Great Expectations Questions

Questions:
1. What is the relationship between Pip and the narrator?
2. What is the difference of Pip as a character and Pip as a narrator?
3. How did he acquire the name Pip?
4. What similarities does Pip have to Charles Dickens?
5. Who does Pip live with?
6. Why was Pip in the cemetery?
7. What did the man in the graveyard request Pip to bring him?
8. How does Pip emphasize how his sister brought him up?
9. What does Joe Gargery do for a living?
10. How would Pip describe his sister and brother-in-law?

Answers:
1. They are the same person.
2. The story is about Pip’s life and him growing up, Pip as a narrator is a result of what happened through out his life, or what is happening to Pip in the story.
3. His father’s family name is Pirrip, and his Christian name is Philip so he called himself Pip.
4. They both grew up poor and had to support their families.
5. He lives with his sister and her husband Joe Gargery.
6. He was visiting his mother and fathers graves.
7. A file and wittles
8. He says she brought him up “by hand”
9. He is a black smith.
10. Pip’s sister is mean and beats him. On the other hand, Joe Gargery loves Pip as if he were his own son and they have a much better relationship then the one Pip has with his actual blood sister.