Great Expectations

Cultural Literacy

Information Literacy

Communication Literacy

Joe/Mrs. Joe's life is very hard, living in poverty. Harsh treatment is the only way to protect

Quantitative Literacy

Face to face: In person delivery of an important message (when it could have been mailed)

Joe's mispronounced words and bad grammar.

Joe going to london (outside of his cultural mileau

Nonverbal: Joe dropped his hat

Communication of character through the art of acting, dialect , emotion

Socially stratified world based on class, economics

rules: dress appropriate to class, don't associate outside of your class.

Pumblechook: posturing

Pip going to Havisham's to play; pretty girl outside his league

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Theological Literacy

Joe: saw his mother in Mrs. Joe (from book (GE)

Career/Vocation because of who your parents are, product of your environment

To move outside of the trade, someone "rescues" you (Havisham, Magwich)

Security in given the career path, or but also can be a sense of what if

Joe used his gift/talents to fix handcuffs

Joe makes helpful tools for the people in his community

Mrs. H has lots of money and uses it poorly, she misuses her money, power and privilege

Mrs. H overcome with remorse at the end of her life for misuse

Who is the benefactor? WRONG!

A lot of assumptions by characters

Putting puzzles together with scattered pieces of info (e.g. Estella's past). The characters had to rely on the stories of each other

did not have the kind of record keeping we have today

If you weren't born into respectable family, you don't know your heritage. You basically don't exist

Molly is a clue to Estella's past... noticed her hands

Jaggers keeps lots of secrets, mastermind behind a lot of the maneuvers because he was the lawyer

believably is associated with class

Pip start spending more than he brings in and goes into debt

Mrs. H gave a bunch of money to help/hand check over like it's nothing (and it's a lot more than Pip makes)

Jaggers explains to pip why he gave estella to Mrs. H (saw a lot of bad treatment of children)

Pip was so drawn in by Estella (emotion) didn't listen to reason. Pip is not rational. Biddy refers to it.

Biddy is rational, balances the people who are driven by emotion around her (joe/pip, mrs. J)

Estella not able to feel; makes bad decisions based on inability to feel

Magwich: Went to jail a lot, even as a kid, he had to make bad choices in order to survive even though he knew it was wrong