Month: December 2015

The Shard is said to glower over your combination in Peckham, said by Chakrabortty, the author. This once again uses per assonification, to describe the Shards towering size. To glower is to give a confused disappointing look, therefore it is some what disappointed with those in Peckham, due to what we know of that area it could be said that parts of London’s working class are seen as disappointing to the Shard. Chakrabortty says it “glowers over YOUR convictions” directing this to the reader so they understand that potentially they realise that those who own 99% of the Shard are spying on our way of life.

Chapter X: Pip finds a new interest in his education and decides to take extra lessons from Biddy. On his way back from his schooling Mrs. Joe tells him to collect Joe from the Three Jolly Bargemen, and so there he “directed his steps”. Pip finds Joe smoking his pipe and drinking with Mr. Wopsle and a stranger, who remains unknown by name to the reader but known by the characters. Pip sits with them for a while and at one point sees the “stranger” stiring hid drink with the file that Pip had stolen from Joes workshop to give to the convict. This “stranger” then gives Pip a shilling wrapped in a crumpled piece of paper. Once Pip and Joe have returned home they find that this paper is actually a two pound note. Joe then took the note with him back to the Three Jolly Bargemen, to return this note to its owner, however the “stranger” was no longer there.

Chapter XI: after meeting the “stranger”, Pip returned to Miss Havisham’s, where he is somewhat insulted by family members of Havisham’s on her birthday. later on Pip is taken though the house by the stairs and Estella and she askes him is he thinks she is pretty, he replies “Yes; I think you are very pretty.”. Estella asks him more question until she becomes “fired” and slaps Pip. she then asked him, “Why sont you cry again, you little wretch?” Pip then answers “Because I’ll never cry for you again,” the two of them then walk up the stairs and Pip encounters a “large, dark man” who criticizes him. Shortly afterwards they arrive in the garden where Pip is forced to fight another boy; Pip knocks this boy down many times and  then effectively wins the “fight”. Pip then meets with Estella again and she allows him to kiss her on the cheak

the train was hot and crowded, I’d been sitting next to an old freckled man who mumbled and flailed his arms as he slept. but finally the train guard sounded the tanoy and my stop was revealed, Lytchett Matravers. I had only been told to travel ten stops, therefore you can imagine my confusion when the meeting point was in the middle of the country.

I stepped off the carriage, carrying the Louis Vuitton suitcase, filled with old Nokias and iPhones, along the platform. The bag must have only weighed a couple kilo’s but it felt a ton.

the air was thick and cold, it stabbed and scratched at the back of my throat as I inhaled the smog. ” Lytchett Matravers,” I thought, “I’ve seen better.”. The platform had holes and dips on its surface, the stairs across the station’s two platforms was old and rotting, with mould growing on the chewing gum infested handrail. eventually walking over to the entrance I saw a sign, on which “Lost bags, your new property inside,”

this wasn’t surprising, nowadays people took what they wanted and would casually kill if anyone said no, however seeing as which I was told that if I lost this bag I would be killed I didn’t want to find myself running to this sign at all. I walked over to the door and just as I was about to walk through a stampede of office workers rushing home trampled me at the foot of the door and kicked country dust in my face. I got and carried on hoping no one saw me become just another piece of meet to those animal workers, finally I was out and in the road. the buildings on the street were huge, old rotting things with c racks splitting them in two. the once cream paint had faded from age to an off white. the houses seemed to arch over me in their shear height. The air was still thick, but now gave off an unneededly strong coffee smell and heavily mixed with those of car fumes that were belched from the passing van.

Eventually, I saw my employer and causiously stepped closer.