Great Expectations Skits!

Next week we are doing skits from Great Expectations. Here are my top three choices for scenes for skits:

• The first time Pip goes to see Miss Havisham. It is when Pip first gets told that Miss Havisham's heart is broken and his first impression of Estella. It should include Pip telling Miss Havisham what he thinks of Estella. I think this would be good for a skit because it introduces the characters well and gives you an impression on what they are like.
• Pip walking down the street in his village when he goes back to see Miss Havisham and keeps running into Trabb's boy. It is so amusing as well as shows how much Pip has changed since he was last in the country.
• Pip's first visit with the Pocket family. Everyone is so scattered and completely different from what he is used to, along with being his first real encounter with higher raised people. It would be an amusing scene to watch, that's for sure.
  

More Questions

One of the things that confused me about this week's reading was why Pip went to ask Miss Havisham to help Hebert. Pip says "Miss Havisham, if you could spare the money to do my friend Herbert a lasting service in life, but which from the nature of the case must be done without his knowledge, I could show you how" (387). I understand that Pip wants someone to keep helping out Herbert, but why should he have to ask Miss Havisham and not someone else that would be more willing to help him? Miss Havisham obviously has shown no interest in Herbert, so why now?

Question About Chapter 27

In chapter 27 of Great Expectations, Pip talks about the Avenger.

I had got on so fast of late that I had even started a boy in boots- top boots- in bondage and slavery to whom I might be said to pass my days. For, after I had made this monster (out of the refuse of my washerwoman's family) and had clothed him with a blue coat, canary waistcoat, white cravat, creamy breeches, and the boots already mentioned, I had to find him a little to do and a great deal to eat; and with both of these horrible requirements he haunted my existence. (233)

I understand that this was discussed in class on Monday, but since I wasn't there, I have no idea what it is talking about. It mentions how it is a slave to him and how he has clothed it. Could someone please explain to me who exactly the Avenger is and why it is mentioned in context with Joe's visit to Pip in London.

An Image of Great Expectations

This photo to me is a representation of how once the day comes for Pip to leave his home, time speeds up and it seems to take no time before he is gone and on his way to London. Pip says "We changed again, and yet again, and it was not too late and too fat to go back, and I went on (171)." It seems to me that at the last minute he wished that Joe would come or he could go back and say goodbye one last time, but before he could, he was gone. After he is far enough that he can not go back, London seems to be in front of him immediately.