Pip has changed since the beginning of Great Expectations. When the story first starts, Pip is frightened and he is quick to listen to what the man tells him to do. In his narrations, Pip even describes that the man made him feel, ” a greater sense of helplessness and danger.” This shows how Pip has developed in a way that almost creates a sense of fearlessness. Later on in the novel, Pip does not hesitate to find the man. Although he is never noticed by the man, Pip does not really try to hide from him. Overall, Pip is becoming less childlike and less fearful.

I have a prediction that Pip will grow up throughout the novel and we will see his development along with the prisoner. As Pip grows, he could very well become a ‘hulk’ and be friends with the convict, or he could grow to be a solider. Pip does steal in the beginning of the novel to help out his convict, but it seems that he is drawing away from that path now. Also, the man will probably figure out that Pip aided in finding him. When the man finds out about Pip, he will be violent. This is because at the beginning of the novel he is violent with Pip and tells him to never, “dare to make a sign concerning your having seen such a person.”  Pip also mentions this later on, and it might be a way of Dickens’ foreshadowing.