Great Expectations book What advice does Pip seek from Wemmick? What advice does Wemmick give him?

great expectations by charles dickensGreat Expectations book What advice does Pip seek from Wemmick? What advice does Wemmick give him?
Great Expectations is written in a semi-autobiographical style and is the story of the orphan Pip, writing his life from his early days of childhood until adulthood. The story can also be considered semi-autobiographical of Dickens, like much of his work, drawing on his experiences of life and people.





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Mr. Wemmick actually gives Pip several valuable pieces of advice. Do you mean when Wemmick warned Pip his place was being watched and told him, in a note, not to go home (at the time when Magwitch had already sought Pip out)?





If this is the part about which you are referring, Wemmick tells Pip not to try and flee with Magwitch (his name isn't mentioned) outside of the city. He's telling Pip it's safer to hide someone in the populated city rather than run to a less populated area. Since it was illegal for Magwitch to come back to England, Wemmick is telling Pip they should lie low until Pip is no longer being watched and the crisis has passed before sending Magwitch out of England.





If this is what you wanted, you can read about it in chapters 45 and 46: http://www.online-literature.com/dickens… and http://www.online-literature.com/dickens… (which is, basically, the follow-up to the advice).





Here's a bit of the exchange between Mr. Wemmick and Pip from chapter 45:


';He was puzzled what to do; not the less, because I gave him my opinion that it was not safe to try to get Tom, Jack, or Richard, too far out of the way at present. Mr. Pip, I'll tell you something. Under existing circumstances there is no place like a great city when you are once in it. Don't break cover too soon. Lie close. Wait till things slacken, before you try the open, even for foreign air.';





';I thanked him for his valuable advice, and asked him what Herbert had done?





';Mr. Herbert,'; said Wemmick, ';after being all of a heap for half an hour, struck out a plan. He mentioned to me as a secret, that he is courting a young lady who has, as no doubt you are aware, a bedridden Pa. Which Pa, having been in the Purser line of life, lies a-bed in a bow-window where he can see the ships sail up and down the river. You are acquainted with the young lady, most probably?';