Great Expectations Questions and Answers

Questions:
1. What happens to Pip when he's at the courtyard visiting the gravestones? 
2. What does it mean that Pip has been raised "by hand"? 
3. How does the shackled man respond when Pip asks him if he will save any food for his friend? 
4. Why does Pip get more and more nervous as their Christmas dinner progresses? 
5. Why are the soldiers outside of Pips house? 
6. When Pip has to go with the soldiers to find the convicts, what does the shacked man do that surprises Pip? 
7. What happens when Pip brings home the note from school? 
8. What is implied about England's government when Dickens has Joe tell Pip that Mrs. Joe, being given to government, does not want him to be able to read and write?
9. How does Estella criticize Pip, and what does his reaction to her criticism reveal about Pip?
10. Pip is ashamed of his home, and is unhappy there: why doesn't he run away?


Answers:
1. He is met by a ragged looking man with an iron shackle on his leg. Who threaten Pip to bring him food the next day or he will get hunted down. 
2. This means that he has been raised by a hand that won't hesitate to hit him if he gets out of line. The person who does this most often is his sister. She and her husband have raised him since he was young. 
3. The man laughs as if his friend didn't mean anything to him. Then once Pip says he ran into another man earlier, the shackled man gets curious. He asks Pip to point him into the direction where the man was. 
4. As the dinner goes on, Pip gets closer to getting caught for bringing that food and drink to the shackled man. He replaced the brandy with tar water and when his uncle starts drinking it he starts coughing. Then before they eat the pork pie he bolts out the door before they find out what he did. 
5. They need the blacksmith (Joe) to fix the handcuffs so that they can track down the two prisoners who escaped. This is a relief for Pip because he felt they were coming to arrest him. 
6. The shackled man recognizes Pip and once again Pip is nervous that he will get in trouble. During the whole police report the man never tells on Pip or admits what Pip did. The man also takes the blame and says he robbed the blacksmiths house. This taking Pip off the hook. 
7. Joe tries to read it but it's hard to make out. Then the two realize that Pip is close to be illiterate. Then Joe goes in depth of his childhood and his education. 
8. Mrs. Joe is being compared to the Englush government because Dickens says that the English government does not want its lower classes to be educated. He believes that if the lower class recieves education they could rebel and take over the goverment.
9. She critisizes how Pip is just a common labouring boy. Pip for the first time feels ashamed of being "common". He felt inferior to her and later cries because of her cruelty.
10. Pip decides not to run away because he had no where lese to go and Joe had always been friendly and nice to him.