Reading Assignment 2

Early in the morning, Pip leaves to find the convict at the Battery. On his way, Pip meets another convict who Pip believes is the young man that was previously spoken of. Pip finds his convict and gives him the wittles and the file. Pip asks him if he will be saving any food for the young man. Immediately, the man acts startled and furiously files the iron around his leg. He is realizing that he is not alone.

When Pip returns home, Mrs. Joe is preparing Christmas dinner. Throughout dinner, Pip cannot stop thinking about the pork pie that he stole that it to be dessert for everyone after the main meal. When Mrs. Joe leaves to get the pork pie, Pip runs towards the front door out of guilt and finds a sergeant standing with handcuffs. The officer is looking for Joe so that he can fix the cuffs. Pip thought that the officer was coming to get him because he stole to help a convict. The officers are leaving to steak out the runaway convicts and Mr. Woplse, Pip, and Joe tag along. The group finally finds the two convicts fighting in a ditch in the Battery. I think they were fighting about whose idea it was to escape. The convict that Pip helped spots Pip on Joe's back. Pip tries to make the convict understand that he had nothing to do with it before he boards the ship. Pip's convict explains that he stole the food from Joe's home. Pip and Joe silently agree that it was not completely wrong because no one should ever starve.

One night when Mrs. Joe is out with Uncle Pumblechook, Pip is home practicing writing. Pip then realizes that Joe cannot read because he was unable to go to school. Throughout their conversation it is understood that Joe wishes a better life for Pip. With Mrs. Joe's return, she reports that Miss Havisham wants to have Pip over to play at her home uptown. Although Pip does not know who Miss Havisham is, Mrs. Joe appears to be excited about the invite.