When our boy Pip is strolling throughout the tombstones, he is apprehended by a strange man whom he identifies as a convict. The old man thoroughly scares the young Pip and sends him on the task to get him a file and vittles. While these things appear a simplistic wish, it is through Pip's completion of this that he first embarks on the path to becoming a gentleman, as it is Magwitch, or this convict, who will eventually sponsor Pip on his journey towards the upper class. While he obviously means nothing by this gesture, as he was simply acting out of fear, it does betray his then kind nature and this is recognized and perhaps blown out of proportions by Magwitch.
While it was out of fear that Pip acted, he still was still as polite to Magwitch as he would be with any adult. It is because of his care for the convict that he eventually gets his wish to be a gentleman, albeit without the sponsorship of Miss Havisham he really doesn't care about the money. This is one of the defining moments in the book, for if it had not been for Estella, he could have lived happily with the money that Magwitch gave him.
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