Great Expectations -How Pip changes throughout the novel

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Great Expectations -

How Pip changes throughout the novel

The story is set in a dark and dreary graveyard where we meet Pip, he is sitting by his parents grave on Christmas Eve, he was a fragile and lonely little boy. He seemed to be all alone and and not a child with such a great childhood, but not very many people those days had a happy childhood unless they were quite well off. Pip seems caught up in the death of his parents and he was always trying to picture them by the way the tombstone is written and the inscriptions given, as in those days photographs weren't the in things in those days. 'my fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones . The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, 'Also Georgina Wife of the Above,' I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.'  

We gathered that he lost his parents at a very young age and we know this because he is only seven or eight years old, since his parents died and his older sister had to look after him, which she was never to happy about, she was also married to the blacksmith, Joe. Pip's sister has no respect for him and she is constantly beating him up with a wax-ended piece of cane and they reffered to it as the 'Tickler', not only would she beat up and bully Pip but, her own husband,Joe, too. 'she brought me up 'by hand'. Having at the time to find out what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a very hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon me,'. Pip has had a very strict upbringing by Mrs Joe. Pip and Joe became very good friends they only became this close because Joe treated Pip as a he would if it was a friend  and they were always there for each other, and this seemed to be one of his only friends at this point in the story, he always looked up to Joe and wanted to be a blacksmith, when he was older, just like Joe. Pip saw Joe as an a older version of a child and treated him as an no more than an equal. Joe and Pip were also both very scared of Mrs Joe as she would continuosly beat up both of them. Pip's family were never to well off and therefore they lived in a poor area, in 'the marsh country, down by the river'.  

As a little boy Pip has not had an easy life up and until he went to London and he enjoyed learning how to be a gentlemen, but throughout his adulthood but throughout his adulthood he always thought that was a major part of his life. He grew therefore to be a snob and he also forgot his background, who actually was.

Pip did not have an easy life because as he was growing up he had to do practically all the chores and he couldn't go out to play like other children his age as he was not permitted to do so by his sister and if he went against what his sister said thenhe would be beaten with the cane.

When Pip met Magwitch, an escaped prisoner, he is very scared and is frightened at first then he only feels sorry for Magwitch and wants to help him. Magwitch threatens to hurt Pip if he didn't get him some 'whittles' (food) and a 'file' (knife). This shows how desperate he was and how he would even threaten a little boy. Magwitch makes Pip swear that he will return the following early morning with the food and the knife, he demanded or he would kill him and eat his insides.

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'the question being wheather your'e to be let to live.' 'your heart and your liver shall be tore, out, roasted and ate'. 'say lord strike you down if you don't!'

In the morning as Pip sneeks the food and himself out of the house but as he is running to get to meet Magwitch, his concious kept saying to him that he is going to get caught, Mrs Joe will wake up and find that Pip and the pie has gone and that has is steeling it. 'A boy with somebody-else's pork pie'! Stop him!' Pip then also sees ...

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