wrists to something of strength.

My Question is: Why would Mr. Jaggers refer to strength as his house keeper, Molly's deeply scarred wrist's, and what is the significance in the story?

Great Expectations

In the book Great Expections, the quote "Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day." Pip is referring to the lie that he had just told to his uncle, his sister, and to Joe. He told the lie to protect Miss. Havisham, and Estella from the humiliation and judgement of society. The day altered Pip by the lies that he had told, and the guilt that he would have to live with. Pip has developed into a more mature character, he is starting to understand social classes in his community, where he falls in those classes, and understanding that he doesn't want to be a poorer class, he want's to be something that Estella would want "worthy" of her. This day is memorable to Pip, because he is becoming more self aware, and has developed him as a character by showing that he is growing up and becoming more mature in the way that he thinks.

The event that began the sculpture of who i would become was meeting a little girl named Tylee. Tylee was a little girl that had cancer that i am proud to say had worked her way into the hearts of my family and I. The day that Tylee died was the day that I actually realized that life and death go hand in hand. No matter how young or old you are, no one is invincible. I think that the entire experience made me mature a great deal, I think that being able to understand that accidents happen and people die turned me into a more careful person. Someone who is cautious but can still have fun. I believe that was the first link in the chain that has created who i am today.

The Importance Of Being Earnest: Group essay

The three main points that i'm going to be talking about in my body paragraph are specific points in the book that show how strong relationships can make it through tough problems together. My three concrete details are 1. When Gwendolen finds out that Jack had been lying to her all along about his name being Earnest. 2. When Cecily and Gwendolen are "fighting" over who is marrying Earnest. 3. When lady Bracknell is saying that Jack and Gwendolen will never be married. The commentary that I have chosen is helping to make it obvious that only a strong relationship could make it through all the lies and confusion that the couple (Jack and Gwendolen) have had to go through. My commentary helps to show that not all people would be able to forgive someone for lying to them about what their name is, because they wouldn't know if anything else they had said was true or not. Which proves that only a truly concrete relationship could pull through a lie so large. My commentary also helps to prove the thesis because after hearing that a parent doesn't approve of someones engagement, and at the time the couple needing consent, most people would have given up and tried to find another; Yet Gwendolen and Jack keep trying and find a way to try and get Lady Bracknell to give her consent, which shows the couple overcoming more obstacles.

The Importance of Being Earnest

By doing the research on the victorian era, it helped to enhance my understanding of the time period, which in turn helped and is still helping me to understand the play more than I dwould have had I not had some back round information about the time period. I found out things about the time period from information on the social classes to facts about the period and the things that were occuring during the time.
I learned from doing the research how it was determined what social a class a person would be in. I had learned that you were born into a certain class depending on how much money you had and what social class your parents fell into. Women could move up and down in classes by marriage, and men by becoming more wealthy or becoming friends with people in higher classes. this relates to the play because maraige is something that is greatly satirized but something that is also taken seriously. Especially by Lady Bracknell who is determined her daughter marry into a higher standing social class, and Gwendolen makes fun of it stating that she may marry often and many times. This is both funny and serious because that would mean her husbands had died, and it's serious because who she married meant everything, who she would be, how she would live, if she would live in comfort. There were many other examples of things that I had researched in my victorian research that were also brought into the play; Including the education of the time. I had learned from doing my researh prior to reading the play that to go to school you had to have money. The more money you had the better education you had. If you had alot of money then you could go to a private school or have a tutor. This relates to the play, because Cecily has a tutor or a governess who educated her. Cecily is the ward of Mr. Worthing, who is a wealthy man, but Cecily herself is also very wealthy, because she had alot of money she was able to pay for a tutor to educate her which was one of the best educations that you could get at the time. Both of these are examples that show that what I learned from doing the victorian era research helped me in understanding the book better.

animal farm poem

Animals taking over the farm
to avoid the farmers plan to slaughter.
No one wants to come to harm
when the farmer wants to slaughter

The pigs devise a scheme
to avoid the farmers plan to slaughter.
With one specific theme
when the farmer wants to slaughter.

The animals begin to rebel
with hope for a better life
And the Jone's reighn fell
with promises for a better life

The animals start to rebuild
with hope for a better life
While the pigs get their bellies filled
with promises for a better life?

The pigs break the rules
leadership can cause corruption.
And act like selfish foold,
power can lead to corruption

The animals hopes were shattered,
leadership can cause corruption.
Had it ever really mattered,
power can lead to corrupion

Jashua Kelly

Jashua recited the poem Dulce et Decorum Est, he used body language, tone, attitude and appearence/facial expression to show the meaning and his understanding of the poem. He speaks faster/slower or louder/softer in different parts of the poem to express the feel of whats happening in it. He uses an upset/terrified voice in a part of it where the poem tells about an attack and a stumbling man.
I felt that the poem was about an army unit marching on through a war, and about a man within the unit and the things that he experienced and saw in the war. I felt that the tone of Mr. Kelly used throughout the poem made the poem stand out. He uses a softer afraid tone when he is talking about the man that he saw die, and a rougher louder voice when he describes the ambush or attack. These emphasized things makes the poem, and helps show how much Jashua understood what was happening in the poem "Dulce et Decorum Est".

MOTIF

Reading the book to kill a mocking bird helped me to understand the meaning of motif, because the book had a lot of examples and references to the motif of the mockingbird. In the book Atticus tells his kids that it's a sin to kill a mocking bird, because mocking birds do nothing but share their sweet melodies, never hurting to annoying any one. Through out the book the motif of the mocking bird is displayed through characters, rather than just the obvious bird. For example, Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson were mocking bird characters. They both never hurt any one or did anything to upset anyone else, all they ever did was did what they could to help other people. And so "it is a sin to kill the mocking bird" meaning that it was a sin to lock up Tom Robinson after all he did was help Mayella Ewell with what ever he could. Or that it was wrong to even consider taking Boo to court when he had never hurt a soul, only saved two innocent childrens lives from a bad man.
The Motif of the mocking bird helps to elaborate or built backround for the other themes in the book. The theme of bravery sits hand in hand with the motif, Boo came out of his house after 20+ years of being inside never showing his face, and keeping to himself, so that he could do what he could to save the lives of Atticus's children. Another theme that the motif helped to inspire was the theme of justice vs. injustice. Being when Tom was taken to court and tried for raping Mayella, the people that were in the court all knew that there was no real evidence that Mayella had been raped. The only thing that was there was a black man's word against a white mans, and Tom was convicted guilty and taken away to prison. Tom was the mocking bird, everyone knew that he had done nothing wrong all the evidence proved that he was innocent, and the people killed the mocking bird by stating he was guilty.