Month: November 2015

Chapter 5:

As Pip exit’s through the door, the soldiers come in asking for Joe’s assistants to mend the handcuffs. Meanwhile, Mr Pumblechook presents himself as the man in charge. Mrs. Gargary offers the sergeant some brandy but Mr Pumblechook asks him to take wine instead. Once Joe had fixed the handcuffs the sergeant says that there were 2 escaped convicts they were going to look for at dusk. Joe, Pip and Mr Wopsle go to help. They find the convicts who start an argument amongst themselves. Joe and Pip see the prison ships come and go for the 2 convicts and they head off home.

Chapter 6:

He is relieved about how ‘his convict’ didn’t grass him up while walking home.

Chapter 7:

Pip stands where his parents and his siblings graves are. He goes back home and his ‘parents’ sends him to Mr Wopsle’s great aunt’s evening school. Pip writes a letter to Joe about how much he loves him. The only thing Joe is able to read is his name. Then Joe goes into detail about how his father isn’t a nice guy but still defended him. Why? Joe then talks about how Mrs Joe is a master-mind and he isn’t as she controls him. Mr Pumblechook then tells Mr and Mrs Joe that Miss Havisham wants to play with Pip. Miss Havisham is rich.

In Chapter 3, Pip wakes up early in the morning collects the food and the file and the whittles and heads off towards the marshes and the battery. He encounters a man who is another convict and not the same one who forced him to collect these items. He then finds the man and gives him all of the items and the man eats the food. Pip then returns home where he meets Joe and goes to church with him. In Chapter 4, they return to the house to have the traditional Christmas dinner with Mr. Pumblechook, Mr. Wopsle and Mrs. Hubble where they have a go at Pip knowing he cannot respond. Mrs. Gargery asks Mr. Pumblechook to have a bit of brandy and Pip is worried as he filled it with some water.

Events: Pip was standing by the grave of his mother and father along with his five siblings. He gets confronted by a man with a leg iron and asks him for a file and whittles. He swears on his life and goes to the house. Joe has a joke with Pip and Mrs Joe (a bully) over hears the conversation and gives Pip medicine for bolting on his food. He gets sent to his room for too many questions. He gets everything he needs, and food, and sets off for the “old battery”.

After Arsenal’s terrible display vs Tottenham we are yet to see the true Arsenal finally deliver in the big games. Arsene Wenger has yet to perform against the big teams and with Jose Mourinho’s team all over the place the spotlight is firmly on Arsene Wenger from the fans to finally deliver the Premier League trophy they’ve all been waiting for since 2003/04 season when they went undefeated for the whole season. Arsenal in the last 4 seasons have only had one very good away win vs the so called “big teams” which was against Manchester City last season. A very good win indeed (at Manchester City) but for Arsenal fans – that I have spoken to – to be content with the draw vs Tottenham at home shows that they don’t expect to do well in the big games and are content to draw against Tottenham their arch rivals. Chelsea (a regular feature in the top 4 in the past few years) usually finish above them but they are out of the picture. Earlier on in the season, Arsenal produced an emphatic 20 minute display vs. Manchester United scoring 3 goals and blowing them out of the park to win the game meaning they can take them on man to man.

As previous results show, the last time Arsenal lost to Manchester City was the 14th December 2013 and this means they are capable of beating them no problem home and away. Arsenal have already missed the first opportunity to go to the top of the tree in time for Christmas by slipping up against Tottenham and Manchester City’s worst performance of the season vs. bottom of the table Aston Villa means they are still top of the table on goal difference. Arsenal will obviously has other chances to go top of the table but I believe that this is their golden opportunity to win the league title this year. If they don’t win the league title this year I don’t see another chance for another 3-4 years due to the other teams needing to improve and spending the necessary money to get the Premier League titles they demand. Unless Arsenal spend the big money on a World Class striker, central defensive midfielder and a centre back they won’t stand a chance with Chelsea and Manchester City’s billionaire owners splashing out cash like it grows on trees.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3309429/Arsenal-need-grind-results-playing-badly-want-win-league-especially-victory-sent-Thierry-Henry-reacts-Tottenham-secure-point.html

http://www.11v11.com/teams/manchester-city/tab/opposingTeams/opposition/Arsenal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34372498

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/nov/08/arsenal-tottenham-kieran-gibbs-premier-league-match-report