compare chapter 1 and 39 of great expectations

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Compare chapter 1 of Great Expectations in which Pip first meets the convict with chapter 39, when the convict returns

The circumstances when the two characters meet in the chapter 1 and chapter 39 are quite different. The first time they meet pip is a small lonely orphan, about six or seven years of age who is living with his sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, and her husband the blacksmith. At this moment in time pip is still a innocent, kind child. This is portrayed when the Magwitch asks him about his parents’ names; Pip recites them exactly as they appear on the tombstones, "Also Georgiana. That's my mother.” like a young child would, showing his innocence. Leading up to chapter 39 pip, after becoming wealthy, begins to perceive the world rather narrowly, and his superficial values leads him to behave badly toward the people who care about him. When Pip becomes a gentleman, for example, he immediately begins to act as he thinks a gentleman is supposed to act, which leads him to treat Joe and Biddy snobbishly and coldly. When he encounters Magwitch again in chapter 39 he remains a “game one” to begin with, not knowing magwitch’s true identity. As soon as he finds out he immediately returns to his old self just like he was at the grave yard. "Stay! said I. "Keep off”, but he’s true former self resurfaces when he finds out that it was magwitch that was his beneficer, "I hope you have done well?".

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            Magwitch escapes from prison in chapter 1 of Great Expectations and terrorizes Pip in the cemetery. At this moment in time he is “A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared and growled; and whose teeth chattered ...

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