How Does Pip Change Throughout The Novel

Everyone grows from a child to an adult. Everyone has different paces and of course different stories. The book The Great Expectations by Charles Dickens gives a good example of this life time development. Readers view Pip as one of the protagonist and an antagonist character at the same time. He naturally develops into his adulthood from his memorable childhood. The theme: growing up, affects the characters and the plot because Pip and the characters around change as he changes into a grown man. As the story opens up to readers, Pip is seen as a little, sneaky, orphan boy, who seeks for parents’ love that got buried under the ground a long time ago. As on page (1) Pip says, “At such a time, I found out for certain that this bleak place was the churchyard; that Philip Pirrip late of his parish, and Georgiana, his wife, were dead and buried here.” Pip is also seen brave and kind, he proves that to readers when he steals food from home, and brings it to the runaways convict. Because of his kind heart and
He never actually noticed he was poor and “common” but when he got compared to them, with Estella's “help”, his life got turned upside down. Right away he went to talk with the closest friend he had, and told him everything that bothered his heart. As on page (50) Pip says, “... she said I was common, and that I knew I was common, and that I wished I was not common.” From that moment, Pip felt bonded with common life and with the closest friend, and a father like Joe. He always wanted to be rich and have education, so one day he got offered to live like a gentleman while having great expectations in life. Of course Pip accepted the offer, and started living a new and easy life, which he will later regret. He lived like a gentleman on the outside, but on the inside he was still bonded with the life, where he grew up simple and