Pip's Manipulation

Pip was a young boy who lived in the marshes of England. His parents were deceased so he lived with his sister and brother in law, Joe. While visiting his parents graves a convict took him, and threatened him into bringing a file and some food. Pip stole this from his family. Later on the convict is captured ,and for Pip’s sake, lies and says he stole the tems and is carried away to jail. A few weeks later, Mr. Pumblechook, Pip’s uncle, carries Pip to Mrs.Havisham, an old widow, to play at her house. Pumblechook and Joe hope that Pip will inherit Havisham’s fortune. An illuminating moment in Great Expectations is when Pip, while in London training to become a gentleman, learns his benefactor, all these years, has been the convict that he encountered as a young boy, which in turn follows

“I relinquished the intention he had detected, for I knew him! Even yet I could not recall a single feature, but I knew him! If the wind and the rain had driven away the intervening years, had scattered all the intervening objects, had swept us to the churchyard where we first stood face to face on such different levels, I could not have known my convict more distinctly than I knew him now as he sat in the chair before the fire. No need to take a file from his pocket and show it to me; no need to take the handkerchief from his neck and twist it round his head; no need to hug himself with both his arms, and take a shivering turn across the room, looking back at me for recognition. I knew him before he gave me one of these aids, though, a moment before, I had not been conscious of remotely suspecting his identity.” (Chp. 39, pgs.