We reached a critical stage of the novel- the climax where Pip's benefactor is revealed to be not Miss Havisham ,but a convict Pip had assisted as a young boy. I provided instruction on the term "epiphany" and Kaitlin placed in her notes the contents of Pip's awakening from his fantasies. I then discussed how the epiphany is an essential element of the bildungsroman as Pip begins to learn his life lesson about the arbitrariness of class and the moral distance between wealth and virtue. In this regard, we also explored the significance of the convict's assertion that he is Pip's "second father" as PIp's search for self and identity within the genre is intertwined with Pip's orphan status.