Compare Chapter One of Great Expectations, in which Pip first meets the convict, with Chapter 39 when he returns. Pip Pirrip is our main character of the story ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens. From what we’ve read in chapter one, we have found out that he is an orphan living in Kent with his older sister and her husband, Joe Gargery. We are not sure about his age but we can guess that he is around eight years old. He meets an escaped convict by the name of Magwitch, who asks him to bring some food and a file so he can escape from the shackles at his feet. Later in the book, Pip inherits a lot of money and moves to London where he is educated and meets an old friend. But one night an old stranger by whom he doesn’t…show more content…The convict, Magwitch, is very similar to Pip in a sense. We again don’t know much about his parents, i.e. Pip’s being dead and hardly mentioned and Magwitch’s not mentioned at all, both uneducated and poor.
