Friday, March 27, 2015

In Chapter 9-10, how do the readers know the bank notes came from the convict?Can you give proof?

The answer to this is found in Chapter 10.  In that
chapter, Pip is at the Jolly Bargemen when a stranger comes in and wants to buy people a
drink.  It soon becomes clear to the reader that the stranger is the convict that Pip
had helped.  He later gives Pip a shilling and the bank
notes.


When he first comes in, we can already kind of see
that something is going on.  The man is looking funny at Pip, as if he is trying to tell
Pip something.  Then he keeps doing things like rubbing his leg very significantly. 
This (we know as readers) is a way of referring to the shackles that had been on his
leg.  But the thing that really tips us off is the fact that the man stirs his drink
with the file that Pip took from Joe and gave to the
convict.


All of this tells us that this man (who gives Pip
the money) is really the convict.

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