Book Club Discussion Question for Great Expectations?

I have a book club meeting soon and we have been reading Great Expectations. We need to bring a discussion question with us to the meeting, but I have never bee to a book club meeting before, so I'm not to sure what to write.



Any ideas?Book Club Discussion Question for Great Expectations?
Usually the most effective questions I pick involve really minor characters.



For example, in the Great Gatsby, Nick has a Finnish housekeeper. She's the first woman you meet in the novel, she doesn't speak English, doesn't have a speaking role, and works in a domestic capacity only. What is this saying about the marginalization of women if she is the first female character we encounter?



I would read for a small character that would have an interesting take on the events. OR, I would try to think about how a major point in the story would work in a modern situation. I've always wondered how a modern Pip would react if he found out his benefactor was Charles Manson. Would this story even be possible today? Good luck, and have fun, that's the whole point.Book Club Discussion Question for Great Expectations?
I read that book for English class and i really likes it

Why do you think Pip dosent want to see Joe?

Do you think Estella will ever see Pip the way he ses her?

Why does Ms. Havisham begg for frogiveness from Pip? What does that symbolize???Book Club Discussion Question for Great Expectations?
Try these:



1. Why do you think Charles Dickens created Estella out of his personal tragic experience with love?



2. Many of the characters in Great expectations simulated "real people", that is, they could not be categorized into either protagonists or antagonists, such as Pip himself, and Magwitch. However, Joe Gargery, Compeyson and Estella appear to have been developed into unevolving stereotypes (except Estella's change in the last chapter of the novel). Do you believe so? Why could have Dickens decided on such?



3. Dickens arranged the plot of great Expectations in a tightly-knit manner that puts many detective and mystery novelists to shame. However, isn't the event of Orlick turning out to be a henchman of Compeyson a bit overkill? Dickens could as well have involved someone as minor as Traab's boy into the entire mystery. What is your opinion?