GREAT EXPECTATIONS . CHARLES DICKENSCHAPTER 7: I VISIT MISS HAVISHAM AND MEET ESTELLASUMMARY Pip is an orphan who lives with his sister and her husband. When Pip was big enough he started to do some odd jobs and one day he was called by Miss Havisham, a wealthy and strange old woman, to go to her house to play. Miss Havisham house was called Satis. When Pip arrived there he saw that it was an old brick house with some of the windows walled up and others with bars; a very unwelcoming house. Inside the house was even worse, everything was dark and only a candle lit the way until the Ladys room.Pip knocked at the room door and went in. Miss Havisham was the strangest woman he had ever known; he felt afraid of her. The room was big and well illuminated with candles , but without any daylight . In an armchair sat the strange lady dressed in white, a white wedding dress, white shoes, a long white veil and with wedding flowers on her hair; those were white too.Everything that surrounded her was exactly the same as the day of her wedding, when her fianc left her. Since then she had not left her room and even the clocks had stopped at the time she read his boyfriend letter; at twenty to nine.Miss Havisham told Pip that her heart was broken and that she hadnt seen daylight since before he was born, that she was tired and bored but that she enjoyed seeing people play and she asked him to play cards with Estella.Estella was a young girl, more or less the same age as Pip, that Miss Havisham had adopted some years ago.Estella was arrogant and she felt herself superior. She was cruel to Pip and treated him very badly. She laughed at him and made him feel poor and inferior, until the point of making him cried.Miss Havisham had educated her to hate men and to treat them badly as a revenge of her own suffering.However, from that day Pip started to be in love with her.OPINIONS- A dream come true. The story of an orphan boy who escapes poverty and rises through the class structure of Dickens England.- A novel faithful to Dickens style where he shows us the differences of social classes and touches problems such as the difficulties that the poor face and how different there life is compared to the rich.- Dickens was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era and his novels are very useful to understand this period.- A great novel that touches a topic that can be as actual in the 19th century as in the 21st century; the importance of values, friendship and love in front of richness and power.

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CORRECTIONS GREAT EXPECTATIONS . CHARLES DICKENSCHAPTER 7: I VISIT MISS HAVISHAM AND MEET ESTELLASUMMARY Pip is an orphan who lives with his sister and her husband. When Pip was big enough he started to do some odd jobs and one day he was called by Miss Havisham, a wealthy and strange old woman, to go to her house to play. Miss Havisham's house was called Satis. When Pip arrived there he saw that it was an old brick house with some of the windows walled up and others with bars; a very unwelcoming house. Inside the house was even worse, everything was dark and only a candle lit the way to the Ladys room.Pip knocked at the room door and went in. Miss Havisham was the strangest woman he had ever known; he felt afraid of her. The room was big and well illuminated with candles , but without any daylight . In an armchair sat the strange lady dressed in white, a white wedding dress, white shoes, a long white veil and with wedding flowers on her hair; those were white too.Everything that surrounded her was exactly the same as the day of her wedding, when her fianc left her. Since then she had not left her room and even the clocks had stopped at the time she read her boyfriends letter; at twenty to nine.Miss Havisham told Pip that her heart was broken and that she hadnt seen daylight since before he was born, that she was tired and bored but that she enjoyed seeing people play and she asked him to play cards with Estella.Estella was a young girl, more or less the same age as Pip, that Miss Havisham had adopted some years before.Estella was arrogant and felt superior. She was cruel to Pip and treated him very badly. She laughed at him and made him feel poor and inferior, to the point of making him cry.Miss Havisham had educated her to hate men and to treat them badly as a revenge of her own suffering.However, from that day on Pip loved her.OPINIONS- A dream come true. The story of an orphan boy who escapes poverty and rises through the class structure of Dickens England.- A novel faithful to Dickens style where he shows us the differences of social classes and touches problems such as the difficulties that the poor face and how different there life is compared to the rich.- Dickens was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era and his novels are very useful to understand this period.- A great novel that touches a topic that can be as relevant in the 19th century as in the 21st century; the importance of values, friendship and love in the face of richness and power.