Pip's Unchanged Characteristic's in Great Expectations

At the beginning of the novel, Great Expectations, Pip was a young kid who did not know how to read the names on his parent’s tombstones. He was scared by a convict and believed that he would eat his liver if he did not do certain favors for him—retrieve food and a file. In the end, Pip is a grown man, and has matured a lot over the course of the novel. He started off poor, and then he received a vast sum of money from a benefactor. When Pip first met Estella he was a young boy who was intimated by her, but by the end of the book they are friends. Even though many of Pip’s characteristic’s changed overtime some stayed with him: nightmares, feeling of guilt and innocence, and love for Estella.
When Pip is young he does not know much about the world. He cannot read or write. The first scene of the book, Pip is in the graveyard looking at his mother and father’s tombstones and he cannot read the words that appear on them. The first feature that Pip had when he was...