What Makes Pip Feel Afraid Of The Convict?

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Pip gets disoriented and isn’t sure where he is as he searches for the convict. So

when he sees a man sleeping on the river bank, he assumes it is the same convict that he had met earlier

. … This causes Pip to be afraid, but after clumsily trying to strike at Pip, the man himself runs off in fear.

Does Pip feel sympathy for the convict?

Pip is a genuinely kind and generous boy, but he is young and afraid. Even though he does not have much, he is concerned about the convict. …

Pip does have sympathy for the man

. He notices that he keeps hugging himself, and he is limping.

Does PIP feel bad for the convict?

The young Pip is frightened of the convict.

He feels very guilty too about helping him

, as he knows his society would consider it a sin and that Mrs. Joe would be angry.

Do you think Pip feel frightened of the convict or sympathy for him?

ANSWER: I feel that

Pip was frightened of the convict

. The lines that depict his fright were ‘ I was dreadfully frightened and so giddy that I clung to him with both hands’.

Why did Pip feel guilty?

Pip despairs of his “condition of mind”(134), knowing that he despises his place at Joe’s side even though the man has forever been good to him. He says that

his way of looking at things have changed

, which is why he is no longer happy with his circumstance; it is this change in perspective that makes him feel guilty.

What does Pip ask the convict if he is going to do with the food Pip brings him?

Magwitch, Provis and the convict are names for the same person. Pip first stumbles upon the convict when he is visiting his parents’ gravestones. At first, the convict threatens to cut Pip’s throat and eat his face. He changes his mind, and instead asks Pip to bring him

some food and a file to remove his leg irons

.

Why did Pip feel guilty even after the convict was taken away?

Pip’s sense of guilt has an adverse effect on his relationship with Joe in these early chapters. Joe has always been very good to him but Pip still feels quite unable to confide in him. … Pip feels even

more guilty as he has to steal a file belonging to Joe, at the convict’s request

.

Why did Pip say also Georgiana?

Answer:

because Pip had seen that inscripted on his mother’s grave.

Why did Pip act as he did?

On the one hand, Pip has

a deep desire to improve himself and attain any possible advancement

, whether educational, moral, or social. … When Pip becomes a gentleman, for example, he immediately begins to act as he thinks a gentleman is supposed to act, which leads him to treat Joe and Biddy snobbishly and coldly.

How does the convict scare Pip out of his wits?

The first thing the convict does is

grab Pip by the chin and force his head up

, which made Pip fear that he would slit the boy’s throat. Then, the man lifts and flips Pip to empty his pockets and take anything of use or value.

What was Pip’s first sense of guilt?

Pip’s internalization of guilt is expressed in

his reaction to the assault on his sister

. He agrees to participate in Wopsle’s reading of The Tragedy of George Barnwell, in which an apprentice murders his uncle; Pip is, of course, now an apprentice.

Why does Joe give Pip more gravy during dinner?

Pip stole food and the objects that the convict wanted him to steal from his sister and her husband. Joe gives Pip more gravy to

comfort Pip because grown adults are picking him on about his gender and his gratitude for being raised by his sister

.

How does Pip feel throughout the novel Great Expectations?

From the earliest scenes in the novel, Pip describes in

exquisite detail the guilt he feels over various events and circumstances in his life

. Some things, such as stealing a file and food for the escaped convict he feels justifiably guilty about.

Which food did Pip steal for the convict?

Very early the next morning, Pip sneaks down to the pantry, where he steals some brandy (mistakenly refilling the bottle with tar-water, though we do not learn this until Chapter 4 ) and

a pork pie

for the convict. He then sneaks to Joe’s smithy, where he steals a file.

Who does Pip live with?

Pip is a young orphan who lives with his sister (known as Mrs Joe) and her husband,

Joe Gargery

, the strong but gentle blacksmith. As Pip visits his parents’ graves he has a terrifying meeting with Magwitch an escaped convict.

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