Pip's Compassion

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In Charles Dickens' Great Expectations the reader can detect Pip becoming more compassionate. First, Pip finally becomes Joe's best friend again. Pip realizes he has been insolent to Joe. When Pip recognizes this, he repairs their friendship. Next, Pip is an ingrate towards Magwitch when he learns that he is his benefactor. Pip comes to terms with situation and decides to stop doubting and start embracing Magwitch. Pip is able to show his compassion through his thoughts: We had a doleful parting, and when I took my place by Magwitch's side, I felt that was my place henceforth while he lived. For now my repugnance to him had all melted away, and in the hunted, wounded, shackled creature who held my hand in his, I only saw a man who

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