Good Bye Mr.

Chips
Writer’s Biography
 James Hilton (1900 in UK death 1954 in USA)
 Father John Hilton (Headmaster of Chapel End School)
 Total Novel 20
 Good By Mr. Chips is in number 14th (1934)
 First novel was (Catherine Herself in 1920)
 Last novel was (Time and Time Again in 1941)

Facts about the Novel

 A story of a school teacher (punctual, Sincere, Passionate)
 Story based on thoughts of a person (Psychological Novel)
 Real name Of Mr. Chips (Mr. Chipping)
 Two Films (1939 & 1969)
 TV serial (1984 & 2009)
 Discussion on Radio
 Part Of Inter Syllabus in Pakistan (1964)
 Writer (Jims Inspired From his Father and His Teacher (W.M. Balgarnie)
 W.M. Balgarnie taught (Leys School and James studied there in 1915-1918)
 James and Mr. Balgarnie Graduated from Cambridge.
 Balgarnie was teacher of Classics ( Latin- Greek)
 Names taken from school teacher ( Chops)
 Setting of the School Brookfield based on Leys School.
 Inspiration is real but story is not.

Characters
 Central character
Mr. chips (Mr. chipping 1848 – 1933)
 Main Characters
1. Kathrine Bridges: Wife of Mr. Chips ( 25 Years old)
2. Mrs. Wickett: In charge of Linen room at Brookfield and land lady.
3. Dr. Marivale: Friend and Dr. of Mr. chips
4. Colley I, II, and III: They were 3 generations and students of Chips at Brookfield.
5. Linford: Linford, a Brookfield boy, the last to say, “Goodbye, Mr. Chips,” the night
before the Mr. chips dies.

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  Headmasters
1. Mr. Watherby: First headmaster in novel and he takes Mr. Chips’ interview for
school appointment as a teacher.
2. Meldrum: He was 2nd Headmaster at Brookfield
3. Ralston: He was 3rd Headmaster (37 Years old ) at Brookfield and he fights with
Mr. chips
4. Chatteris: He was 4rth headmaster at Brookfield. A good person 33 years old.
5. Cartwright: 5th and last headmaster at Brookfield and also at the time of Mr. Chips’
Death.

LESSON NO: 1
Mr. Chips was a retired school master.

 He lived at Mrs. Wickett’s for more than a decade after retirement.

 He was given to day-dreaming.
 He was born in 1848.
 He could remember Wetherby’s time.
 He was twenty two years old, when he came to Brookfield.
 He had served for a year at Melbury before this.
 He could remember the day of his preliminary interview with Mr. Wetherby and his
advice.
 He could not forget his first tremendous ordeal of taking the class.
 He was never below par despite his growing old age.

LESSON NO: 2

Brookfield was an old foundation.

 In the region of Elizabeth at was established as a Grammar school.

 Its main structure was re-built in the region of George First.
 Wetherby, a headmaster, came in 1840.
 He restored its position. But in later history it remained an ordinary school.
 It accepted Mr. Chips an ordinary teacher, because it was a school of no repute.
 Mr. Chips was an ambitious man in his youth.
 He realized later on that he could not be a headmaster else-where.
 He settled himself that till he was retired and given pension.
 He went across the road to live at Mrs. Wickett’s.

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 LESSON NO: 3
He was a small but very comfortable and airy room at Mrs. Wickett’s.

 He liked it, though the house itself was ugly, because from her he could contract with the
school.
 He entertained the boys as well as master with tea and cakes.
 He was leading a pleasant, placid life with no worries.
 He was furnished simply and with school masterly taste.
 His books of study were, classical, of history, bells-letters and cheap editions of detective
novels.
 So Chips, an old man white haired and only, little bald, lived there luxuriating in reading,
talking, receiving callers busying himself with corrections for the next edition of
Brookfield Directory.

LESSON NO: 4
Chips married in 1896.

 During the summer vacations he went up to the Lake District with his colleague, Rowden.
 Rowden went home after a week and Chips stayed alone at Wasdale Head.
 One day he saw a girl on Great Gable signaling to her friend farther down the mountain.
 He thought she was involved in difficulties. He hastened to help her and in doing so he
wrenched his ankle.
 She helped him. Chips was ill at ease, because he was old-fashioned.
 He disliked modern women.
 She had modern views about women, politics.
 Despite their conflicting views, they fell in love.
 Before Chips could walk without a stick, they considered themselves engaged and they
were married in London.

LESSON NO: 5
Chips recalled the incidents of the spring of 1896 in his hour of day-dreaming.

 He envisaged the great gable, re-smeit the washed air, and re-followed the ribbon of the
pass across to stay Head.
 That time of dizzy happiness, the evening strolls, her cool voice and her gay laughter
clearly lingered in his mind.
 Both had been eager about planning a future.
 She liked the school-boys and his profession of teaching.
 He could not forget that morning when she had laughed in response his self-denunciation.
 She had no parents and was married from the house of an ant in England

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 LESSON NO: 6
His marriage was triumphant success.

 Katherine won over Brookfield as she had conquered Chips.

 The boys as well as masters and even the wives of the masters were dominated by her
charms.
 Above all, she exerted an immensely great influence on the formation and development
of chips character.
 Till his marriage he had been a dry and rather neutral sort of person.
 He was hard-working; he was conscious; but his work was without inspiration.
 She made him, to all appearances a new man.
 His eyes flashed; his mind began to work more adventurously; his sense of humour
blossomed.
 He was obeyed, honored but now he began to be loved by the boys. He gained popularity.
 Katherine made him broad-minded

LESSON NO: 7

Chips was pre-occupied with a host of incidents buried in the past with twilight at Mrs.
Wickett’s..

 She advised him in every little problems that across.

 She advised to be lenient to the boys in general and to be strict with the stubborn sort of
students.
 Chips wished to write those incidents of the past in the form of a book.
 Sometimes he went seven so far as to make desultory notes in an exercise book.
 All the same, there he was dreaming again before the fire, dreaming of times and
incidents in which he alone could take secret interest.

LESSON NO: 8
The spring day of 1898 was unforgettable for him.

 He was terribly shocked by the death of his wife and his newly-born child.
 He was indisposed to receive condolences.
 He tried to busy himself with his routine work.
 The same day he received a lot of letters containing blank sheets of paper.
 He made no comment.
 A day afterwards he came to know that it was piece of April Foolery.

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 LESSON NO: 9
Chips shifted to his original bachelor quarters after the death of his wife and newly-born child.

 Like marriage sadness brought many changes in him.

 With his maturity he became self-confident.
 He did not feel different about his work and worth.
 He adopted strange characteristic in his habits and dress.
 Katherine had left him with a clambers that given well with his own inward emotions.
 He was not bitterly against Boers without being Pro-Boer.
 He was at an age when he could get away with every person.

LESSON NO: 10
Chips became the acting head after the demise of old Meldrum in 1900.

 Ralston was appointed as his successor.

 Ralston had an impressive personality. He was youngster of 37 years.
 The years before retirement had memorable pictures for him.
 He could not forget a May morning when the whole school had assembled to condole the
death of King Edward.
 He remembered a summer morning when the railway men were on strike.
 Diamond Jubilee was another memorable event.
 He could not forget an April evening when he rebuked Grayson.
 Later on Chips had to commiserate with Grayson, the senior, for his son’s untimely death.

LESSON NO: 11

He had a dispute with Ralston in 1908.

 He asked him to retire.

 Chips had never considered about it.
 On this they began to argue.
 Ralston told him plainly that he had old-fashioned methods of teaching and he was
disorderly in personal demeanor.
 Ralston raised objection to his out-of-date pronunciation.
 For Ralston Chips luxuriated too much in the past and not enough in the present and
future.
 Chips thought that Ralston was running Brookfield like a factory which will produce
money-mined people.
 Chips came to know about his popularity when there was an outburst of sympathy for him
and talk of riot, in case Ralston made Chips to resign.

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 LESSON NO: 12

 Ralston left Brookfield in 1911 as he got a better opportunity. He was offered the
headship of a better public school.
 Chatteris was the successor of Ralston. He was a young brilliant man of 34. He was a
science graduate, friendly and sympathetic. He wisely accepted Chips. Chips also
liked him much.
 In 1913, Chips had bronchitis and was off duty for nearly the whole of the winter
term. This made him decide to resign. He was 65 then. He thought it unfair to keep
going if he could not do his duty well.
 In 1913, Chips went to Wiesbaden for his treatment. There, he stayed at the home of
the German master at Brookfield; Herr Steafel was thirty years his junior.
 Farewell speech of Mr. Chips: Chips made many jokes during his farewell speech.
There were several Latin quotations in it.
 Activities of Mr. Chips after his retirement.
 John Rivers in his farewell speech
 In 1880, there spread German measles and the two-thirds of the school fell ill. The
Big Hall of the School was turned into a hospital ward.

LESSON NO: 13

 Contribution of Brookfield School during World War I

 During the war of 1915, military camps were established near Brookfield. The soldiers
used the playing field for sports and training.
 Every Sunday night, after evening service, Chatteris read out the names of the old boys
killed in the war.
 Chatteris got on well with Chips and recognized in Chips a Brookfield institution. He
urged Chips to join Brookfield during the war as it needed him. Chatteris died in April
1917.
 Chatteris requested Chips to join the school again. He said that Chips looked pretty fit
and he wanted him simply to be with him.

LESSON NO: 14

 Chatteris fell ill during the winter of 1917 and Chips became Acting Head of Brookfield
for the second time in his life.
 Routine on his joining Brookfield School as a teacher again. He still kept his rooms
with Mrs. Wickett, and he went to school daily after 10. He felt fit, taught lessons
smoothly and shared jocks.

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 Shelling around Brookfield during the war during the shelling, the whole building
shook as if it were being lifted off its foundations.
 World War I ended on November 11, 1918. A holiday was decreed. Mr. Chips also
tendered his resignation the same day.
 Brookfield celebrate the end of the war
 Maynard was a Chubby, dauntless, clever, and impudent boy. Chips remembered his
reading during the heavy bombing around Brookfield.

LESSON NO: 16

 Mr. Chips came across unexpected cold weather during his visit to the Riviera in Italy. So
he decided not to go abroad after this experience. He said: "I prefer to get my chills in my
own country."
 Different seasons after his retirement summer that he liked the best.
 Gregson was one of the old Brookfield boys who visited Chips during the summer.
 Brookfield boys render during the General Strike of 1926
 The Brookfield boys loaded motor vans with foodstuff and served the nation during the
General Strike of 1926.
 Mr. Chips financially after his retirement Mr. Chips had no financial worries. His income
was more than his expenses.
 Chips made his will in 1930. Except for the legacies to the mission and to Mrs. Wickett,
he left all he had to find an open entrance scholarship to the school.

LESSON NO: 17

 Wickett go a day before Mr. Chips’ death she left the tea things ready on the table with
bread and butter.
 Two things Chips had never done in life never travelled by air and he had never been to a
talk show.
 Linford's meeting with Chips. Linford was a boy of nine. He was the last person who
came to see Chips’ before his death. He made Chips remember his wife, Katherine by
saying, “Good Bye, Mr. Chips”.
 Linford was a new boy at Brookfield. He hailed from Shropshire. He did not have any
family relations at Brookfield. He had recently come out of a sanatorium. He was the last
boy who visited Chips before his death.

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 LESSON NO: 18

 Chips found himself in bed. Dr. Merivale was there, stooping over him and
smiling. Merivale asked Chips if he was feeling all right. He told him that he had
fainted and Chips was lucky that Mrs. Wickett found him.
 Cartwright was the Headmaster of Brookfield who succeeded Chatteris. He joined
Brookfield in 1919
 Just before his death Chips' mind was full of dreams and faces and voices. His
own words and the names of his students sang in his ears. And when he died he
seemed so peaceful.
 Chips’ response on Cartwright’s statement about his being issueless Chips
responded immediately, opened his eyes and in a feeble voice said that he had
thousands of Children and they all were boys.
 After the visit of Old Buffle, Cartwright, Dr. Merivale and Mrs.Wickett , Chips
slept and died peacefully.

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