The document summarizes chapters 13-15 of Great Expectations. It discusses how Pip is legally bound after Joe produces the money for his apprenticeship. Over time, Pip grows to hate working in the forge but keeps it to himself out of respect for Joe. Biddy continues teaching Pip while Orlick begins insulting Mrs. Joe. Pip also revisits Miss Havisham, who only mocks him when he asks after Estella. Themes of lost innocence, kindness, and emerging snobbery are discussed.

1. Great Expectations

2. Chapter 13
 Returning to Mr. Pumblechook's house, where Mrs. Joe is also
anxiously waiting, Joe produces the twenty five pounds much to
everyone's -- except Pip's -- joy.
 Caught up in the excitement, Mr. Pumblechook insists that Pip be
legally bound by law and drags Pip and the entourage down to the
Town Hall to be bound.

3. Points to Ponder
Meals and Theme of relationships:
 Throughout the novel, Dickens uses meals as a
reflection of the relationships.

4. Chapter 14
 Time passes as Pip begins to work in the forge; as the boy
slowly becomes an adolescent. He hates working as Joe’s
apprentice, but out of consideration for Joe’s goodness, he
keeps his feelings to himself.
 Pip as a narrator explains his misery to his readers. He is
ashamed of his home, ashamed of his trade. He wants to be
uncommon, he wants to be a gentleman.

5. Points to ponder
We need to notice the contradiction and
contrast in Pip's shame at having to do
honest, hard work with his desire to be a
gentleman.
Dickens' criticism is on two levels.

6. Chapter 15
 Biddy continues to teach Pip all she knows.
 Orlick, a man that Joe employs around the forge, begins
one day to insult Mrs. Joe within her hearing. She and
Orlick indulge into a quarrel.
 It has been almost a year now that Pip is working at the
forge. Now he revisits Miss Havisham at the Satis House.
She sees him for a few moments, but only to laugh at him
when he looks around for Estella.

7. Themes found in these chapters
Themes of Loss of Innocence and Kindness:
 The consequence of Pip’s intensifying social ambition is
that he loses some of his innocence and becomes detached
from his natural, sympathetic kindness.
 Now, there is a change. Pip is unable to sympathize even
with Joe, the most caring figure in his life.
Emergence of Snobbery:
 We need to see Pip’s response to Estella vs. Biddy in this
connection.

8.  Suspense
 Crime

9. Orlick
 Orlick, one of the
villains of the novel.

10. Symbols
Mist

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