The last story Pip told me about his life was the last time he saw Provis alive. Over the past few days Pip visited him in the prison infirmary, reading to him sadly. Provis could not talk and everytime he took a breath pain shot through his body. When his trial came about it was over very quickly. This was because his crime was returning to Europe and it was impossible to say that he did not return. He was tried with many other men and women who committed the same crime. Many of them cried out in horror while others were shocked into silence. His sentence was death. However, he died ten days after being sentenced, right before his hanging was scheduled. Pip was at his deathbed when he told Provis in his final hour that his daughter was still alive. On the verge of tears, he told him that she became a beautiful young lady and he was in love with her. After hearing this news, Provis quietly passed away with a smile on his face. Pip's last words to him were, "Oh Lord, be merciful to him, a sinner."

The attempted plan to save Provis was told to me by Pip on his seventy-first birthday. The plan was for Pip, Herbert, and Startop to meet Provis at the side of the Thames river, getting there by row boat, stay the night in an inn near the sea, and then row out to meet a ship going back to Australia. This happened in perfect sequence with no problems until the end of the plan. Pip, Herbert, and Startop rowed right up to Provis after a few minutes of boating, landing at the side for the shortest of times. As soon as Provis entered the boat, he immediately professed his thankfulness for what Pip was dioing for him. Pip sheepishly replied that he knew what it was like to be free and didn't want to see him without that right. It took them until the end of the day for them to reach the inn. There, they were informed by the Jack that a four-oared galley landed with a stone two gallon jar for beer. They all went to sleep and woke up early to catch the boat. At 1:00, they all saw the smoke from the boat and rowed out to meet it. Suddenly, to Pip's dismay, the four-oared galley sailed out from under the bank and intercepted them. A man in the galley called out that they weretransporting a criminal that had returned from where he was banished and that they were going to aprehend the man known as Provis, or Abel Magwitch. They then rammed the rowboat into the path of the oncoming ship's paddles. The boat was destroyed and five men were knocked into the water: Pip, Provis, Herbert, Startop, and another man who turned out to be the other convict, Compeyson. Pip, Herbert, and Startop were hauled into the boat, but both the convicts went under. Provis survived with an injury to the head and chest and was immediately handcuffed when he was pulled aboard, but Compeyson did not (serves him righ, that traitor). Herbert and Startop were let off the boat to travel to London by land, while faithful Pip stayed by hurt Provis, very scared and concerned for Provis' and his own future.

Pip, now in his home town visiting Joe and Biddy, sent me a letter concerning more on Estella's parentage and background. After the fire at Miss Havisham's house. Herbert took Pip home and dressed his burns. While Pip was away, Herbert learned more about Provis and his background, which he told Pip when he woke up. He was married and had a child with a woman. He was cheating on his wife with another woman. This woman was found dead by means of throttling in a barn. The woman was tried and found not guilty (WOW, Molly is Provis's wife and Estella is his daughter). The night the wother woman was killed Provis's wife took their child, which was a girl, and told Provis that she would destroy the child so that he would never see it again. He never did see it again. Pip, thinking this story sounded extremely familiar, asked Herbert when this had happened. He replied that it had happened three or four years before Pip had met Provis in the churchyard, making the child about as old as him. Pip, very excited, then told Herbert what he had found out by combining everyone's stories together. That Provis was Estella's father!

Pip, now telling his tale right next to me, went to the business side of town, looking for a place to eat. Here, Mr. Jaggers met him and asked him if he would dine with himself (Mr. Jaggers) and Mr. Wemmick. Pip agreed to do so and went with Jaggers to fetch Wemmick. Once they had done so, they took a coach to Mr. Jaggers' house. There they ate dinner, with Jaggers' faithful servant Molly to wait on them. Wemmick delivered a letter from Miss Havisham to Pip, which stated that she wanted to talk to him about a proposition that he had made her on his past visit. Pip eagerly told them that he would leave first thing in the morning. The first item of gossip at the table was Estella and Bentley Drummle getting married. They drank a toast to Estella and left it at that. Meanwhile, Jaggers chastised Molly a few times for being slow and, as Pip watches her, he begins to see that she is Estella's mother. Molly doesn't look like her child, but her hands and eyes were the same (very unusual, that doesn't happen very often, I mean, who says, "You have your mother's hands"?). After dinner, Wemmick and Pip left together, at which time Pip began to ask questions about Molly and how she was tamed by Mr. Jaggers. Wemmick proceeded to tell Pip about how she was aquitted for murder of a large, strong woman ten years older than her, who was found dead in a barn. This large woman had had an affair with Molly's husband, which was why she was tried. However, when she was tried, she looked a lot less strong than she really was because her clothes were concealing her true figure. The only thing amiss were the backs of her hands, which were lacerated. Mr. Jaggers was her lawyer and proved that the lacerations were from brambles because traces of brambles were in her hands and pieces of her dress were on the brambles and therefore was aquitted. She also had a child, which was female, but she was said to have killed it. Pip, knowing this information was now positive that Estella was Molly's child, excused himself from Wemmick's presence and walked home, with this unusual development on his mind.

Pip was out for the day, but called me to tell the story of how he confessed his love for Estella. She had again travelled to Miss Havisham's house, and there she was, sitting right next to Miss Havisham and knitting. Pip proceded to tell them how he had found out who his patron was and that it was not Miss Havisham, as he expected. He also pointed out that it was not nice of Miss Havisham to lead him on to thinking that it was her, to which she cried out that she shouldn't have been nice(Jeese, why shouldn't she be nice? He was a small peasant boy with no future and wasn't nice to him. Greedy, sick old hag.). He also requested of Miss Havisham that she help Herbert with his debt because he and his father were so kind to Pip, and were great teachers (they definitely deserve any reward Pip wishes to give them. Pip, now feeling very desperate, then turns to Estella and reveals his profound love for her (idiot, you're getting way ahead of yourself dude). He protests that she can not fall in love with Bentley Drummle for the sole reason that he was a mean, stupid brute, and that Pip had loved her longer than Bentley did. She replied that she loved Drummle and that they were already going to be married. Pip, in tears now, pleaded with Estella to be his love and not Drummle's, but Estella politely refused (can't you see that my chum Pip is twice the man Bentley Drummle is!!! She's gonna end up like Miss Havisham!). Pip left for his house in tears, heart broken once again by Estella.

Pip is a great story teller, and out did all the other stories of his life with this one, where Pip meets Pconvict once again. Pconvict walked into Pip's home and pip asked if anyone was there. There was and this person came up and started talking to Pip (who is this freaky old dude). Pip finally recognized him as Pconvict right after he told Pip how bravely he had acted when he was a child. Pip, now kind of thinking," How does this stalker now where I live?", wants Pconvict out of the house as fast as possible because he didn't want to be seen with a former criminal. He is very nervous in this situation and acts very snobbish toward Pconvict. Pip found out that Pconvict was doing very well and was working as a sheep farmer in Australia. He was practically a celebrity in his job. Before Pconvict left, Pip asked him to stay for some hot water and rum, which he did. However, he treats the convict like trash. Pip even tells Pconvict to keep his hands off him when he goes to hug Pip in thanks (ungrateful, inconsiderate snob). Pip also informed Pconvict that he received his gift of two pounds from his messenger and wished to return the money. He paid Pconvict the money, but he, unusually, rolled the two pound notes up and set fire to them (what the heck are you doing, Pip is in debt, he needs all the extra cash he can get). He then began to ask how Pip came by his great expectations, who was his benefactor, and what land he was going to inherit, all of these things, Pip had no answer to. So Pconvict made a few guesses, that the amount of money Pip received when he came of age started with a five (creepy), that the name of his guardian was a lawyer by the name of Jaggers (stalker), and that he had found Pip's address by writing to Pip's good friend Wemmick (OMG!!! He's Pip's benefactor!!!). Pconvict, very excited, now exclaimed," I did it all! I'm your benefactor! I've made you a gentleman!" Pip is now reeling with shock. How could this convitct be his benefactor? It made no sense. But his explanation was right and he knew everything concerning his life as a gentleman! When he had made certain that Pconvict was his benefactor, Pip offered him Herbert's room because he wouldn't be back from his trip to Marseilles for a while. Pconvict then told Pip that they must be very cautious because his sentence was that he could never return to Europe and he would be put to death if caught there (idiot, why would you come back if you would be put to death?).
All of his money and property would also go to the government, leaving Pip with no inheritance (even worse, leaving the boy you worked to help so long with nothing if you were caught). When Pconvict had gone to bed, Pip sat down, completely draind, bewildered, and devastated. He had always thought that miss Havisham was his benefactor and that she had plans to get him and Estella together. He also felt horrible about how he left Joe and Biddy. The rest of the night, Pip jumped at every sound, afraid that someone would come in and find him housing a convict.

Pip is telling me the story of the first large bump in his life right now. This pot hole is the passing away of his sister (WOOOHOOO!!!! Sorry Pip). Anywho, Pip was stricken with grief and immediately sent a letter to Joe, giving him his condolences and informing him that he would be attending the funeral. When Pip arrived and met up with Joe, all Joe could say was, " Pip, old chap, you know'd her when she were a fine figure of a...". Joe was heartbroken and Pip truly felt bad for him for the first time. Mr. Pumblechook was also at the funeral. Unfortunately, he was only there for the food (fat pig). Pip, Joe, and all their other relatives formed a procession down the street to the graveyard with Pip's sister's dead body. She was laid right next to her parents and four brothers. Pip then promised Joe that, after his loss, he will visit him often. However, Biddy doesn't believe that he will because he is so busy with his own life in the city (is very right, Pip probably will, most likely, never visit him. Biddy also noticed Orlick hiding under a dark tree on the day Mrs. Joe died, as well as a few minutes after she was buried(stalker). Pip, with his sister dead and a vengeful, stalking journeyman on the loose, felt very sad at the end of the day, leaving him wishing his sister was still alive.