Great Expectations Rough Draft

Pip was never a child. He was treated harshly from before he could remember, his sister often beat him. He had one friend, one person who he looked up to and admired. Joe, Joe was Pip’s best friend. He was a great model for Pip if only Pip would act like him. In the Book “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens the main character was a child who had not had a childhood.

“We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at a quiet times when i sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that i was looking up to Joe in my heart.” (Chapter 7). Pip starts out the book as the child who has not had a childhood. Pip is still young at this point in the book, and he is already thinking about things no normal child would think about. Mrs. Joe is a mean women and is also Pip’s older sister. Joe counteracts this harsh treatment with being pacific. Pip also is thinking about things way past his age; when he talks about how he and Joe were equals this surprised me because Joe is an adult and Pip’s father figure. I have never known a child to think he is equal to his father.

Joe is a good man through the book, he does not challenge Mrs. Joe because he was abused by his father and does not want the same fate for Pip. He is honest and ties to impart that to Pip. He tells Pip “If you can’t get to be uncommon through going straight, you’ll never get to do it through going crooked.” (Chapter 9). Pip was told this after he lied about Mis H’s. But Pip does not agree with Joe. He convinces himself that he lied because he did not want to be misunderstood. This is where Pip lost respect in the eyes of the reader. This lie was over the top and it hurt Pip and Joe’s relationship. After Pip realized that he was coarse and common he started to pull away from Joe. (Quote #3) Joe did not take offence and actually tried to make Pip like him by telling Pip he was a scholar. Pip also starts