Pip - “…I felt fearfully sensible of the great convenience that the Hulks were handy for me. I was clearly on my way there. I had begun by asking questions, and I was going to rob Mrs. Joe.”
In Great Expectations, you meet the main character Pip. Pip is a young boy who's family is mostly dead expect his older sister, Mrs. Joe who "raised him by hand". When Pip is down in the graveyard he meets a convict that has escaped from the jail. This convict threatens Pip and tells him to bring him whittles, food, and a file so that he could get his ankle brace off. The convict tells him that if he doesn't bring him the stuff by the following day, there's another convict that will rip out his liver and eat it. Pip is immediately frightened and runs home from the graveyard. He says he's going to rob Mrs. Joe because he needs to get food for the convict, he plans on taking food from her. When Pip is home he stuffs bread down his pants at the dinner table while eating. When everyone is fast asleep, he goes down to the pantry and steels brandy, a pork pie, and other things. After steeling he immediately becomes guilty and is bothered by this for quite some time.
