Blog 1--Pip

“And then I looked at the stars and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.”

1Throughout his childhood, Pip is made to feel like a criminal and an ingrate among his sister and relatives. 2Aside from Joe, all the adults in his world consistently intimidate him, making him aware of loneliness, of being alone. 3In helping the criminal, he is aware that he is doing something wrong—stealing from his sister and uncle, but it is not just out of fear that he does it, it is also out of kind kinship to the criminal who is cold and alone and without pity. 4Pip sees himself in the criminal and throughout the first 5 chapters he cannot but think of the criminal. 5This quote betrays Pip’s awareness of a cold uncaring universe, and the fact that without other people, there is no hope. 6 Just as Joe is the one comfort to Pip, so Pip becomes the one aid to the convict. 7He can’t help but see his own fate in that of the convicts. 8He imagines both looking at the same stars, and neither can see any help coming from the stars (heaven). 9It is only in through the comfort of others that he can be saved.