Great Expectations

              Pip has a sense of longing for parenting, this is shown by him talking about his parents.
              He has no sense of identity, this is shown in the first paragraph where Pip introduces himself and says that he could not pronounce his name(Philip Pirrip) more than Pip.
              The setting shows a inhospitable environment.
              The first encounter of the convict is that of a savage and barbaric man, "Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!"
              Pip shows sympathy for the convict, "soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints."
              Magwitch turns Pip upside-down showing how Pip's life is going to be changed or upside-down from then on.
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              The chapter starts off with Pip's description of both Joe and Mrs. Joe Gargery. Pip mainly focuses on the tough, rough and cold side of Mrs. Joe, emphasizing how she was only concerned about the great reputation she had with the neighbors for bringing Pip up 'by hand'. Although Mrs. Joe took over her husband's name, she ironically assumed his power. She is very much the opposite of Joe, as he is described by Pip as a 'fair man' and as a 'mild, good natured, easy-going, foolish, dear fellow'. He is compared by Pip to Hercules as a strong but simple man.
              As Pip runs back home from the churchyard he very briefly describes how Joe's forge adjoined the wooden house they lived in. Pip walks in and finds Joe sitting alone in the kitchen who warns him that Mrs. Joe took the Tickler and is on the rampage looking for him. Joe isn't angry at Pip, in fact, because he feels his wife is on her way back, he tells Pip to hide behind the door. This emphasizes Mrs. Joe's power over both of them, and that Joe's relationship with Pip is very strong; Joe st...

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