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How Does The Pork Pie Relate To Pip's Suicide
Pip’s convicts’ confession of stealing the pork pie created doubt within Pip himself in various ways. In the beginning of the story, Pip stole whittles and the file from Mr. and Mrs. Joe’s house and delivered it to the escaped conflict as he requested. Shortly after he replaced the stolen wine with tar water, Mrs. Joe threw a party at her house where she invited distinctive people. Towards the end of the party, Mrs. Joe head near the kitchen and was ready to pull out the pork pie that Pip had stolen. Knowing that he might suffer from diatribe once he get caught, Pip “uttered a shrill yell of terror… he released the leg of the table, and ran away for [his] life”(30). He ran far enough that he bumped into the sergeants, which leads us to

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