Month: January 2016

Chapter 15

Pip tries to persuade Joe that he needs to visit Miss Havisham’s but Joe still doesn’t allow him. Joe’s forge worker Orlick who is vicious and not so nice treats Pip cruelly. They both get in an argument about who is going to have a half holiday Joe then decides everyone will have a half holiday, the next day Miss Joe doesn’t want Orlick to have the half holiday, Orlick starts to make rude comments about Mrs Joe, at the same time Joe tells Orlick to stop. Mrs Joe then asks Joe to defend her, he then drops Orlick, Mrs Joe faints from excitement. The next day Pip visits Miss Havisham to enquire about Estella, he is then told that she is abroad. He then leaves, on the way home, Pip sees Orlick and they both walk back home. Pip and Orlick then hear guns fire from the prison ships. When he arrives home find out that Mrs. Joe has been attacked and is now a brain-damaged.

Chapter 16

Pip starts to feel guilty as an iron leg is found, which reminds him of how he gave a file to the escapee to remove the in leg in the past. The police offers come to find out who did it their main suspect being Joe. Orlick is called to by Mrs Joe, everyone is expecting him to be denounced but all of a sudden Mrs Joe is happy when she sees Orlick.

Chapter 17

Biddy moves in to help take care of Mrs Joe. He then talks a walk with Estella, although he seems attracted to Biddy he tells her how much he loves Estella. They see Orlick and BIddy tells Pip that Orlick likes her but she doesn’t like him.

Chapter 18

At the three Jolly Bargemen’s one evening Mr wopsle talks about the trial of a murder suspect in the newspapers. When all of a sudden he is interrupted by a lawyer who proves him wrong and makes a joke out of him. Pip recognises the lawyer, the stranger introduces himself and goes home with Pip and Joe. The lawyer explains to Pip that he is soon to inherit a large fortune and will visit London to learn how to become a gentleman. He also learns that his tutor will be Mathew Pocket, Joe refuses to let him go , but then leaves the final decision to Pip, to which he accepts.

Chapter 14

Pip and his family were recently gven 25 guineas which in that time was worth a huge amount of money. Pip carries onto to talk about how he is ashamed of home and how his home was never a pleasant place due to his sister’s temper. Pip sees Joe as the only person he look up to and sees Joe as a honest and humble man. Pip also doesn’t want Estella to see him working. Overall Pip is not satisfied woth the house he lives in and his apprenticship with Joe as he doesn’t want to be a blacksmith and has other ambitions different to Joe.

chapter 11

Pip goes back to Miss Havisham’s house and where at the gate he is greeted by Estela who takes him through a passage under the house. Pip is then ordered to enter the small room where Miss Havisham, Camilla, Sarah Pocket and cousin Raymond are and just stay there until he is given something to do, at the same time her is being mocked by these people. After a few minutes a burly man starts a conversation with Pip and tells him he is no longer needed here. Miss Havisham then forces Pip to walk here as if it is her wedding day. Estella then takes Pip to the garden where he is greeted by a pale young gentleman . who tells Pip “Come and fight”. The two gentleman endure in a battle and throw punches at one another, but in the end Pip wins and knocks down the gentleman. He then leaves and goes to Estella whom he kisses at her approval.

Chapter 12

Pip begins to get faint memories of his experience with the young gentleman and makes his way towards Miss Havisham’s house as it is her birthday. After the visit Pip returns home and informs his sister that him and Joe are both invited to Miss Havisham’s house.

Chapter 13

Joe and Pip make their way toward Miss Havisham’s house both dressed smartly. Miss Havisham then greets Joe and Pip and asks Joe if he is the the husband of Pip’s sister to which he answers to Pip not Miss Havisham. Questions are continuously asked to Joe by Miss Havisham and he answers them to Pip not Miss Havisham. Mis Havisham gives Pip and Joe 25 ginnies, ton which they have a celebration at the local pub.

Maze Runner is a fantastic and very interesting book that shows the suffering teens have to endure in a dystopian world, where their blood is precious and highly valuable for the survival of the human race against a devastating disease.

Summary

The book begins with a teenager who wakes up in an elevator going up but not going down with him in it, he has absolute no memory other than his name which is Thomas. Once the elevator reaches the top, Thomas is pulled out of the elevator into the Glades by group of boys who have experienced the same situation Thomas is in right now and some still do. Each member of this community have their own nicknames.

Thomas begins to discover the Glades and finds out that it is run by two people Alby and Newt who have applied strict rules which ensure the safety of the people living in the Glades and assign jobs to every person. This is very important due to the fact that outside the glades is the maze where creatures that possess the ability to kill and poison humans lurk at night time, these creatures are called ‘Grievers’ no one in the Glades has ever managed to kill one and no one who has seen one has ever made it out alive. The boys are now forced to try stay alive and solve the maze at the same time, thus forcing them to enter the maze and locate an exit.

A day has gone by since Thomas’ arrival and suddenly another person is sent up by the elevator this time its different. Instead of it being a boy it is a girl. At the time of the arrival many of the boys were surprised some even excited until she started to mumble words and then collapsed into a coma, however the girl’s arrival triggers the sun disappearing, food supplies not arriving anymore and the worst of them all, door being open at night allowing the Grievers to enter and feast on the people.

Whilst everyone is in panic Thomas thinks of an idea, and figures out that the maze is actually code and by using skills he works out the word it spells out. He also discovers that a cliff that was thought to just be a cliff is in fact the place where Grievers originate from so he thought that this could be a possible exit. Whilst everyone is panicking Theresa wakes up and informs Thomas that she knew him before she was sent here.

A day has gone by and Thomas at his own will gets himself stung by a griever so he can find out where this “cliff” is and how to get there. Due to a recent turn of events a large group decide they are better off trying to escape then staying in the glades and make a run for the exit. The group finally escape the maze but suffer a few casualties, upon their exit they find out that they have been experimented on and are part of a much bigger project, the people responsible go by the name WCKD, shocked and curious at the same time,they are even more surprised when a rebel group enter the facility and take the them away.

AMBITION

Ambition is vastly used throughout the book where characters have to risk their own lives to ensure the safety of others.Ambition is portrayed by the actions and wrongdoing of Thomas (the man character), many events in the book start to take a turn for the worse: the maze stays open 24/7 allowing grievers to devour the innocent people living in the glades and food supplies stop being delivered. Even though all this is happening at the same time Thomas goes against the rules of the Glades and through using ambition and the desire to overcome this hell he devises a plan to rescue and escape this place.

The book ends on a cliff-hanger leaving the reader curious on what’s going to happen next. Where Is this ‘Rebel Group’ going to take them? Why are they helping these children?