Impressions Gained of Pips Character from Great...

Impressions Gained of Pips Character from Great Expectations Pip is very much a child in the the first chapter. However, it is Pip narrating it as an adult ( retrospective narrator). You know he is a child by his childish thoughts and his rather odd imagination. He manages to come up with the childish conclusion that his father is a square, stout, dark man, with curly hair just by looking at his fathers tombstone. Also, that his mother was freckled and sickly. It is quite bizarre that Pip has managed to conjour up that idea from a tombstone. I think Dickens has done this to prove a childs nieve, yet wild imagination. I think Pip tries to trace his parents or identify them this way just so he can feel placed in the†¦show more content†¦An impression I also recieve from Pip is that he is very polite. He repeatedly uses the word sir when speaking to Magwitch even when Magwitch is threatening to cut Pips throat. I also believe that the setting has a link to Pips feelings and the whole atmosphere. The setting is used to make Pips visit to the graveyard more memorable. The settings dark, flat wilderness also builds up the tension and emotion for Magwitchs arrival. It also adds to Pips fear and emotion. Magwitch was a fearful man, all in coarse grey with a great iron on his leg. At this time Pip was undersized for his years and not very strong. Pip is very afraid of Magwitch and he is only a young child who is already going through the emotion of his parents and brothers deaths. You know Pip was very traumatised as he sat trembling while Magwitch ate the bread ravenously and tried to keep himself from crying. Pips fear of Magwitch grows when Magwitch says I aint alone, as you may think I am. Dickens does this to intimidate Pip even more and to make Pips experience with Magwitch as fearful and as memorable as possible. Magwitch then starts to go into great detail about what the other man can supposedly do. The description of the man kind of sounds like a ghost or horror story and Magwitch refers to himself as an Angel compared to the other man. You may think yourself comftable and safe, but that young man will softly creep and creep his wayShow MoreRelated The Rehabilitated Magwitch in Great Expectations Essay1326 Words   |  6 PagesThe Rehabilitated Magwitch in Great Expectations      Ã‚   A warmint, dear boy is the answer that Magwitch gives Pip when asked what he was brought up to be (305; ch. 40). This is what any person would expect from a man who has lived a life of crime. With further exploration, however, one will see that it is deeper than petty theft and prison. 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