Dickens tells us that Pip’s mother and father are dead “as I never saw my father or mother”. This creates sympathy for Pip because if he ever ran into trouble their would be nobody to turn to or care for him, or to look after him.
Pip had no memory of his parents “and never saw any
likeness of either of them” ,this is sad because usually when you lose someone you know what they look like or remember and he doesn’t .He also has no resemblance of them .
When Magwitch enters there is a great
deal of sympathy for Pip because ,Magwitch shouts at him “hold your noise!” by saying this he is ordering Pip and Pip can not do anything about it because Magwitch is a fully grown man ,so Pip is defenceless boy .That is where Dickens creates the sympathy for Pip
Dickens shows Magwitch as a wild beast that cant be tamed he describes him in an animalistic way by the he “glared and growled” this is a comparison of when an animal is staring at it’s the idea he growled at Pip would make Pip scared reminding the reader of an animal on the attack .This would of scared ,this is where we fell sorry for Pip.
The way Magwitch treats and speaks to Pip. Creates even more sympathy for Pip. Magwitch also tells Pip to get him some food and something to get his chain off “you get me a file” and “you get me wittles” and threatened him if he didn’t “or ill have your heart and liver out” Magwitch orders Pip to get him a file so that he can remove the iron from his leg the reason he threatened Pip was to make sure Pip did what he asked or he would die. Pip believes Magwitch because he has never seen anyone like that before and would be scared by him .Showing Pip as an innocent little boy .Sympathy for Pip is created when Magwitch orders Pip to tell him his “tell us your name quick!”the explanation mark shows that he is not talking but commanding Pip to do whatever he say showing his authority over Pip.
I think the writer doesn’t create sympathy for Magwitch straight away. In a closer inspection their was sympathy for Magwitch ,the way he creates this sympathy is the way he describes him ,the way he has struggled and appears as a desperate man.
When Magwitch first enters the scene he attacks Pip ,this is because he is scare of going back to prison “hold your noise” .He tells Pip this because he doesn’t want to draw attention to his self . We fell sorry for him because he is terrified of going back to prison.
Magwitch is starving this is shown by “ate the bread ravenously” .This is because while he was in prison they fed them gruel and a bit of bread and some water which wouldn’t of been that clean.
Dickens describes Magwitch’s body language as shuddering this creates even more sympathy for Magwitch. “he hugged his shuddering body” this show that Magwitch is not mentally stable which means he could do something dangerous at the drop of a hat .
Magwitch is not as tough as he first appeared an example of this that he makes up a fictional character to keep the fear Pip .Again this cowardly nature is shown when Magwitch asks where Pip mum and dad and he starts to run away.
In conclusion Dickens created a lot of sympathy for Pip this was achieved this by the way Pip was portrayed as a orphan, another way was how he was harshly treated by Magwitch .Dickens also created a little bit of sympathy for Magwitch , the way the writer described his suffering was very effective, also at the start he seemed very tough but as the extract went on we saw that he was only pretending to be tough .
