Marcel did a formidable job in class discussion today addressing the overuse of coincidence in Dickens , Estella's explanations to Pip of her essential nature, and the relationship of the bildungsroman genre to Estella's parting words to Pip, "Do we part with you as a visionary boy or ..a man?" Estella's parting words to Pip encapsulate the genre's theme of the journey from boyhood to self aware manhood. Marcel offered a good explication of the importance of the word"visionary" in describing Pip's imaginative boyhood which doomed him into believing Miss Havisham was his benefactor and Estella his intended betrothed. We further studied the text noting language describing Pip's character growth in his plea to Miss Havisham to assist Herbert, and in his newly found compassionate attitude toward Magwitch. who risked "peril " to see Pip . As to Miss Havisham, we read aloud textual passages wherein Miss Havisham feels remorse having at last realized that ,blinded by her own ordeal ,she failed to recognize that Pip ,in love, was sorely reminiscent of herself before she was jilted. I reviewed the homework study questions and supplemented Marcel's responses where appropriate in order to explain the rather obtuse escape plan of Pip and Magwitch to row a boat to the middle of the Thames and there hail a passenger ferry to the Netherlands as if it were a taxi. Marcel astutely questioned the practicality of the plan and whether this was an accepted practice in the 1840s . As we are having a quiz on Wednesday, I last addressed the scope and format of the quiz . For homework due Wednesday , study for quiz ,read chapters 48 and 49 and answer study guide questions.