Parenthood

"We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart." (56)

As I child, Pip was faced to grow up faster than other children his age. Having to grow up without his real parents, Pip was forced to face struggles that others would never have to deal with. Being raised by his sister and brother-in-law, he did not get as much loving as he would of from a mother and father. However, Joe, Pip's brother-in-law, worked to give Pip the attention and loving that he deserved as a child. Charles Dickens shows that despite Pip's mood swings and immaturity, Joe always stayed loyal to him, and may have been the only person who was always "true" to Pip.

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