Phillip or Pip as everyone else calls him is an orphan. Pip was sent to live with his sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, who loves to bring Pip up by hand, and her husband Mr. Joe Gargery, who is a blacksmith. While Pip is at the graveyard where his parents are buried, a convict captures him; the convict gets Pip to bring him food and a file. When Pip returns the next day with the food …showed first 75 words of 981 total…

…showed last 75 words of 981 total…and fall into the river where Compeyson drowns and Magwitch is injured, imprisoned, and sentenced to death. Pip figures out that Magwitch is Estella's father and Pip sits with him in prison until he dies. Pip is arrested for not paying his debt, but Joe comes and pays off Pip's debt. Pip returns home, but leaves shortly after he arrives to work in Cairo with Herbert. In time Pip and Estella will probably get married.