The bleak lonely landscape suggests in a way that Pip is lonely and sort of growing up on his own. And that his life is plain and dull, such as 'bleak place with overgrown nettles' suggests that where Pip lives is not very well looked after and not many people care how well their village looks like.
In the second paragraph of chapter one we find out that his parent’s died when he was young because he can’t remember what either of his parents look like, but we are told that Pip is at the graveyard where his parents are buried. Pip tells us what he thinks his parents look like by the inscription on the tombstone.
“He was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair, my mother was freckled and sickly.” We also learn Pip had five siblings.
When Pip is about to leave the graveyard he runs into an escaped convict who asks him where his mother is, Pip points to the tombstone where his mother lays, the convict turns round in surprise, and says where. Pip tells him
“There sir” the convict now realises the next thing he asks is
“Where you live” Pip points and says
“To where our village lay on the flat in-shore,’ the convict then turns Pip upside down and empties his pockets, there was nothing except a piece of bread. He then asks Pip to get him some wittles (food) and a file, and if he doesn’t get them to him by early morning. He knows a certain young man who thinks the world of the convict and that he has a ‘pecooliar’ way of getting at a young boy’s hear and liver and if Pip does not get him the food, Pip will never feel safe again.
We learn that Pip has an older sister who is twenty years older than him. She is like a mother figure to Pip. She is married to ‘Joe Gargery (blacksmith), his sister treats Pip very badly and is always going on saying
“Who brought you up by hand?” When Pip gets home from the graveyard Joe says
"Mrs Joe has been out a dozen times looking for you Pip, she even took tickler. (A whip)" After this we see her bullying Pip making him drink a pint of tar water because he was supposed to have been bolting his food but he was taking food for the convict. We see Joe sticking up for Pip at this part so he is also told to drink tar, but only half a pint.
We see Pip has a guilty conscience when he takes the food and the file to the convict, while taking the food, Pip hears voices saying
"Stop thief" and "Get up Mrs Joe." This is because Pip knows he is doing wrong and he wants Mrs Joe to wake up so then he does not have to go and see the convict, this is because he is most likely scared of the convict and give him the food.
Pips sensitivity and imagination is shown when he is in the graveyard and he says about the tombstone and how the inscription on the tombstone might say what his parents look like
'He was a square, stout, dark man with curly hair, and my mother was freckled and sickly. Another time Pip uses his imagination is when he is on way to deliver the goods to Magwitch and he thinks that the gates and dykes and banks are saying
"A boy with somebody else's pork pie! Stop him!" He also believes that the cattle were staring out of their eyes, and steaming out of their nostrils, saying
"Holla, young thief " This shows that Pip doesn't want to get into trouble and he wants someone to catch him so he won't have to go and see the convict.
Pip’s pity for the convict who we learn that his name is Magwitch is shown in the third chapter of ‘Great Expectations’ when Pip delivers the food to Magwitch and asks him
“I think you have got the ague” Magwitch replies
“I’m much of your opinion boy,” this shows that Pip has sympathy for Magwitch, but it also shows that Magwitch does not want to except the sympathy.
The first three chapters of ‘Great Expectations’ makes us fell sympathy for Pip because we found out Pip is an orphan and that he never can remember what his parents look like just what he gets as an idea from the tombstone. What his parents look like. We also learn that Pip lives on the bleak, lonely landscape, which is very marshy. This would make anyone feel sorry because it is a very dull, murky place to live. Pip has an encounter with an escaped convict who asks him to get him food and a file, and if Pip doesn’t he will get a certain man to get at his heart and liver. We learn that Pip has an older sister who bullies Pip and her husband. When she thinks Pip had been bolting his food down, so she made him drink a pint of tar water. When Pip had arrived home too late she gave him whacks from tickler. This makes you feel sorry for Pip because nowadays parents don’t discipline their children in that kind of way. Pip builds a guilty conscience when he is taking the food and drink to the convict, also he believes he can hear voices which make him worried. On the way to the convict, Charles Dickens puts that the gates and dykes and banks come bursting out at Pip through the mist and that the cattle were calling him young thief. Pips sensitivity and imagination runs riot through out the first few chapters. We first meet Pip using his imagination in the graveyard where he is saying what his parents look like through his imagination when he meets Magwitch for the second time and is feeling sorry for him because Magwitch is ill and Pip is trying to give him sympathy. This part also shows the pity for Magwitch.
You end up feeling sorry for Pip because he has had a hard life and he doesn’t have much behind him, and he hasn’t been treated very well in his life so far.
