Connections

One of the stories I have heard that can be connected to Great Expectations in the way of Becoming a Gentleman is Cinderella. Well... I guess its not a Gentleman but more of a Lady. Pip goes from a nothing laborer to become a Gentleman, one that has money and power. It is some how like Cinderella but of the opposite gender, Cinderella is working in poor and dirty clothes, and then meets the prince and becomes a lady.

Cinderella is one of the ones that has had the many hardships that come by and through but it may not be like Pip because Pip doesn't get the girl he was aiming for, where Cinderella did. Estella just straight up refuses Pip and the prince in Cinderella wants to find her and marry her. But in the respect that they had changed from being nothing to being something is true and that is how I connected these two stories.

Pip Quote

Pip in this quote is referring to life, where a person builds his life link by link, or day by day. Pip has from this time thought about his life compared to miss Havisham's, when he thinks of how illiterate Joe is to Miss Havisham, he gets embarrassed. This has changed Pip as he wants to grow up in a different way, he wants to be more like Miss Havisham and less of a poor boy with little education, he would rather have more education and less embarrassing moments. This day in his life has greatly impacted Pip's life in a negative way, changing his attitude completely.

I never really had a select day to start my "chain" or started developing the person I am now, but I think when I started this "chain" was when I was little, my most memorable times was in baseball. Baseball has given me my friends and has shown that if someone doesn't have teamwork or friendship, they won't really succeed in life.