Pip is an extraordinary person and a great friend to me. He was brought up by his sister, Mrs. Joe, because his parents died when he was a baby. His sister is a very mean person who treats him badly and who really used to get on my nerves when I would go over to play. She was always looking for something wrong in everything he does just so that she can beat him. Anyways, Pip told me how he got the biggest surprise of his life at age eight or nine, when he ran into an escaped convict after visiting his parents’ and brothers’ graves. This convict, in desperation, threatened to tell another convict to cut out Pip’s heart and liver if he didn’t go and get him some food and a file. Pip, being very young and thoroughly terrified out of his brains, didn’t realize that he didn’t really need to return to the convict because the convict wouldn’t have a way of finding out where Pip lived. Pip thought long and hard about stealing from his sister and her husband, Joe the blacksmith, although I wouldn’t of thought for a second about stealing from that witch he calls a sister. Now Joe is Pip’s best friend, second only to me, and is his brother in law. He protects Pip from his sister’s beatings whenever he has the opportunity. Joe is very kindhearted, handsome, and a little dim-witted, which is probably how he got stuck with a horrible wife like Mrs. Joe. Anywho, Pip, being my great and trustworthy friend, shows that he knows what is right and wrong by thinking about stealing the food and file instead of just doing it. He also shows that he has a conscience because he feels horrible that he “has” to steal from Joe and Mrs. Joe to “stay alive” after he chooses to steal the food and file. When he goes back to the marshes to deliver the food and the file to the convict he meets the other convict. When he meets this convict, he becomes frozen with fear for the sole reason that this is the convict who is supposed to cut his heart and liver out, otherwise he would have stood up to that mean old convict(or at least that's what I would have done). However, the convict makes a weak swipe at him and runs away. Pip finally finds who I will refer to as Pconvict, and delivers the food and file. He leaves Pconvict with the file and runs home as fast as he can, happy that he still has his heart and liver.