Great Expectations Chapters 40-42

Summary

• Pip's convict reveals himself as the patron of pip and his education.
• Pip's convict's name is magwitch and he asks him to call him uncle Provis because he needs a disguise because he is still wanted.

Theme of Chapters

• 40: questioning
• 41: Realization
• 42: Explanitory

Key Quotes

• 40: "and this is the gentleman what I made! the real genuine one! it does me good fur to look at you pip."
• 41: "after all, stopping short here, never taking another penny from him, think what i owe him already! then again: i am heavily in debt, -very heavily for me, who have now no expectations, -and i have been bred to no calling and am fit for nothing"

Conflicts

• Pip and herbert have a conflict about their debt

Setting

• The setting of these chapters are all in Pips Living quarter in london

Characters

• Pip
• Herbert
• Magwitch (Uncle Provis)
• Compeyson
• watchman

Major Issues

• Pip realizes how much he is in debt
• They have to hide magwitch because he is still wanted by the law

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