Great Expectations - Book Summary & Analysis by Thug Notes
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0:03 - 0:08(violin music)
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0:08 - 0:09What up, G?
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0:09 - 0:10Welcome back to Thug Notes.
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0:10 - 0:12This week, we keepin' it Victorian with
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0:12 - 0:14Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
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0:17 - 0:19This book tells the story of Pip,
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0:19 - 0:20a street kid who be shackin'
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0:20 - 0:21with his crooked sister
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0:21 - 0:22and her hubby Joe.
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0:22 - 0:24One day while paying his respects
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0:24 - 0:25at his parents' grave,
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0:25 - 0:27a cracked-out convict rolls up to him
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0:27 - 0:28and demands some food
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0:28 - 0:31and a nail-file to escape his chains.
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0:31 - 0:32Pip helps a brother out
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0:32 - 0:33but later sees that fool
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0:33 - 0:35get got by the police.
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0:35 - 0:38Later, an uppity cracker named Pumblechook
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0:38 - 0:39arranges for Pip to kick it
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0:39 - 0:41with a rich broad named Miss Havisham
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0:41 - 0:43and her adopted daughter Estella.
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0:43 - 0:44Now Estella may be fine
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0:44 - 0:47but she be acting a straight cock-tease
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0:47 - 0:47to my boy Pip.
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0:47 - 0:49Pip be thinkin' that Miss Havisham
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0:49 - 0:50want to prime him
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0:50 - 0:51to get paid like a gentleman,
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0:51 - 0:53but she shuts his ass down
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0:53 - 0:54and tells him to hustle as a blacksmith
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0:54 - 0:56with his poor Uncle Joe.
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0:56 - 0:58Then one day some lawyer named Jaggers
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0:58 - 1:01tells Pip that he about to get paid
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1:01 - 1:03and inherit a swole fortune.
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1:03 - 1:06So Pip kicks Joe's poor ass to the curb
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1:06 - 1:07and heads to London
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1:07 - 1:08where he gonna learn to be a player.
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1:08 - 1:11Pip be thinkin' that Miss Havisham gave him all that cash
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1:11 - 1:14so maybe she be preppin' him to marry Estella.
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1:14 - 1:15One night, Pip be visited
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1:15 - 1:17by some playa named Abel Magwitch
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1:17 - 1:19who turns out to be the convict
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1:19 - 1:20from the graveyard.
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1:20 - 1:22He tells Pip that it was him
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1:22 - 1:24who gave him all them stacks of cash.
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1:24 - 1:25Now Pip be wiggin' out that
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1:25 - 1:27he ain't bein' primed to marry Estella.
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1:27 - 1:29So he rolls up to that hoe Havisham's crib
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1:29 - 1:31and confesses his love for Estella.
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1:31 - 1:34But that hood rat shuts this stunner down.
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1:34 - 1:36Years later, Pip done f***ed up
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1:36 - 1:37and ends up boned out.
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1:37 - 1:39Uncle Joe does Pip one last solid
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1:39 - 1:41and pays off all his debt.
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1:41 - 1:42Now Pip be feeling like a fool
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1:42 - 1:44for dissin' him all those years ago.
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1:44 - 1:47So Pip decide to stop frontin' with them rich folk
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1:47 - 1:49and keep it real with the boy who got his back.
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1:49 - 1:50Then one day while
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1:50 - 1:52peepin' the ol' Havisham crib,
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1:52 - 1:53Pip runs into Estella
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1:53 - 1:55who be off the short leashes
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1:55 - 1:57of her ex-husband and Havisham
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1:57 - 1:59and decide she want to be cool with Pip.
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1:59 - 2:01At the end of the book, Pip say
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2:01 - 2:04he saw no shadow of another parting from her.
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2:07 - 2:08Now one of the main things
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2:08 - 2:10my boy Charlie D trying to say up in here
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2:10 - 2:12is if you makin' big ass assumptions
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2:12 - 2:13about what the future holds
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2:13 - 2:16you sure as hell got another thing comin', homeboy.
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2:16 - 2:17You can see this here disconnect
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2:17 - 2:19between expectations and reality
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2:19 - 2:21in the character of Havisham.
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2:21 - 2:22This broad always wearin'
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2:22 - 2:24a old, crusty wedding dress
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2:24 - 2:26even though she ain't been married!
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2:26 - 2:27It's like she walkin' around everyday
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2:27 - 2:29showin' that she was expecting way more
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2:29 - 2:31out of life than she actually got.
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2:31 - 2:32Likewise, Pip
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2:32 - 2:34always expecting righteous things to happen to him
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2:34 - 2:36like Miss H makin' him a gentleman
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2:36 - 2:39and getting freaky with that girl Estella
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2:39 - 2:40But this stunner is blind
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2:40 - 2:42to the peeps that actually got his back.
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2:42 - 2:43For example,
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2:43 - 2:45when Pip finds out
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2:45 - 2:46it was Abel that gave him those stacks of cash
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2:46 - 2:48and not that hag Havisham
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2:48 - 2:49he gets all crunk
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2:49 - 2:51'cause it ain't what he expected
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2:51 - 2:52when on the real
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2:52 - 2:53he should be geeked up
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2:53 - 2:55that he got himself a sugar daddy.
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2:55 - 2:56Another theme up in here
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2:56 - 2:57is that having mad money
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2:57 - 2:58corrupts your mind
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2:58 - 3:00and your social relations.
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3:00 - 3:02Before Pip becomes a rich playboy
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3:02 - 3:04that giddy cat Pumblechook
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3:04 - 3:05be disrespecting him all the time
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3:05 - 3:07but after Pip makes bank
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3:07 - 3:09Pumblechook starts treatin' him
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3:09 - 3:10like the man.
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3:10 - 3:12Also when my boy Pip gets them fat pockets
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3:12 - 3:15he starts dissing Joe 'cause he all poor.
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3:15 - 3:16On page 197,
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3:16 - 3:18Pip says he would even pay
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3:18 - 3:20to get Joe's weak ass out of his face
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3:20 - 3:21in spite of the fact
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3:21 - 3:23that on page 127
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3:23 - 3:25Pip straight-up calls this stunner an "angel!"
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3:25 - 3:26Mmm.
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3:26 - 3:28More money, more problems, blood.
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3:28 - 3:30Consider this sh*t right here.
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3:30 - 3:32Conflicting values in this player's life
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3:32 - 3:34be shown through the images of stars
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3:34 - 3:35and fire.
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3:35 - 3:37That chick Estella's name
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3:37 - 3:37comes from a Latin word
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3:37 - 3:39that means 'star'.
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3:39 - 3:40Whereas my man Joe
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3:40 - 3:43be associated with the forge and fireplace.
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3:43 - 3:45My hunky Dickins links that hoe with stars
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3:45 - 3:47'cause while all those stars may be pretty,
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3:47 - 3:48they straight-up unreachable,
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3:48 - 3:50just like Pip's romantic expectations.
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3:50 - 3:51But on the other hand,
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3:51 - 3:53fire is of the Earth
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3:53 - 3:55and Dickins links Joe with fire
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3:55 - 3:57to emphasize that down-home feeling
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3:57 - 3:58of life in the hood
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3:58 - 4:00without wackass delusions.
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