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Pip Pirrip, the narrator of Great Expectations, lives on the marshes with his sister and brother-in-law, Joe Gargery, who is the village blacksmith, as his parents and other relations are all dead. One day when the seven-year-old Pip visits the churchyard where his parents and brothers are buried, an escaped convict seizes him, and threatens him with terrible consequences unless Pip gets him a file and some food, which the terrified boy steals from his sister and brother-in-law. Though the escaped convict is soon recaptured, Pip never forgets this early alarm or the way it made him steal from and deceive Joe and his sister.
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© 1985 Dennis Butts
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Butts, D. (1985). Summaries and Critical Commentary. In: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Macmillan Master Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07478-5_2
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