Blog Assignment 1 Explanation

Blog Assignment

Your task over the next few weeks of reading Great Expectations is to track the development of the major characters. For the first blog, I would like you to analyze one of the following passages from the text for one character. Chose from:

Pip

“…I felt fearfully sensible of the great convenience that the Hulks were handy for me. I was clearly on my way there. I had begun by asking questions, and I was going to rob Mrs. Joe.”

Mrs. Joe

“By this time my sister was quite desperate, so she pounced on Joe, and, taking him by the two whiskers, knocked his head for a little while against the wall behind him: while I sat in the corner, looking guiltily on.”

Joe

“It were a bit lonesome then,” said Joe, “living here alone, and I got acquainted with your sister. Now, Pip;” Joe looked firmly at me, as if he knew I was not going to agree with him; “your sister is a fine figure of a woman.”

Answer the question: What do we know about the character’s personality based on this evidence?

Your entry needs to include:

· a claim or topic sentence stating directly what we know about the character

· an introduction to the evidence providing context for the quotation

· analysis (5-7) sentences explaining how the quotation supports your claim

First blogs will be checked in over the weekend. We’ll talk about responses to blogs next week.