When the end of chapter nine talks about iron and gold, thorns and flowers, I believe that this is symbolic of pips transformation as a character. The metals represent pip because he is going to be apprenticed to a blacksmith. It kind of shows how he is turning from something common and mundane, like iron, to something rare and precious, like gold. Because apparently pip means bud, the thorns and flowers also represent him. Maybe it represents how his life gets better, or maybe how he blooms or something. I can’t really peg what’s different about pip because honestly, this book is all kind of blending together for me.
If I had a personal life turn around moment it would probably be around the beginning of the sixth grade, when I figured out I actually had to do my work and make an effort in school in school and stuff. But I think the main reason I think of school is that it’s hard to think of my life as a chain. It’s defiantly more of a timeline. With school, it’s easy because each year is a link. I don’t know how it shaped my life though. How do you even shape something with a chain? I don’t know. I just have problems with the chain metaphor.
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