Pip
“…I felt fearfully sensible of the great convenience that the Hulks were handy for me. I was clearly on my way there. I had begun by asking questions, and I was going to rob Mrs. Joe.”
In the first five chapters of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, we meet a young boy named Pip. He is an orphan and lives with his sister Mrs. Joe and her husband Joe. While visiting his parents' graves, he meets a runaway convict that threatens to kill him. The only way that he will not die is that if he brings him food and a file. Pip, being a young boy, is of course scared and steals the food and file out of fear. Young children tend to act out of fear. If they are threatened, even if the threaten is false, they are still scared because they have young minds and they aren't yet able to detect false threats. This is why Pip stole the food and the file becuase he was scared that he was going to have his heart and liver removed from his body. He acted out of fear, as he has in the first chapters of Charles Dickens work Great Expectations.
This quote is found right after Pip agrees to steal the food and file from his sister and husband. He is walking through the marshes when he spots the Hulks, which is a jail and where the escaped convict used to reside. He is thinking to himself that he deserves to go there becuase he is about to steal food and a file from his family. He believed that he was going to get caught and shipped away there. Pip is still scared about the task that he has in front of him, and he feels that his days as a little boy growing up with his sister and Joe are soon to be over. He knows what he is about to do is wrong, but he feels that his life is at stake and that the only way to survive is to bring him what he needs.
