Help! Great Expectations is quite confusing with some of its skewed terms that I have never heard before. these terms confuse me almost to no end. One part is when Joe notices that Pip's bread is no longer there, “You know, Pip,” said Joe, solemnly, with his last bite in his cheek, and speaking in a confidential voice, as if we two were quite alone, “you and me is always friends, and I'd be the last to tell upon you, any time. But such a—” he moved his chair, and looked about the floor between us, and then again at me—“such a most oncommon bolt as that!”
“Been bolting his food, has he?” cried my sister.
“You know, old chap,” said Joe, looking at me, and not at Mrs. Joe, with his bite still in his cheek, “I Bolted, myself, when I was your age—frequent—and as a boy I've been among a many Bolters; but I never see your bolting equal yet, Pip, and it's a mercy you ain't Bolted dead.” (Dickens 10)
I really don't understand all this talk about 'bolting' anyone know? I understand the general meanings of most things but I feel that by not know what specifically the words mean that i am missing the full experience of Dickens and his writing.
Heaps of thanks!
Love Amaya
