Blog #2 Great Expectations

Question #1:

Pips visits to Ms. Havisham's has created all of Pip's ambitions and expectations for himself. It wasn't till Pip traveled to Ms. Havisham's that he realized his potential. " That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me.(72)"After Estella made fun of how he was so common and he wasn't special in any way he realized she was right and he wanted to change he was going to study harder and be more polite after the comments that Estella made. "My hands were coarse, my boots were thick; that i had fallen into a despicable habit of calling knaves jacks; that i was much more ignorant that i had considered myself before, and generally that i was in a low-lived bad way.(65)" He just realizes that he doesn't have anything special about him and he sees this through Estella because she is uncommon and has unique traits about her. "There had been a beautiful young lady at miss Havisham's who was dreadfully proud, and that she had said i was common, and that i knew i was common and that i wished i was not common.(70)" He has never wished to change himself before he traveled to Miss Havisham's but once he doesn't she convinces him there is nothing special at all about him. After he traveled there he started studying harder and he also helped Joe so he could be more presentable. He then had more aspirations to do more in life then be a blacksmith but he didn't know how he was going to succeed. Pip wants to become a gentleman, someone that Estella would look up to, but it isn't till he meets her and she treats him like that along with Miss Havisham that he realizes what he truly wants.