Great Expectations Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter 7 Summary

Chapter 7 Summary

Pip talks about his struggles, as a young child, to read the family tombstones. When he is older, he will be formerly apprenticed to Joe as a blacksmith. Meanwhile, he does odd jobs, whose compensation winds up in his sister's moneybox. Pip also goes to school with Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt, but most of his education is gained through her granddaughter, Biddy, who helps him through the alphabet. One day, Pip shows Joe a letter he has written to him and quickly finds out that Joe cannot read. Joe asks Pip to teach him in secret so that his wife will not be annoyed. Pip discovers that Joe was not educated because of the instability of his home life, dominated as it was by a father who beat both him and his mother. One day, Mr. Pumblechook arrives with Mrs. Joe and tells Pip he has been requested to visit Mrs....
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